Adams Avenue Street Fair San Diego - Adams Avenue Business Association

Adams Avenue Street Fair

We are planning to hold the 40th Annual Adams Avenue Street Fair on September 18th & 19th, 2021 depending on San Diego’s Public Health Order in effect at the time.

Details for 2021

When

September 18 & 19, 2021
Sat. 10AM – 10PM
Sun. 10AM – 6PM

Where

Adams Avenue

Cost

Free!

7 Stages

100 Musical Acts

300 Arts, Crafts & Retail Booths

4 Beer Gardens

Craft Beer Taste

Festival Food

Giant Carnival Rides

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2019 Program

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-Adams Avenue Street Fair

The 40th annual Adams Avenue Street Fair – featuring 100 musical acts on seven stages – is tentatively scheduled from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021 depending on the Public Health Order in effect at that time.

Southern California’s largest free two-day music festival is held each year in September in the community of Normal Heights. The event also features beer gardens and beer tastings, giant carnival rides, festival foods and 300 arts and crafts booths.

Beer connoisseurs will enjoy the Street Fair’s Craft Beer Taste (from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday only), across from the Starbucks Stage. Visitors to the craft beer taste will have the opportunity to sample unlimited tastes from 17+ breweries for only $20. Previous years included a variety of craft-beer styles featured from breweries like Aztec Brewing Co., Automatic Brewing Co., BNS, Stone, Stumble Foot, Green Flash, Prohibition, North Park Brewing, Belching Beaver, Port/Lost Abby, Coronado and Mission Brewery. Purchase tickets above by clicking the “Craft Beer Taste Tix” button.

Three additional beer gardens are open throughout the two-day run of the street fair featuring full pour servings of San Diego’s best craft beer selection.

Vendors with unique offerings also will be participating in this year’s street fair and will be set-up throughout the venue. A complete schedule of events, performance times and an Adams Avenue Street Fair map are available using the links above.

Get your free Street Fair mobile app by entering “Adams Avenue” for Apple or Android phones or scan here!

Music Submissions

Steve Kader- Talent Buyer, [email protected]

Adams Avenue Street Fair 2021 EPK music submissions are now OPEN to [email protected] & please no “Top 40, Cover, or Tribute Band” submissions. Deadline Thursday, July 1, 2021.

Adams Avenue Street Fair is underwritten by a grant from the City of San Diego’s Commission for Arts and culture and the County of San Diego.

2019 Press

San Diego Union Tribune – Adams Avenue Street Fair to offer 100-plus bands, carnival rides, craft beer and more

ABC 10 New San Diego – 38th annual Adams Avenue Street Fair gives area business a boost

NBC San Diego – Adams Avenue Street Fair Returns for the 38th Year

San Diego Reader – Los Texmaniacs joined by Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos for local gig

Sound Diego – Fall for Pyle’s End of Summer Shows

San Diego Magazine – Six Bands to see at the Adams Avenue Street Fair

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2018 Press

Adams Avenue Street Fair Announces Lineup- The annual Adams Avenue Street Fair returns to Normal Heights in September with a jam-packed music lineup
San Diego Union Tribune - Sept 27,2018- "You can fill your weekend with music like nowhere else"
NBC 7 - SoundDiego- The annual Adams Avenue Street Fair returns to Normal Heights in September with a jam-packed music lineup
San Diego Reader - Sept 27, 2018- 50 years of East L.A. blues-rock
San Diego Uptown News - Sept 21, 2018- Uptown bands to shine at Normal Heights music festival