New spring festival brings Wild West back to SJB
A new festival in San Juan Bautista will bring back a taste of
the Old West. The
”
Rootin’, Tootin’, Boot Scootin’ Wild West Show
”
will be April 21 and 22. The event will feature more than 100
arts and crafts vendors, food booths and two crazy contests.
New spring festival brings Wild West back to SJB
A new festival in San Juan Bautista will bring back a taste of the Old West. The “Rootin’, Tootin’, Boot Scootin’ Wild West Show” will be April 21 and 22. The event will feature more than 100 arts and crafts vendors, food booths and two crazy contests.
The first contest officially started in January and has nearly a dozen rules. Participants in the San Juan Bautista Whiskerino contest signed up Jan. 31 to grow out grizzly beards during the months leading up to the festival.
Some of the rules for the contest include starting off with a clean palette.
According to the rules, “some hair can remain including eyebrows, eyelashes, sideburns (trimmed at ear lobe), nose hair, ear hair and hair not generally seen when properly found in public.”
The whiskerino contest is a fundraiser for the San Juan Bautista Community Foundation and “fines” will start at $1 for violations, such as shaving more than 50 percent of the beard before the contest is completed.
For those not able or willing to grow a beard, there will be a “Ladies Crazy Western Hat” contest cosponsored by Mrs. B’s Z-Place and the City of San Juan Bautista. Prizes will be given for the craziest, zaniest and wildest hats. Unlike the whiskerino contest, there is only one rule for the hat contest – the decorated hat must be a western hat. For those without a hat, Mrs. B has ordered a handful of inexpensive hats to be purchased for the contest.
The event will also feature a rumored gunfight and bank robberies, black powder shooting demonstrations and plenty of horses.
For more information visit www.san-juan-bautista.ca.us and click on the event’s page.
