The 46th Annual Silverado Country Fair and Folk Festival October 8th-9th, 2016, is gonna’ be the best family event of the season and will explore the wonders of the area’s Old West rustic culture, great live music, tasty food, handmade arts and crafts, 1800’s period activities, children’s petting zoo, Steampunk magic show, games and silly ‘ole timey’ contests, all nestled under the Oak trees below Orange County’s famous Saddleback Mountain.

The event kicks off at 9:00 am Saturday morning with the 46th annual “Unparade” lead by the notorious wagon driven Silverado Outlaws! Western horseback riders, Acjachemen tribe, scouts, dancers and classic cars will be paradin’ past homes and businesses along Silverado Canyon Road to the "fairgrounds." Don’t miss the live action robbery and gunfight at the Silverado Café and Canyon Market area! (Don’t worry kids…the Outlaws promise to give back what they steal!)

Down at the "fairgrounds" the Silverado Country Fair opens at 10:00 am with live music, dancing, and gun ‘slingin’ fun! Local art & craft merchants will be showin’ their wares and families can experience making old ‘timey crafts of the 1800’s with Mountain Man Joel Robinson & family dressed in period garb. There's a community DIY (Do It Yourself) homestead workshop where folks can learn to pickle, ferment and even raise chickens! Hungrier visitors will love the “by golly tastiest and wholesomest’ country cookin’ ya ever ate” served all weekend. 

Country, Western, Bluegrass, Folk & Blues bands will entertain throughout the weekend and entertainment highlights include Girl Scouts Ballet Folklorico, Acjachemen Storytellers, Canyon Creek Ramblers, Geoff Sarkissian, Sweetwater Creek Band, Liz Hill and the Old Man Band, Road Kill Kings. Three Blind Mice, and 3rd Degree Blues! Sunday’s fair concludes with The Budrows Cigar Box Blues party and OC’s favorite Grateful Dead tribute band...CUBENSIS!

This year’s fair focuses on the simple life long ago alongside the lifetime accomplishments of one of our eldest residents and most famous fer’ sure...the award winnin’ Cowboy singer/songwriter Rusty Richards. This legendary cowboy singer who performed with the 'Sons of the Pioneers', Roy Rogers, and others, was given the Chester A. Reynolds award and inducted to the Cowboy Hall of Fame earlier this year in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A canyon style tribute to our local hero will take place Saturday afternoon October 8th with poetry reading', some cowboy bluegrass, and will include special performances by Rusty's granddaughter 'Amanda Richards and the Good Long Whiles', followed by Rusty's country star son 'Jason Richards & friends.'

The Silverado Country Fair & Folk Festival is held annually at the Silverado Community Center "Fairgrounds", located just one mile into Silverado Canyon, and only minutes away from the cities of Orange, Lake Forest, Santa Margarita and Irvine. Come experience one of the last Wild West towns of the OC and invite your friends and family! You’re all welcome to DRESS HILLBILLY WESTERN and bring ‘yer country attitude!  “No Hooch, No Pooch, No ATM”...meanin' no doggies nor spirits in the park and bring yer' gold with ya' cuz that there ATM machine is up yonder road!

Date: Saturday & Sunday, October 8th-9th, 2016   Time: Daytime Fair 10:00 am to 6:00 pm   Saturday Night Music Fest 5-10 pm

Location: Silverado Community Center 27641 Silverado Canyon Rd, Silverado, CA, 92676 Cost: Adult admission: $5/Kids 4-12 only $3, under 3 FREE! Saturday Night BLUES Fest: $5 for everyone