Get competitive at the CA State Fair & Food Festival!

CA State Fair & Food Festival July 15-31

FRIDAY, JULY 22

The competition is on! We have the Corn Dog Eating Contest, Selection of Beef Supreme Champions, Professional Chef Challenge, and MORE for Friday, July 22, at the CA State Fair & Food Festival!

Toyota Concert Series on the Golden 1 Stage

ABBA The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA - 8 pm

Be a Dancing Queen tonight at ABBA The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA live at the Toyota Concert Series Golden 1 Stage!

ABBA The Concert continues to be the top ABBA tribute group in the world, dazzling with their fantastic performance while playing the most iconic hits from ABBA, including “Mamma Mia,” “S.O.S,” “Money, Money, Money,” “The Winner Takes All,” “Waterloo,” “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme,” and “Dancing Queen.”

Corn Dog Eating Contest

The Corn Dog Eating Contest is at 6 pm at the Sky River Casino Promenade Stage! The reigning champion, Molly Schuyler, returns to defend her title. In 2019, Molly ate 33 corn dogs in just 8 minutes! How many will she eat this year?

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Best of California Brewfest

Last year we featured more than thirty of the most incredible breweries in California. To select this year’s honorees, our experts will begrudgingly spend 3 full days tasting well over a thousand entries in over sixty categories to bring you California’s very best!

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Senior Savings Fridays

Each Friday of the Fair, seniors 62 years and better pay only $10 admission. Talk about a deal!

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Selection of Beef Supreme Champions

Exhibitors from the West Coast will see who owns the Best Female and Bull as the Supreme Champions are named in the Beef Show. Stop by the Tractor Supply Co. Big Barn at 12pm to see the action!

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Save Mart
California's Kitchen

12 - 2 pm: Professional Chef Challenge: Preliminary Round 1
2 - 3 pm: Taste of CA: Documentary and Q&A The Sweet History of California Strawberries
3 - 5 pm: Professional Chef Challenge: Preliminary Round 2
6 - 8 pm: Professional Chef Challenge: Preliminary Round 3

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California Cannabis Exhibit

Presented by Kolas

2:00 to 2:45 pm: Discover the California Cannabis Trail

3:00 to 3:45 pm: Cannabis and Plant Wellness as a Lifestyle

4:00 to 4:45 pm: The Craft of Cannabis Harvest and Curing

6:30 to 7:30 pm: FILM – The Cannabis Trail Short Documentary Series

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