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The 2011 Banana Festival is excited to bring you a wide range of talent and entertainment for the second year in a row. Here are the stage acts you can enjoy while tasting banana treats and drinks.

Saturday Schedule – Main Stage

10:00am: Welcome / Community Prayer – Rev Francione
10:15am: Grant High School Drum line
11:00 am: Smashed Chef Challenge -Live Cooking Competition
12:30pm: Illusion Andina – Equadorian Musicians
1:00 pm: Cap City Action Sports Team - Stunt Bikes
1:45pm: Banana Split Eating Contest
2:00pm: Tina B & The Soul Line Dancers  - Banana Line Dancing
2:30pm: Awards Ceremony – (Lee Perkins, Andrea Gomez, Juan McKnight/Local Union 185 and Ecuadorian farm workers)
3:00pm: Banana Stroll Catwalk Fashion Show - Presented by International School of Design and Technology
4:00pm: Umoja African Dance
4:30pm: Grant High School Drum Line
5:00pm: Dinorah Curkendall – Solo Artist
6:00pm: Clarence Van Hook – Blues Guitarist
6:20pm: Fasion Jackson – Jazz Saxophone
6:45pm: Babs Johnson Gang – Rock N Roll

Sunday Schedule – Main Stage

10:00 am: DJ Mix
10:30 am: Limbo (Adult Games)
11:00am: Smashed Chef Challenge – Live Cooking Competition
12:30pm: Gorgenia’s Banana Fashion Show
1:00pm: Sinag-Tala Theater Ensemble – Filipino-American theater company.
2:00pm: Samoria Lamuse as Josephine Baker
2:15pm: Yami Lee and Kong Yang  – Million Butterflies and Halo
2:40pm: Umoja African Dance
3:00pm: Samba Da Terra-  Brazilian Samba Group
3:30pm: Phoenix Drum & Dance
4:00pm: Three In One – Old School/ Oldies

Kids Corner

Saturday Schedule – Stage 2

10:00am: Banana Story Telling
11:00am: Banana Ice Cream Contest
11:30am: Little Mr. and Miss. Banana Beauty Pageant
1:00pm: Crane Theater Show
2:00pm: Disc Dogs of the Golden Gate – Aerial Acrobatics Dog Show
3:00pm: International Banana Folktales
3:30pm: Banana Dancing/Music (Star Sports and Education)
4:00pm: Kids Limbo Games
4:30pm: Banana Ice Cream contest
5:30 pm: The Diplomats Dance Group
6:00pm: Banana Karaoke
6:30pm: Group Art Project

Sunday Schedule – Stage 2

10:30am: Kids Limbo Games
11:00am: Kids Banana Eating Contest
12:00pm: Enchanted Forrest Magic Show
1:00pm: Recyclable Fashion Show Burbank High School
1:30pm: SoPhresh Break Dance Group
2:00pm: Phoenix Community Multicultural Children Choir
3:00pm: Stanley Girls Performance Group
3:30pm: Kids Banana Eating Contest
4:00pm: Banana Karaoke

*Schedule is subject to change and alterations.

Click on the links for videos and interviews on YouTube

American Blues by Clarence Van Hook

Filipino Dances by Sinag-Tala Theater and Performing Arts

Chinese-American Singers Yami Lee and Kong Yang

Ecuadorian Music and Dance by Ilusion Andina

Brazillian Samba by Samba Da Terra

African Music and Dance by Umoja

See you at the festival!

The Banana Festival, Pride of Laguna Creek Lions, and Mulligan’s Cafe Presents…

The 2011 Banana Pancake Breakfast

Saturday August 13th from 7-11 AM @ Mulligans Cafe

Come out and try Chef Richard Pannell’s Banana Foster Pancakes! Proceeds will support the Sojourner Truth Multicultural Art Museum as part of the 2^nd Annual Banana Festival.

Pancakes for only $3.00

Plain pancakes will be available and you can make it a complete meal with breakfast sausage, bacon and eggs available for an additional cost

Mulligan’s Cafe

1701 Sutterville Road, Sacramento, CA

At the William Land Golf Course

Saturday, August 13, 2011

7:00 am – 11:00 am

Pride of Laguna Creek Lions