Contact: Steve Stagnaro

Direct Line 408-354-5145

Tapestry Office 408-494-3590

steve@stagnaro.com

August 25, 2005

A FESTIVAL WITHIN A FESTIVAL

San Jose, California - Take six square blocks of downtown San Jose this Labor Day Weekend and fill it with four live music stages, several hundred different artists, a home show and free hands on kids art and you have the many different festivals within the Tapestry Arts Festival.  Perhaps this is why Tapestry is San Jose’s oldest and largest outdoor celebration.  It is possible to create the prefect festival simply by walking to the area that has exactly what you came to enjoy.

At the heart of the festival is a juried art show.  Explore the work of emerging, as well as established artists, as they exhibit side by side on the streets of downtown San Jose.  Festival visitors will see fun and functional ceramics, unique clothing and jewelry, paintings, sculpture and prints, as well as fine works of leather and wood.  The works displayed in this event focus on high quality, originality and a bit of whimsy.  Festival artists will present decorative ceramics, diverse styles of painting, large-scale metal sculpture and brilliantly colored fused glass.  Crafters will display their finest functional pottery, planters, clocks, belts, bags and finely made furniture.  Jewelers will share their fine gems and precious metals which they have tooled into creative, one-of-a kind rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.  “It’s not too early to start Christmas shopping,” states executive director An Lu. “Several of our artists create holiday ornaments and have many gift suggestions”, continues Lu.

Four live music stages will offer everything from jazz, blues, rock n roll and country.  Bands with names like Nitecry, Aja Vu, Wally’s Swing World, Silver Creek, Big Fun and The Joe Sharino Band.  The South Bay Guitar Society will host a Guitar and Classical Stage.  Highlights on that stage include: James Robinson Quartet, Bob Culbertson and Neil Hogan. Sounds will range from flamenco to steel guitar to acoustic and Mexican folk guitar.  The complete entertainment schedule is available on line at  www.tapestryarts.org.

To the art, food and music add Interactive Alley, a playland for kids of all ages, the Design for Living Homeshow and free hands on art for children in the Creativity Zone and it is easy to see why Tapestry Arts is a “must do” this Labor Day Weekend.  The Tapestry Arts Festival runs September 3, 4 and 5, with hours Saturday and Sunday from 10-7 and Labor Day Monday from 10-5.

Tapestry Arts is supported, in part, through a grant from the City of San Jose and the Adobe Foundation Fund at Community Foundation Silicon Valley. Tapestry Arts is a not for profit organization.  The revenue from this festival supports Tapestry throughout the year as the organization brings arts education programs to local school-age children.  For more information call: (408) 494-3590 or go to  www.tapestryarts.org.

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The complete 2005 Festival Performers Schedule is available on the Festival Page at www.TapestryArts.org.