46th Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival
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Oct 15-16, 9 am to 5 pm both days
The World Pumpkin Capital of Half Moon Bay celebrates its bountiful fall harvest and autumn splendor with a special display of gigantically enormous/heavyweight champion pumpkins, smashing entertainment with four stages of stellar live music, the home-spun Great Pumpkin Parade lead by retired San Francisco Giants great Rich Aurilia as honorary Grand Marshal, a bone-chilling Haunted House, boo-tiful harvest-inspired crafts, homestyle foods, expert pumpkin carver Farmer Mike sculpting monster pumpkins into amazing one-of-a-kind masterpieces, photos with the Goliath grand champion mega-gourd, pie-eating and costume contests, pumpkin carving for fun, the world's largest mosaic pumpkin sculpture that measures 12-feet long, 11-feet high and weighs 10,000 pounds by artist Peter Hazel, "Smashing Pumpkins: Battle of the Bands", the Comcast Take 5 Lounge with giant screen TV, ultra-thrilling zip-line, climbing wall, waterballerz, and bungee jump, tasty wines, pumpkin-infused ales, pumpkin-flavored artisanal cocktails, selfies and fun with the delightfully rotund, playful and mischievious Pumpkin Festival mascot "Gourdy", and the Sunday-only "Made on the Coast" local artists block with fine art and live music.
There's smashing entertainment lineup includes The California Cowboys, Caravanserai, The Megatones, Michael Furlong - A Tribute to Tom Petty, Andy Santana & The West Coast Playboys, Ticket To Ride, and Jim Stevens & Friends. The Ritz-Carlton Gazebo Stage will feature Wavelength - A Van Morrison Tribute, The Jim Moore Band, South City Blues Band, and the Stan Erhart Band, The Patrick Maier Duo, The Ahern/Cotruvo Project, Half Moon Bay High School Jazz Band, Chinese Melodrama, and Coastsiders, HeartStrings Music, Emerson, John Clarke, Bob Culbertson, Man In White, Bob at Large, The Singing Lizard, West Coast Ramblers, plus "Smashing Pumpkins: Battle of the Bands.
Free
Presented by Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee.