Good weather with temperatures in the 70s and no rain is forecast for this weekend’s Ceres Street Faire, a two-day affair in downtown Ceres.
The annual event will include the activities Faire goers have come to expect: street vendors selling their goods, arts and crafts, commercial and information booths, non-profit Ceres groups selling food and drink, local entertainment on two stages, a Saturday classic car show, a Sunday low rider show, and fun activities for kids to do in Whitmore Park.
The weekend event will kick off at 10 a.m. with a Saturday car show on Fourth Street between Magnolia and North streets. The car show will be over by 3 p.m. but the faire continues until 6 p.m.
The Faire resumes on Sunday, May 3 at 10 a.m. with the low rider car show and ends at 5 p.m.
“We’re working with local classic car collectors as well as members of the low rider classic car community to ensure that we have great representation on both days,” said Street Faire Committee publicist Lisa Mantarro Moore.
Last year the Street Faire attracted 135 car entries which spilled over from Fourth Street onto the adjacent Community Center parking lot.
“We have amazing people in and around our community who put a lot of TLC in their vehicles and like to share that with us and it’s going to be fun.”
Car, truck and motorcycle owners can sign up for entries online at ceresstreetfaire.org. Pre-registration is $25 while registration that Saturday is $35. Show registration is from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday with awards at 3 p.m.
The Ceres Lions Club will be among the non-profit groups selling food at the event, in the Lions’ case being their popular barbecued beef tri-tip for sandwiches. A full army of other service clubs and youth groups will also be selling food items along Third Street on both days.
In Whitmore Park pony rides will be offered as well as carnival rides, including a giant slide. This year an additional kid zone area will be set up on Lawrence Street, mostly for families to give their kids something to do while the adults enjoy the live music acts.
The Street Faire entertainment line-up includes five bands – which are California Outlaws, Lavon & the Train Wreck and Emerson Biggens, all on Saturday; and Night Train and Ceres’ own country singer Greg Scudder on Sunday.
Ceres Karate students will be putting on karate demonstrations at various times and Steps Dance Studio dancers will be performing.
“We have a robust number of commercial and arts and crafts booths that we have had to create more space to accommodate the response that we’ve received from vendors.”
The Ceres Street Faire Committee, led by Chairman Bret Durossette, has been meeting since January to plan the event.
