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Save the date for 2012 Oxnard Salsa Festival

Spicy food, hot music and Oxnard's cool ocean breezes are on the menu for the 19th Annual Oxnard Salsa Festival, July 28 & 29, 2012 in Oxnard, California. Plaza Park is the place for a two-day celebration of everything salsa – the food, the music, and the dance. You can taste it, you can dance it, and you can even take it home!

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Salsa Bands 2012Ride Amtrak to the Oxnard Salsa Festival

Register for the Oxnard Salsa Dash!

Oxnard Salsa DashGet your running shoes ready for the 5th Annual Oxnard Salsa Dash, to be held on Saturday July 21, 2012. The Oxnard Salsa Festival is pleased to partner with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training® to present the Dash, one of the signature events of a month-long salsa celebration in Downtown Oxnard. This CHIP-timed run/walk is a sightseeing tour though downtown Oxnard through the wide, charming streets of the Henry T. Oxnard National Register Historic District, and across the finish line at the Plaza Park Pagoda. Register Today!

Great Oxnard Salsa Challenge

Think your salsa has what it takes to be the best? Then enter your masterpiece into the Great Oxnard Salsa Challenge! Whether your taste sensation runs spicy or sweet, our Amateur Division salsa contest has a category for you. Click here for more information on how to enter. We also have a Professional Division competition for restaurants and salsa purveyors participating in the Salsa Tasting Tent.