Santee Bluegrass Festival

Great east County folks bring the best local wine, craft beer, and food. And guess what all for the great cause of santee! The vendors bring there own free food and feed you. Everything is donated! Awesome event I’ll always be there!

Awesome! I love this event. This was my second year going and it keeps getting better. The price for the tickets are extremely reasonable, especially for an all you can eat and all you can drink event!
The food is amazing! I love food and the variety and quality of food that is offered at the annual Santee Bluegrass Festival is a perfect match for food lovers. They have everything for every type of craving. The carnivores (me) were able to have our palettes satisfied by Slaters ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ signature patties, which is 50% ground bacon 50% ground beef and topped with more bacon. Life doesn’t get any better than bacon. There were plenty of other food vendors but nothing tops bacon, sorry other vendors.
Ok, so there were other vendors other then our lovely bacon providers. There were vendors that solely had sweets (cupcakes, pies, cakes, etc.) there was Mexican food, Italian food, and fish. I’m certain there was more food but I only cared about one food vendor and that is what I mostly ate while there.
In addition to all the bacon that was provided there were plenty of wine tasting opportunities. One of my favorite wine tasting tables was by PRP Wines located in San Diego. I have personally been buying from PRP Wines for several years and I’m a little partial to them. They import wines from all over the world, they do not carry anything domestic which gave them an advantage compared to the other wine vendors who locally grow their grapes. There is something special inside a bottle of a South African Cab. One of the things I was most impressed by was the fact that PRP Wines brought not only their $ 20 bottles of wine but their $ 80 bottles too and they did not hold back on their pours of their most expensive labels. This is not a quality most wineries have.
Food (bacon), wine, and now beer. There was a plethora of beer vendors that gave out free shirts, hats, etc. I’m not much of a beer drinker so I have nothing to say other than there was beer and those vendors were friendly.
Music, a Bluegrass Festival is not complete without music. There was a band that played great tunes to wash all our food and drinks down with. I have no complaints.
I look forward to going again next year!