53rd Annual Tehachapi Mountain Festival® Theme Contest

The Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce and the 53rd Anniversary Mountain Festival Committee are looking for a theme for the 53rd Annual Tehachapi Mountain Festival®. The Festival will be on August 20 and 21, 2016.

Original or unique theme ideas should be submitted to the Chamber by Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 at 4 p.m. The winner will receive a $100 prize, along with V.I.P. treatment and an invitation to ride in the Mountain Festival Parade. Participants are allowed to submit an unlimited number of theme ideas, but only one winner will be chosen.

Previous year’s theme’s included:

2015 “Mountain Fun Under the Sun”

2014 “From Native Ways to Current Days”

2013 “Comin’ Round the Mountain 50 Years

and Countin’ “

2012 “Timeless Pleasures, Mountain Treasures

2011 “Rope the Wind, Ride the Mountain

2010 “Windmills, Wine & Oaks Divine”

2009 “Tehachapi 1909-2009,

What a Century in Time”

2008 “Once Upon A Mountain:

2007 “Mountains of Memories & Dreams

for the Future”

2006 “Mountains, Memories & Magic”

2005 “Remembering Old Times,

Enjoying New Ways”

2004 “Trains, Planes, Spurs & Lace”

2003 “Pioneer Days and Modern Ways”

2002 “Childhood Dreams and Wilder Things

2001 “2001 A Mountain Place Odyssey”

2000 “Gentle Breeze and Apple Tree’s”

1999 “Four Season’s of Fun”

1998 “35 Years of Memories Past”

1997 “Apple of my Eye”

Send legibly written theme ideas to the Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce, P.O. Box 401, Tehachapi, CA 93581-0401, drop entries off at 209 E Tehachapi Blvd, Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., or email to [email protected].

Be sure to include your name and phone number.