This weekend
’s the time to get a Taste of Morgan Hill. More than 55,000
folks are expected to throng downtown today and Sunday, looking for
good music, good food and drink, good art and craft and an
all-around good time.
This weekend’s the time to get a Taste of Morgan Hill.
More than 55,000 folks are expected to throng downtown today and Sunday, looking for good music, good food and drink, good art and craft and an all-around good time. They won’t be disappointed and the weather report is as good as it gets.
Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to showcase what the town has to offer, visitors will enjoy live bands on two stages, almost nonstop from 10am to 6pm both days.
Los High Tops, the local and generous Surfabilly sensation, will anchor the Third Street Stage from 4:15pm on Saturday while the Corvairs hold down the Second Street Stage.
On Sunday The John Garcia Blues Band at Third Street and Fast Lane Band at Second wrap up the weekend of music.
The band Interstate will kick off Sunday, 10-11am on the Second Street Stage, with an hour of fine rock and roll, not the 1940s blues style mistakenly mentioned in the special Taste of MH program in Tuesday’s Times.
The Kids Zone, near Main Avenue, will feature ever-changing entertainers, activities and guaranteed fun for the little ones.
Besides taking a peek at dozens of food stands, beer, wine and soft drink tents and crafts galore, visitors will have a chance to get serious and learn how to use the new touchscreen voting machines and meet some candidates.
The Morgan Hill Times’ booth, facing east between East Third and East Fourth streets, will host two days of candidates for an hour each. On Saturday most of those running for Morgan Hill School board will anchor the booth, handing out flyers, answering questions and shaking hands. On Sunday, candidates for mayor and city council (plus one school board candidate who couldn’t make it Saturday, will join the routine.
The Registrar of Voters will demonstrate the new touchscreen voting machines, 10-4 Saturday and Sunday at the Times booth. Voter registration forms and applications for absentee ballots will be available.
Several political parties will have booths where candidates for Congress, state Assembly and state Senate will appear.
Following up on last year’s successful quilt show, the Community Center at Monterey Road and Dunne Avenue will be entirely taken over by every manner of quilt – a show for adults and kids.
On the way to the quilt show, visitors can check out hundreds of classic and exotic cars in the ever popular car show.
MH Art Guild on the west side of Monterey between West Third and West Fourth streets, will showcase artists at work and most downtown businesses will have their doors open.
Newest among them is including the new Euro- coffee and wine bar, ‘Caffee, Kaffee, Vin’ in the historic 1905 Votaw Building at East Second and Monterey. Cinda Meister and Brad Jones, owners of BookSmart, Thinker Toys and The Love Bug, also downtown, have taken over the space and are working furiously to get it open in time for Taste visitors. Coffee first along with pastries and sandwiches, they say; the wine bar will come later.
Looking ahead, visitors to the Independence Day, Inc. booth can also pick up tickets to the Family Franken Fest and a Monster Bash, to be held Oct. 30 by IDI. The annual party raises funds for the July Fourth activities it offers free to Morgan Hill each year.
A map and complete music schedule and details about the Taste can be found in the Morgan Hill Times edition from Tuesday, Sept. 21, and on the Chamber website, www.morganhill.org/
