Jalapeño Festival: Intocable to Spice Up Saturday Night

LAREDO-The Jalapeño Festival will be celebrating its 31st anniversary on Friday, February 20th and Saturday, Feb. 21st at El Metro Park and Ride on Thomas and Hillside Road with the Tejano/Norteño multi-platinum Grammy Award winning group INTOCABLE headlining Saturday’s entertainment; Adrian Perez Y Origen, Intocable’s opening act, will warm up the crowd with puro sabor Tejano paving the way for a sizzling two-day festival you wont want to miss!

Challenge your friend’s to a fierce game of Tug of War Friday, visit a varied selection of food and novelty booths, or enjoy a dynamic musical line-up featuring three popular bands that are as diverse as they are entertaining.  Mick Cruz & Diamond Back will perform an ever-popular mix of mainstream and “Texas” Country music, while Aloha Dave and the Tourists will feature high energy rock, surf music, and reggae to please the most eclectic of music tastes.  Mainstream alternative rock band, Nothing More, offers a unique fusion of pop and progressive rock.  Aspiring drummers and alternative rock enthusiasts wont want to miss the bands’ nail biting stunts and expert drumming that will keep you wanting more.

The festival gets even hotter on Saturday at this festival with something for everyone.  The busiest day of the Jalapeño Festival offers games, Mexican antojitos, a Jalapeño eating contest, a live beauty pageant and, of course, the best LIVE MUSIC this side of the border! 

Saturday night’s entertainment will get hot, hot, hot with multi-platinum Grammy Award winning band Intocable; who is rivaled only by the granddaddy event of them all — the La Costeña Jalapeño Eating Contest!   The celebrated contest’s fame has spread throughout the country, thanks, in part, to a program aired by the Food Network, which featured the competition.   The current record for the most Jalapeños eaten during the contests holds at a very hot (and painful) 266 jalapeños in 15 minutes!!!  It just doesn’t get any hotter than this!

Following the Jalapeño eating contest is the 2009 Miss Jalapeño Competition.  Young ladies ages 17 – 25 can sign-up and show off their talent as they vie for the most coveted title in Los Dos Laredos.  Visit the WBCA website, wbcalaredo.org, for details on how to enter.

Several games throughout the day will keep the young and young at heart busy through the evening.  Saturday’s games include the Land Raft Race, Tricycle Race, Jaw-lapeño Race, International Waiter’s Race, and the Jalapeño Egg Toss.  So c’mon, put your skills to good use and challenge your friends to some good clean fun — We dare you!

The Jalapeño Festival, proudly sponsored by CPL Retail Energy a Direct Energy Company, attracts approximately 25,000 thousand people over a two-day period. Additional sponsors include Sames Mazda, La Costeña, Anheuser-Busch, Miller Lite, Inter National Bank, La Quinta Inn & Suites, Laredo Heat and O’Reilly Auto Parts.

Pre-sale tickets will go on sale at all O’Reilly’s locations one week from today and at the Mall del Norte WBCA kiosk starting Feb. 9th  — while supplies last!  Last day for pre-sale tickets is Thursday, February 19.

The Washington’s Birthday Celebration, founded in 1898, is the largest Celebration of its kind in the nation.  The almost month-long festivities attract nearly half-a-million attendees each year contributing to an estimated $14 million to the local economy.  Events include an eye-opening fireworks display, lively parades, majestic pageants, an elegant night of wine tasting, a thrilling air show, a carnival that offers exhilarating rides and games, a Mardi-Gras style street celebration, and one of the hottest events in the nation…the world-famous Jalapeño Festival. It truly is “The Celebration with Something for Everyone!”

For more information contact the WBCA office at (956) 722-0589 or wbca@wbcalaredo.org.  WBCA office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

***Friday’s Entertainment Line-up – LIVE ENTERTAINMENT: • Mick Cruz and Diamond Back (Country) • Nothing More (Alternative Rock) • Aloha Dave & The Tourists (Beach Music, Reggae, Rock) GAME: Tug Of War!!!

***Saturday’s Headliner: INTOCABLE!!! Opening Band — Adrian Perez Y Origen (Tejano) -Miss Jalapeño 2009 -Some Like it Hot Recipe Contest -Jalapeño Eating Contest **GAMES: • Land Raft Race • Tricycle Race • Jaw-lapeño Race • International Waiter’s Race • Jalapeño Egg Toss And MUCH MORE!