Wine and Glass France comes to Santa Barbara! Outdoor vendors and sidewalk cafes. Tables with umbrellas and checkered tablecloths. Fresh baked french breads and pastries. Classic and nouvelle cuisine and regional specialities. Crepes, onion soup, quiche, pates, sausage, escargots, Cajun and French Moroccan food, salads and cheeses. Beer, wine, sparking Champagne. Orangina, Perrier, and frothy cafe au lait. Chef Michel Richard says it's like going to France without paying for it.

Unique in Western U.S.A.

Over 20,000 happy people are French for the weekend. Outdoors under the sun in Santa Barbara's beautiful Oak Park.

Travel and Language

Displays and free literature from tourist boards, travel agents, tour companies and airlines. Books, maps, language, student exchange programs.

Activities

Continuous Free Entertainment: Over 40 Acts on Three Stages!
Raucous cancan. Folk music and dancing. Classical recitals. Accordion players. Tributes to Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. Moroccan belly dancing. Grand opera. Cajun bands. Jazz. Tango. Classical recitals. Roving jugglers, mimes and troubadours. A complete schedule with performance times will be distributed at the Festival.

Arts and Crafts; Books and Tapes
Impressionist painters at their easels, reminiscent of Montmartre or Provence. Handcrafted jewelry. Berets. French books, tapes and videos.

Eiffel Tower!
A huge, specially commissioned Eiffel Tower is the focal-point of the Fete.

Films, Art Shows, Specials, Activities throughout Santa Barbara
Gallery displays, French films, musical events, travel slide shows, etc. all week.

French Art Show
Watercolor paintings of Provence and Paris by Steve Hoegerman, Director of the French Festival and leader of Journeys to Hidden Provence, will be on display until July 31 in the lobby of the Public Library in downtown Santa Barbara.

For the Kids
Puppet shows, storytellers, bouncer, wading pool. Climb Mont Blanc. Experience the Crepe Flipper. Meet Madeleine and Asterix.

Santa Barbara's First Non-Smoking Festival
Stash those Gitanes and Gauloises or get scolded by the Gendarmes. Sponsored by the Tobacco Prevention Settlement Program.

Merci Beaucoup to our Sponsors
A tip of the beret to Perrier, Air France, Contrex, Nestle PureLife, Red Bicyclette, Hidden Provence,Dish Network French TV, Kronenbourg, Event Rents, and HiddenProvence.com.

• Kiki Kalor: Around the World in Seven Languages
• Simon Dray: Emcee and singer, Eiffel Tower Stage
• Simon Dray Band: From Jacques Brel to Gypsy Jazz
• Yesteryears Dancers: Elegant French ballroom dance. Join in!
• Young Girls' Cancan: Childrens Travelling Dance Theater
• CanCan (6x each day)
• Cancan/Fusion Dance Company
• Steve Hoegerman: French Festival Director and MC Moulin Rouge Stage
• CanCan: Fusion Dance Co. (2x each day)
• Edith Piaf: A Tribute by Marilyn Gilbert
• West African Drum and Dance: From the Congo and Ivory Coast
  
• Mayor Marty Blum: Santa Barbara's Madame Mayor Leads Off the Poodle Parade
• Moroccan Belly Dancing: Alexandra King and Seher
• Accordion International Music Society: July Meeting at Festival
• Femmes Fatales Drag Review (6pm Sat & Sun)
• Jessica Fichot: Songs of France, Sounds of the World
• Kendra: Chansons Francais
• Bara: Drumming from Senegal
• Foxtails Brigade with Laura Weinbach: Experimental/World/Folk Music
• Carol Ann Manzi: Internationally Acclaimed Operatic Soprano; Carmen, Edith Piaf and more
• French Polynesian Dance: Tina's Ports of Paradise
• Medieval and Renaissance Music
• Jean Pierre Tibi: Traditional French Songs(2x each day)
• Jessica Vautor:Une jolie voix de Martinique
• Poodle Parade (Sunday 5:30)
• Cancan: Ellen Schipper Classical Ballet (2x each day)
• Classical Recitals
• Tango: Brian and Fay
• Maurice Chevalier: A Tribute by Gustav Vintas
• The Drama of Bastille Day 1789
• Mimes
• Jugglers
• Zoaves: Colorful French Soldiers
• Hurdy Gurdy
• Madeleine
• Storytellers
• Tribute to Jacques Brel: 30th Anniversary of his Passing, by Simon Dray
• The Society for Creative Anachronism (Sunday all day)
• Bret Larson: Accordion
• Napoleon: Meet the Emperor in Person
• Drawing for a Trip for 2 to Paris on Air France
• Marie Antoinette
• Asterix
• Assorted Wandering Minstrels and Troubadours
• Historical Ballroom Dance of UCLA: James and Cynthia
• Madame Marceline: Songs of the City of Light
• Ali Baba from Mali: French-African
• A complete schedule with performance times will be distributed at the Festival.

Monique Loiselle:
In Memoriam; Monique passed away March 3, 2002.