The Summer Solstice Parade features more than 1,000 parade participants, complete with extravagant floats, whimsical costumes and creatively choreographed dancing ensembles. From its humble beginnings as a small parade featuring street artists, the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Celebration is now the premier Santa Barbara County arts event, drawing crowds of over 100,000 spectators from around the world.
At high Noon, on the Saturday following the longest day of the year, creative floats, fascinating costumes, brilliant masks begin their journey from Cota Street up State Street to Micheltorena, transforming downtown Santa Barbara into a vibrant splash of color, music and dance. People-powered floats reignite the creative spirit of Santa Barbara. Commercial elements, such as written words, advertisements, live animals, or motorized vehicles (except wheelchairs) are excluded from the Parade, as is nudity.
Summer Solstice Parade began in 1974, as a birthday celebration for a popular artist and mime named Michael Gonzales. The Parade is the largest, single-day arts event in Santa Barbara County, drawing crowds of over 100,000 spectators from around the world. From these humble beginnings arose a celebration of life which, is like no other.
Today, the Summer Solstice Celebration has evolved into creative and original display of floats, whimsical costumes and masks of more than 1,000 parade participants, of all ethnic and economic backgrounds. There is dancing, music, drumming and drama that enthralls the spectators. Each year there is an annual artistic competition for the Solstice T-shirt and Poster design that is sold as a fundraising vehicle for the event. Visit our Solstice Store or Poster Gallery today to purchase T-shirts and posters.
The Festival in Alameda Park grew from the earlier gatherings at the sunken gardens of the County Courthouse. When the number of people outgrew the size of the courthouse the event was moved to Alameda Park. The Alameda Park is where everyone can enjoy music, food, arts and crafts, a drum circle, a special free children’s festival and more.
As a 501(c)3, nonprofit, community organization, the Summer Solstice Celebration group is responsible for carrying on Michael's delightful, multicultural performing arts celebration, and ensuring an extravagant celebration of life through art for many years to come.
1- The Shadow of Lo – Chick Corea 2- Baby Come Back – Player 3- Lovers Rock – Sade 4- Move On Up (break) – The Dynamics 5 - Unbreak my dub - jstar 6 – My Demons – Distance 7 - Wasted Time Feat. Vikter Dupla - Jazzanova 8 - Holding You loving You - Don Blackman 9 - Love for the Sake of Love - Claudja Barry 10 -Georgy Porgy (Brubekk re-re-Edit) - Toto 11 - Why - Carly Simon 12 - Keep on movin.. (In my life always edit)- Soul II Soul 13 - Open Your Eyes - Bobby Caldwell 14 -Sensitivity - Ralph Tresvant 15 - All around the world (open hearted edit) - Lisa Stansfield 16 - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - PM Dawn 17 - Only Love Can Break Your Heart - St Etienne 18 - No One (Pocketknife's Songs In the Life of Keys Remix)(Unbelievable edit) - Alicia Keys 19 - Kool and The Gang - Too Hot 20 - I'm Out Of Your Life - Arnie's Love 21 - "T" Plays It Cool - Marvin Gaye 22 - Blood is Thicker- Ino Hidefumi 23 - Mona lisa (outro Walk on by edit) - Slick Rick 24 - Dominoes - Donald Byrd 25 - I Just Called To Say I Love You (Things that don't happen with out you edit) -Stevie Wonder 26 - Overpowered (Radio Edit) - Roisin Murphy 27 - Lettin' Go - Janelle Monae 28 - I'm Afraid the Masquerade is Over - David Porter 29 - Neither One
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