28th Annual Italian Family Festa: Street Festival in Willow Glen (San Jose)
Two-day street fair with grape stomping, folk dancing and Dick Contino The Accordion Whiz
| Saturday, September 27 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
| Sunday, September 28 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Come to Downtown Willow Glen for the the 2008 Italian American Heritage Foundation’s Italian Family Festa. The popular Italian Family Festa is the oldest and largest event of its kind on the West Coast. The Festa has an Italian Village atmosphere, food, costumes, art and photo exhibits, games, and musical entertainment. Featured at our Festa is the pony-drawn San Jose Italian Festa Cart which is covered with paintings and sculpture of San Jose history. The Festival also includes a grape-stomping contest, children’s games, a Tarantella contest, dancing, Pasquale, Italica, Folk Dancers, Dick Contino The Accordion Whiz (pictured) and more.











