Welcome to the 26th Annual Taste of Kalamazoo Festival!

Thursday, July 21st New Music Night	Friday, July 22nd A Kalamazoo Entertainment Showcase!	Saturday, July 23rd The Entertainment Continues
Kidd-O Alexis Rowley Wheeler Band The Wildfire The Macpodz	Just Add Water Shelagh Brown Branden Mann and the Reprimand Dueling Pianos Matt Giraud The Out of Favor Boys	Who Hit John? Susan Harrison Childrens Show (2:00pm) Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra w/ Broadway Star Doug LaBrecque The Bryan Michael Fischer Band The Edgar Winter Band Rusty Wright Band

ABOUT TASTE.
Food, drinks, beer, and wine are available by the purchase of tickets, each costing $.50 for items usually priced between three and eight tickets. Great emphasis must be placed on the available variety and quality of fare. You will not see your typical carnival food concession trailers. Don't misunderstand us - we all love a good, old-fashioned elephant ear, but this is not the place. Here you will find food from Africa, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Caribbean, and all points in between. As far as beverages go, you'll encounter the best variety anywhere - from "beer garden microbrews" to Budweiser. You will find wine bars overflowing with the products of nearby local wineries as well as top-shelf liquor bars stocked with Captain Morgan, Cuervo, Tanqueray, and Smirnoff. We also offer an extensive list of non-alcoholic beverages including delicious smoothies, healthy juices, and refreshing Coca-Cola products. What we're trying to say is this: "You won't want to miss the Taste of Kalamazoo!"

For entertainment, the live music line-up runs all day and ranges from emerging local talent to well-known regional and national headliners presented outdoors under blue skies and beautiful sunshine. Additionally, informational booths and family-oriented activities are available for the entire family from 11am throughout most of the day. When the stagelights come up at dusk, the festival site transforms - becoming the throbbing heart of a vibrantly alive downtown district, audible from far away and memorable to all in attendance.

 July 21 - July 23, 2011

Arcadia Creek Festival Place in Downtown Kalamazoo, 145 E. Water Street

Cuisine from over 30 restaurants!
Activities for the entire family! Live entertainment!

Every year, on the fourth weekend of July, thousands of hungry festival-goers flock to downtown Kalamazoo to enjoy the endless variety of foods prepared by Kalamazoo's most popular eateries. More than 30 local restaurants and chefs will offer mouth-watering combinations of ethnic items, family favorites, exotic dishes, and local specialties, attracting and feeding an average of 10,000 people per day in downtown Kalamazoo and totaling 25,000 - 30,000 attendees over the entire weekend.

Admission is free each day until 4pm, Thursday $5 from 4pm to 7pm and $8 after 7pm;  Friday $5 after 4pm and $10 after 7pm; Saturday $10 after 5pm.

Children twelve and under are free.

Gates open at 11:00am each day serving lunch, dinner and late night to 12:30am Thursday and 1:30am Friday and Saturday.


Food and Beverage tickets are priced at .50 each, items range in price from .50 to 4.00.

The Taste is sponsored by THE KALAMAZOO JAYCEES and further made possible by  WRKR and WKFR, Budweiser and West Side Beer Distributing,  Mike’s Hard Lemonade, Imperial Beverage, Constellation Wines, MAPLE HILL AUTO GROUP, Hard Luck Candy Dist.,  Norman Foods, Erie Construction, METROPCS, Bath Fitters, DIRECT AIR  and Bluefire Media Group.

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