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2025 Festival Lineup
Saturday, August 23, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Youth Dance Showcase
FLEX Performing Arts &
The Studio of Performing Arts
Dance
Mechanics Bank
9th Street Stage
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Exploration Discovery Center
Where kids come to play and learn along the way!
Day Pass Admission $5-$15
9th Street & Ramona Avenue
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Ras Danny & The Reggae All Stars
Reggae
Arroyo Grande Community Hospital
Ramona Avenue Stage
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Samba Loca
Samba
Mechanics Bank
9th Street Stage
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Hālau Hula Nā Mele O Ke Kai &
Na Hoa Aloha
Polynesian
Arroyo Grande Community Hospital
Ramona Avenue Stage
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Critical Mass
70s/80s/90s
Mechanics Bank
9th Street Stage
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Riff Tide
Surf/Rock/Funk/Soul
Arroyo Grande Community Hospital
Ramona Avenue Stage
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Monte Mills &
The Lucky Horseshoe Band
Country Western
Sponsored by Bette Kulp
Mechanics Bank
9th Street Stage
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Carbon City Lights
Indie Alternative Rock
Arroyo Grande Community Hospital
Ramona Avenue Stage
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Peach and the Jam
Rock & Roll Americana
Mechanics Bank
9th Street Stage
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Saturday Night 80s Dance Party with
The Molly Ringwald Project
80s Dance Hits
Sponsored by
Jennifer White, Farmers Insurance
Arroyo Grande Community Hospital
Ramona Avenue Stage
Sunday, August 24, 2025
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Mardi Paws Dog Parade
Sponsored by Pismo Beach Veterinary Clinic
Mechanics Bank
9th Street Stage
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Outreach Program
Food Packaging Event
Sponsored by Pismo Beach-Five Cities Rotary Club
Ramona Garden Park Community Room
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Friendly Neighborhood Big Band
Big Band Swing & Jazz
Sponsored by Jazz Jubilee Central Coast
Mechanics Bank
9th Street Stage
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Mariachi Soy de America
Mariachi
Sponsored by Bette Kulp
Arroyo Grande Community Hospital
Ramona Avenue Stage
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Ichimi Daiko
Japanese Taiko Drumming
Mechanics Bank
9th Street Stage
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sebastián Natal & Candombe Septet
Uruguayan Candombe Fusion
Arroyo Grande Community Hospital
Ramona Avenue Stage
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Mestizo
Latin & Contemporary Fusion
Mechanics Bank
9th Street Stage
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Eric Cotton & One Love Bomb
Cali Reggae
Arroyo Grande Community Hospital
Ramona Avenue Stage
2025 Street Fair Vendors
Food
Wares
2025 Festival Details
THE MUSIC
The festival brings together a variety of music styles on two different stages: The 9th Street Stage and the Ramona Avenue Stage. Saturday features a lineup of artists from 10 AM until 9 PM. Sunday features a lineup of artists from 11 AM until 6 PM. Bring your dancing shoes and experience two days of wonderful music.
FOOD & STREET FAIR
From local crafts to world treasures and a wide variety of food, beer, wine, and beverage options, the Street Fair brings vendors from across the Central Coast and beyond to the streets surrounding the Festival.
TOUR STONE SOUP
DIRECTIONS
HISTORY
The festival name traces back to a folk tale about a stranger's arrival in a starving village. The stranger promises to cook enough soup to feed the entire population. As the stranger cooks and tastes the soup, he asks each villager to contribute an ingredient for flavor. The result is a tasty, nourishing soup that feeds everyone. The moral is a reminder that by everyone pulling together and combining diverse strengths, much can be accomplished.
The founders of the Stone Soup Music Festival created the event with this story in mind. For over 30 years, each summer, the community joins together to provide a venue for a wide variety of local and guest musicians, artists, and food & merchandise vendors to celebrate cultural and ethnic diversities. The festival remains popular with locals as well as drawing thousands of visitors to Grover Beach and the surrounding communities.
Donate
Music Festival & Street Fair
Each year, the Clark Center relies on sponsors, volunteers, staff, vendors, and donors like you to continue a community tradition that has thrived for over 30 years in Grover Beach.
The Outreach Program
Pismo Beach & Grover Beach Rotary Club, the AGHS Interact Club, and the Clark Center are partnering to support The Outreach Program. Our donation goal is to raise $4,500 through online donations to fund the project. For every $0.42 raised, we can feed one person. We are asking for each person to give just $35 which provides 83 meals!
