LB County Fair at First Fridays

Come out to enjoy a fun night. While we won’t have fair rides, you can expect to find food pop-ups, harvest competitions, live music, art, and much more. No fooling!

As always, most businesses on Atlantic Ave will stay open late.
Scroll all the way down to see all the fun details!!

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EXPO ARTS CENTER:

INSIDE EXPO

•Main room
–Art Massive
–Live music by Toaster Music

•Katie Phillips Gallery
–Blue Ribbon Urban Ag Competition
–Historical Exhibit of Long Beach Farms and Local Food

•South Gallery
–African American Cultural Center LB

•North Gallery
–Able ARTS Work – The Red Show

OUTSIDE EXPO – FAIR SQUARE

Businesses and organizations featured:
•Long Beach Flowers
•Sweet Grass Sugarcane Juice
•Romeo’s Chocolates
•Plants Water Love
•Avo-co
•Grand Prix
•YMCA
•St. Barnabas
•Women Shelter of LB
•Environmental Services of LB
•Council District 5 & Council District 8
•African American Cultural Center LB
•Able ARTS Work – Button Making Station
•Live music by Jim & Jonathan & The Pacific Crest Ramblers

LIVE MUSIC

•Bixby Joe
–Live music by Think of One Jazz Band

•Fair Square (Expo Arts Center)
–Live music by Jim & Jonathan & The Pacific Crest Ramblers

•The Artists’ Lot
–Live music by Calyxa

•Lola’s Mexican Cuisine
–Live music by Chelsey Sanchez

•Thunderbolt Pizza
–Live music by U.S. 99 Band

•Salon Medusa
–Live music by DJ Dave Skott

•Coffee Bean
–Live music by Hedgehog Swing

•Kubo (at BKCIA, 345 E Carson St)
–Live music by Belle Rivera

•Steelcraft
–Live music by DJ E-Rex

•Ambitious Ales
–Live music by DJ Lonely Creeper

•Edgar & James
–Lorenzo Flashback Band

BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

•Lola’s Mexican Cuisine
–Bacon wrapped hot dogs
–Marley Temple

•Tony’s Kitchen
–Churros with dip

•Semillitas Learning Community
–Baby chick brooder curtains open for 15 minutes at: 5pm | 6pm | 7pm
–Meet Chimalxochitl, their Semillitas family (cardboard) cow Greet Nopalli, their Semillitas family (wooden) horse & flower crown Nopalli to win a prize!
–DJ Ani leading a Zacatecas-inspired “Calle”-neada con música tradicional

•Long Beach Clothing
–Corn hole games & prizes

•Cheese Addiction
–Spaghetti Eating Contest

•Tutu School
–Face painting

•Wood & Salt
–Deep Fried Oreo Sundae

•Rasselbock
–Corn on the grill with jalapeño aioli, cotija cheese & chili powder

•The Better Half Boutique
–Spring Bunnies Meet & Greet 6pm-8pm
Free Popcorn

•Bixby Knolls Mortgage
–Mimi’s Cotton Candy

•Home Medic Store
–Fluffy’s Sno-Balls

•The Fresh Lab
–A Mutt Above Pop-up

•Dutch’s Brewhouse
–Frito Pie

•EJs Pub
–Deep fried Twinkie, Spiked fresh lemonade & Cotton Candy Margarita

•Salon Medusa
–Free colored hair spray

•Thunderbolt Pizza
–Italian Ice Cream Sandwiches

•Ambitious Ales
–Pop-up by Hamburgers Nice