streetfest

Part of the El Paso Downtown Streetfest that everyone loves every year is the huge fireworks shows each night. Thanks to Teacher's Federal Credit Union, El Paso celebrates the Fourth of July with a bang, or a few hundred or thousand or so!

Rich Williams the guitar player of the group Kansas called into the KLAQ Morning show today to talk about coming to Streetfest, the history of the the band and about one of his legendary songs.

There are so many different things going on at Streetfest -- the concerts, the local bands, the fireworks, the cars, the dancing, the food -- it's tough to keep track of it all. But we tried last year. Remember Streetfest 2011? Here's a slow-mo slice of "The Life" from 2011 headliner Hinder to help, and to get you ready for even more in 2012!

It's now been more than a week since I was in El Paso and I miss you (yes, all of you!) already! You guys really showed me that El Paso can party at Balloonfest and I can't wait to do it again with you at Streetfest! While I can't be in El Paso all the time, I can keep up with what's going on there by checking the ever-moving wall here on KLAQ...

This weekend's Balloonfest 2012 was so much fun, it's impossible to capture it all on one video, but luckily there are tons of different videos and photo galleries you can check out that will show you a bit of what happened this weekend.

Everyone is planning things in advance, what with gas prices climbing still, everything else costing more. So I thought giving you a heads up on this year's El Paso Downtown Streetfest will help you begin plotting your summer fun! The kids will be off from school, the 4th of July holiday is a nice relaxing cookout day when many El Pasoans' only plan is to sneak outside of the city limits and shoot

One more time, and now mobile-device ready. It's the Streetfest Slowdown, highlighting the different Downtown Street Festival activities, stages, concerts, car shows, food, dancing and, most of all, the PEOPLE who made it such a great party. And, oh yeah, that fireworks show, too!

Listening to some singers who sound like they need to goob up some serious lung oysters at the end of their shows, you come to appreciate the pipes of someone like Queensryche's Geoff Tate. The man's in his fifties yet his voice still sounds like he'd been cryogenically frozen from when Nirvana yanked the rug out from under Rock-as-we-knew-it, and preserved for a time when we could again appreciat

Friday, July 1st, El Paso, Las Cruces, Cd. Juarez and more joined in for our big block party to celebrate Independence Day. Thank YOU for coming to the party, as we salute those who made the El Paso Downtown Street Festival THE place to be and slow things down to feature Hinder's "The Life"...

Sign your band up now for the Independence Stage at Streetfest! Bands, fill out this form to send us your YouTube video link so people can see your band in action! Between now and June 9th, get your band in the running for one of 10 slots at Streetfest! If you are picked by the People's Vote, you'll receive: $300 Performance Money Basic backline, with lights, sound Your band in all Streetfestival

Enjoy a spectacular fireworks display both nights of The El Paso Streetfest thanks to Teacher's Federal Credit Union Every year, the El Paso Downtown Streetfestival puts on a massive display of fireworks to celebrate our independence, and thanks to Teacher's FCU, we can make them bigger and better every year!

Queensryche joins BTO for Day 2 of Streetfest 2011! Veteran Seattle rockers Queensyche will take the Budweiser stage on Saturday, July 2nd at the El Paso Downtown Street Festival! They'll be playing tracks spanning their entire career, including music from their latest CD Dedicated to Chaos, in stores on June 28th!