Tag: garlic festival

Garlic Festival President Hugh Davis thrust his fist in the air after he lit the first stove pilot on Gourmet Alley, whipping the crowd into a frenzy of cheers and whistles. Ladles of garlic and calamari lit up in flames on cast iron pans while volunteers danced to pulsing hip-hop beats.

Whether you enjoy your garlic fries with beer, wine, sangria or just a classic Pepsi – there’s a local organization happy to take your drink tickets. The money raised goes to help scholarships and community activities over the next year. Cheers!

When a young, new-to-Gilroy Hugh Davis volunteered to pour beer at the Garlic Festival's beer garden 25 summers ago, he had a blast, and knew right away he’d be hooked for life. To the Garlic Festival, that is.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Everything you need to know to make the most of Gilroy’s stinkin’ rose extravaganza

Gilroy Garlic Festival-goers have one more thing to be happy about besides Pepper Steak Sandwiches, garlic-scented bubbles or a 250-foot-long zip line: Afternoon temperatures this weekend should be about 10 degrees cooler than seasonal averages, according to forecaster Bob Benjamin with the National Weather Service in Monterey.

In light of the fast-approaching Gilroy Garlic Festival July 27, 28 and 29 in Christmas Hill Park, the Gilroy Rotary Club would like to extend a friendly reminder about their bone marrow donor registry booth that will be set up next to the Rotary's wine tasting pavilion on the ranch side of Christmas Hill Park. 

Classic cars and hot rod engines roared throughout downtown Gilroy Saturday afternoon as the 11th annual Garlic City Fun Run Car Show came cruising through town.

In preparing for more than 100,000 visitors to descend on the Garlic Capital for three days of eating, dancing and wearing funny garlic hats, the minutiae associated with executing an event of this magnitude is a story unto itself.

The same creative character partially responsible for the mystical-looking 48-by-25-foot garlic mural inscribed on the back cement wall of the 9Lives Club in downtown Gilroy is at it again – only this time he’s got a posse.