Entertainment Line-Up – 2011

2011 Banana Festival Entertainment Schedule*

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