moxee hop festival

The Moxee Hop Festival has been drawing attendees from far beyond the East Valley for years, but organizers know a good thing when they see it. Last year, two members of the Seattle Seahawks cheer squad — the Sea Gals — garnered throngs of fans to the festival...

This year's Moxee Hop Festival has so much going on that organizers had no choice: They added an extra day. So if you love parades, live music, Sea Gals, great food and bucket-loads of family fun, mark your calendars for Aug. 3, 4 and 5.

The Moxee Hop Festival is always fun, but this year it had a little added star power -- Seattle Seahawks cheerleaders Christian and Melanie hung out with us all afternoon to sign autographs and pose for pictures. We got some pictures of our own (see gallery above) before after Moxee's Stan Fortier introduced the Sea Gals to the crowd (see video below)...

Under deep blue skies and just enough breeze to keep everybody comfortable, the Moxee Hop Festival was as good as ever this year -- a grand parade, a 5K run, inflatable rides and slides, an entertainment stage that kept going day and night, food to please any palate and of course, the whole point of the celebration to begin with, beer -- the beverage all those hops help produce...