Adams Avenue Street Fair: The Ultimate Musical Extravaganza

By Author: Albert Mitchell
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Normal Heights is situated in Central San Diego area and it was founded in the year 1906. It is very well known as a community that has reasonable prices for housing, good pubs, fine restaurants and shops for antique items and books. It has several attractions amongst which Adams Avenue Street Fair San Diego is the principal one. In fact, the place Adams Avenue after which its street fair is named, also passes through many other neighborhood communities including Kensington, Antique Row and even University Heights and has many businesses spread along their areas . There is an interesting fact about how Antique Row derived its name. The area of Adams Avenue which passes between Texas Street on West direction and Ohio Street on the east has a huge number of antique stores and thus it came to be known as Antique Row.

Every year, the Adams Avenue Street Fair San Diego which is also a free two day music festival, is celebrated during the last weekend of September. It is also known as South California’s biggest music festival. Adams Avenue Street Fair 2013 was celebrated ...
... on September 28-29. This street fair in Normal Heights region is slowly including even those people who have not known about this festival for more than three decades. The important part is that it takes the front lead as San Diego’s source of a varied festival of music and arts in the background of a street fair. If we want to know about a particular place then we have to visit the place and explore its various features and spots. A look at the major streets also gives a fair idea of the place. In the same way, as this Adams Avenue Street Fair 2013 is in the setting of a street, we can know about the locale and various kinds of markets of San Diego. An overall idea of San Diego can be got by participating in this street fair or by looking at its pictures.

The magnitude of the number of artists performing for this musical festival and its audience is simply overwhelming. For two consecutive days, 90 artists give musical performance for more than a million people, and with different musical genres comprising of folk music to Cajun to country to rock to blues in an authentic street setting in Normal Heights, a neighborhood community that is the most fashionable. The Adams Avenue Street Fair San Diego has seen popular music bands and artists that includes Strawberry Alarm Clock’s former Oingo Boingo guitarist Stever Bartek, The Paladins, Mojo Nixon, Skid Roper, Coco Montoya, Jack Tempchin and several musicians, songwriters and singers. Apart from the grand musical performance, this festival also has amazing attractions like four beer gardens, an exclusive area for having a taste of beers, giant carnival rides and over 300 vendors selling products of food, arts and craft throughout the venue.