Get all set in order to shuck plus swallow in the 21st total Arcata Main Street's Oyster Festival from 10 a.m. for you to 5:30 p.m. on June 18, 2011 with the Arcata Plaza. The Oyster Festival most important ones as well as celebrates this podgy as well as special Kumamoto oyster from Humboldt plus Arcata bays by integrating of all-you-can-eat barbecued oysters as well as award-winning, community microbrews from Lost Coast Brewing Company and Mad River Brewing Company.
In add-on into the grilled mollusks and frosty beverages, the presentation additionally attributes activities by S.F. old-school funk piece Vinyl; Humboldt's personal Tom Petty tribute band, Full Moon Fever; plus community reggae-roots band Woven Roots. If that was not plenty of in order to sketch you to the particular traditional plaza on June 18, the particular celebration will function some sort of rock-climbing walls and mechanised bull out of North Coast Adventure Centers and definately will be located in that Pacific Outfitters car parking lot.
In between the particular eating, sipping plus slurping, KWPT 100.3 FM &102.7 FM "The Point" exposes your Shuck & Swallow competition, wherever four-time defending winners Aidan Semingson (the shucker) and Conor Eckholm (the swallower) try to acquire their fourth-straight gold Shuck & Swallow belt. This desire workforce could shuck and also take greater than 35 raw oysters in all 5 minutes and is usually in search of some ideal challengers that year.
The occurrence also features the Oyster Calling competition hosted simply by one of several almost all well known encounters within Humboldt County television, Dave Silverbrand. Participants attempt to yell away precisely what an oyster telephone might be understood as if the oyster have been for you to ask most of his friends to enroll in him or her in the Oyster Festival. There's as well an oyster-food judging contest , sweepstakes exactly where the winners will certainly get a particular honour from recycled glass machines Fire & Light. A cell involving hand-picked judges will probably obtain chance to preferences each of the raw oyster word options on Friday night, prior to the event from Jacoby's Storehouse. This year, that nutrition oyster champions are going to be announced at 12:30 p.m., thus function goers will have the ability to attempt these types of award-winning oysters through festival.
If you might be bringing the entire family, some sort of engage in area to get the little ones shall be concerning Eighth as well as F & G streets. We'll have waxtivities, go up making in addition to Shantaram the actual magician.
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