California WorldFest was held at the Nevada county fairgrounds. It was a Mecca of music from all…read moreover the world and very unique foods. If you are gluten free, vegan or vegetarian this is a great festival for you! We tried Chinese food, gluten free pizza and Revive kombucha. The lime flavored was amazing!

My review is based on my ticket purchasing/customer service (or lack thereof) experience with HSMF…read moreand not about the festival experience since I never had the chance to attend. I bought tickets for my husband as a 2019 Christmas gift, for the 2020 show. Then Covid hit and they postponed the 2020 show, as did everyone else, and I completely understood. We were so excited for the rescheduled festival in 2021. Then they "postponed" that show too, even though by that point everything had re-opened and all the other festivals and shows were on. I don't know about you, but I've never heard of a 2-year "postponement" and wish we could just call it what it is. Regardless, we planned to finally attend in 2022. And then I found out my brother picked the same weekend to get married, on the east coast. He wasn't even engaged at the time the original event was scheduled to have happened, so I had no way of knowing about this conflict 2 years down the road, and of course the *very* small window to receive a refund had already passed. I am not sure how HSMF got away with offering such a narrow window for 2020 refunds, and so early on (more than a year before the rescheduled show), but they offered zero help or support when I reached out to them about this issue. They informed me I would have to join their Facebook group to sell my tickets since they wouldn't refund me themselves. I joined the group, posted the tickets, and my post was removed so it was not a feasible means of resale. Then I got an email that HSMF was soon to be selling tickets for 2022, so I once again reached out to them and asked very kindly if they could please accept a return on my tickets due to the unprecedented TWO YEAR postponement, a family wedding that I cannot miss, and the fact that they'd be selling these tickets later the same week anyway- why not sell mine too?! But nobody even had the decency to respond to me. It takes a special kind of *insert favorite word for a mean person* to take over $600 from someone during a pandemic, "postpone" the event for two YEARS, not make an exception for such extenuating circumstances, and not even have the decency to reply. Just pocketing the money of music fans without offering any type of genuine humane support or understanding. Needless to say, going forward I will not be supporting a festival that operates in such a way. We've been to music festivals all over the country and never had a negative experience, so there's plenty of good music and festivals out there where people are treated right. Buyer beware!

My friend Jim co-founded this festival many, many moons ago, when I was a youngster. I used to help…read moreout backstage, once carrying two of Steve Kimock's legendary guitars off stage after an epic performance in somewhat cold weather. I remember Steve saying, "It's like playing chickens out there." At the time that made perfect sense. If memory serves, this was the first time a lot of us tried Sierra Nevada beer (back then a sibling on the emerging craft beer scene) and the entire experience was warm and friendly. I never made it back between the early 90s until this year. I am so happy I decided to finally return. The festival has changed locations (a couple of times since) and become a lot bigger and organized. There are scores of bands, too many to see as four or five are playing at once on the different stages, but it is easy enough to walk around and catch a few songs of each. If it's hot, there is a swimming pool $8, or so. And the camping is fun. Pulling in at the beginning can be a bit stressful in sorting out your space, but once the dust settles, it's all dandy. Folks say this is a music festival for musicians, and I agree. But of course all are welcome. I hope to return again.

Call me biased but I have helped out/volunteered with the Redding fire festival since I was 14…read moreyears old I now help run the festival and I cannot believe how much we have grown over the years. We now do our festival at Anderson Fairgrounds. We started off in Caldwell Park that should give you an idea on how much we have grown over the years. We try to make the festival, fun and enjoyable for all ages, we offer multiple different vendors to check out durning the day. We also have multiple different fire and circus acts that we offer in the evening. A lot of which most have actually reached out to us, wanting to join our festival. We make sure to have all safety protocols for our fire dancers we have multiple volunteers for these acts with different safety measures to put out any accidents that may happen on stage. We take our performers and the public's safety very seriously especially after the Carr fire. We keep our festivals professional and fun for all ages.

Hi, this is a great professional Fire Festival. Live performers, bands, fire dancers-some…read moreperformers walked the festival interacting with everyone , others were on stage. The festival offers something for everyone between the entertainers to vendors of great foods and a wide variety of art and unique items. You should come early to stroll the festival, have some food and stay to watch the night performances of fire dancers. It's a great festival. We have sold (been an artistic vendor) for two fire festivals here and each year gets better and better. Everyone should go once to experience a great unique adventure. It's great for families and well worth spending a day having fun.

I don't know how you screw up catfish or drawdads, with flying colors, but the entire event was…read morejacked as well. Any event this (Babs) company is hosting, should be avoided. The amount of food was only about half of what they claimed it would be. And nobody looked like they have ever worked food before. Tons of standing around and on their phones. 0 professionalism.

This was the most pathetically run event I have ever been to. There was virtually nothing crawdad…read morerelated to this festival other than one vendor who sold out, and even when he did have some, it was over a two hour wait just to get them. Parking was atrocious and they had absolutely no traffic flow plan. It was a disaster for people trying to get in with people waiting upwards of 2 to 4 hours in traffic. The event coordinator should be refunding people their money. Hopefully somebody will be filing a lawsuit against this company because it was nothing more than a scam.

So I have visited a few of these done in numerous areas. I've been to the Graegle, Reno Pumpkin,…read moreand Truckee 4th of July events. There are pros and cons Pros and cons together: The do tend to bring in artists from the general area BUT (also con) some come from as far away as the Bay Area so "Local" is a stretch Some booths are very reasonable in pricing for what is being sold while others are clearly not in touch with both prices and/or quality Some booths are truly crafts! I mean the dried flower demon head??? So cool, unique, and well done! Unique fall/Halloween inspired ceramics? Nice! Definitely what I consider worthy of a craft fair! But again, other booths were selling things not even crafty. Like keychains that looked like reject temu/wish items. I wasn't paying $10 for a crappy keychain! Typically, there's a decent variety but at my most recent visit to the one in Reno, there had to be at least 7 or 8 booths selling crochet stuffed animals and it appears more than half of them were using the same patterns. There are food options, but there is honestly nothing I remember standing out at any of these. The recent pumpkin fair was somewhat chaotic with no signage, no help in finding parking, no easily found disability accessible parking, and no actually planned pay out. Food vendors were kinda all over. There was a rock climbing wall and a mechanical bull for some reason. It just felt chaotic. Overall their fairs are about 3 stars. You'll definitely find some great vendors but you need to search. Parking is typically a free for all. Accessibility is difficult for those with mobility issues. Food vendors are meh and there are typically no places to sit and eat. If you happen to be around for one, go check it out but definitely don't make it your day.

7/17/2022 Just found…read moreout a few days ago, and really excited to attend. My neighbor says it's fun and to go early, as the last day, vendors pack up early. It's a nice 1 1/4 hour drive for me, and if I had my California fishing license, I'd take advantage of the lakes... I love yard art and hopefully I can find a souvenir..

We always have a nice time, always tons of vendors, but not a lot to do for small children (wish…read morethere were more games, rides, etc)

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Amazing time once again this year at the annual strawberry festival. Held at west valley highschool…read morein happy valley. Tons of sweet treats including their famous shortcake which is HUGE and includes a big portion of vanilla ice cream. Lots of food vendors as well. Craft vendors, face painting, air brush tattoos and even pony rides for the kids. And don't forget about the gotta have super DELICIOUS kettle corn, made in front of you and given to you while it's still warm. Can't beat that. Live music and dancing. Fun times for all ages and a awesome experience for the entire family. A must go to for anyone that's never been. Every May is the time this event happens. We had a blast!!

Pass on the Sysco Buckets of Strawberrys over Sysco Cake and Sysco Ice Cream. What a joke. Millions…read moreof Strawberrys produced locally and not a single strawberry product to be found. Clearly a money grab and a shameful one at that. If you're going to represent a product, highlight the local farmers and businesses that revolve around it.