Gilroy Garlic Festival 2021 will see a different format
Gilroy Garlic Festival 2021 will see a different format
Organizers of the Gilroy Garlic Festival say they will hold the event for the first time since the 2019 mass shooting. The Festival will look a lot different due to the pandemic.
GILROY, Calif. - Organizers of the Gilroy Garlic Festival say the event will resume this summer, but it will be a lot different.
The event was canceled last year because of the pandemic.
This year will mark the first such festival since a deadly shooting at the event in 2019, when three people were killed and 17 others injured after a teenage gunman opened fire on the crowd.
The site of the festival this year will be the parking lot of the Gilroy Presbyterian Church instead of Christmas Hill Park; there won t be any large crowds or vendors; and the traditional Gourmet Alley, with top chefs working up dueling dishes, will be a reimagined drive-thru feature.
The offical dates are July 23-25 and July 30-31 and Aug. 1.
Organizers say they are working with Santa Clara County health officials to get approval for the revised Gourmet Alley.
The Gilroy Presbyterian Church is at 6000 Miller Ave.
Other events related to the Gilroy Garlic Festival also are on the schedule. A farm-to-table dinner at Fortino’s Winery, at 4525 Hecker Pass Highway, takes place Saturday, July 24; and the Garlic Festival Golf Classic will be held Friday, July 30 at Gilroy Golf Course, 2695 Hecker Pass Road.
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Baskets of garlic are weighed after the garlic topping contest at the 20th Annual Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.Judith Calson / KRT
The Gilroy Garlic Festival is preparing to return this summer after it was shut down last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers said.
This year’s event will also be the first since the deadly mass shooting at the festival in 2019.
The festival’s 42nd iteration will look different because of pandemic restrictions, the Gilroy Garlic Festival Association said. Events such as the proposed drive-through Gourmet Alley, a farm-to-table dinner and a charity golf tournament will be socially distanced. Other festivities will be virtual.
did see earlier. this could still be at the christmas hill park. that s the location, by the way, of this garlic festival. and i do want to go to somebody who s on the phone with us right now. andrew blankstein who is nbc news investigative reporter. andrew, what do we know? right now we know there s still a suspect being sought in this shooting. as far as the number of people that have been hit i m hearing the same number that the bay-air, that number could go higher. but in terms of that the all out searches going on, not only the gilroy police department but other local law enforcement agencies that have been brought in to try to hunt for this suspect. andrew, at the moment we have very little official information. those who have been with us over the last half-hour, we have been