The Best Bay Area Bands Will Blow the Barn Doors at Half Moon Bay’s Pumpkinpalooza
Victoria George and The High Lonesome, Featprints, Terrie Odabi Ensemble, Robby James and the Streets of Bakersfield, Haulin' Oats, and Samba Dá Headline Smashingly Awesome Music Lineup
It’s that special time of year when throngs of pumpkin fans gather in Half Moon Bay to dance and frolic in the ultimate mecca of gourd greatness. In keeping with the festival’s big reputation, four stages of sensational entertainment for all ages will transform Half Moon Bay into the Bay’s entertainment hotspot for a weekend during the city’s monster Pumpkinpalooza—the Art & Pumpkin Festival, October 19-20. The Bay Area’s most popular bands are lined up to make this the best pumpkin fest yet with their crowd-pleasing country, rock, reggae, dance hits, jazz favorites and more. (Complete schedule below.)
Amazing Circus Stunts & Award-Winning Children’s Performer Headline the Safeway Family Stage
Bob At Large
Eva Cassel
A popular and signature attraction at Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival, the Safeway Family Stage will showcase an all-star lineup of performing artists at this year’s festival, October 19-20.
Sensational Lineup Announced for the “Made on the Coast” Music Stage Presented by Half Moon Bay Brewing Company
Midnight WatchThe “Made on the Coast” (MOTC) Artists' Group, a subcommittee of the Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee, presents its lineup of musicians for the "Made on the Coast Music Stage", part of Locals' Block at the Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival.
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On the Giant Screen in the Xfinity Take 5 Lounge
It has become a festival staple so football and baseball fans will be pumped to learn the Xfinity Take 5 Lounge is returning to this year’s Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival, October 19-20 from 9 am to 5 pm on historic Main Street.
Audience Participation Drives the Pie Eating Contests
There is plenty to see and do at Half Moon Bay’s world-famous Art & Pumpkin Festival, October 19-20, but nothing gets you up close and personal to the Great Gourd as the Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest. The pie eating contests take place in the Bank of America Family Fun Zone, located in the Bank of America parking lot, 620 Main Street in Half Moon Bay.
Calling All Ghosts, Goblins and Spooks for Pumpkin Festival Costume Contest
The Pumpkin Festival Costume Contest is Sponsored by Maleficent: Mistress of Evil – In Theaters October 18!
In Disney’s “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” a sequel to the 2014 global box office hit, Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies and dark new forces at play.
Stop by the Maleficent: Mistress of Evil wing wall at the Costume Contest, take a selfie and share it on social media! Plus Costume Contest winners will receive tickets to see the movie!
Everyone from tiny tots to ghoulish grandmas and grandpas will get a chance to show of their best Halloween attire at the Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival Costume Contest. The contest will take place at 10 a.m. on Saturday, October 19, at the Cunha Intermediate School parking lot located at Correas and Church Streets.
