The annual fest — filled with food, music and dance — takes place this weekend at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in San Jose.
The Ethnos dance group performs during the San Jose Greek Festival at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in San Jose, Calif., on Sunday, June 4, 2023. Memorial Day weekend has long been the traditional start of summer, but in the South Bay it doesn’t feel like the season really arrives until we’re munching on lamb chops and baklava under white-and-blue striped umbrellas while people dance in a big circle, arm in arm.
Meat roasts during the San Jose Greek Festival at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in San Jose, Calif., on Sunday, June 4, 2023. Morgan met his future wife at Mountain Charley’s on July 23, 1982 when they were both San Jose State students and danced the night away, making North Santa Cruz Avenue their first stop on the way to the altar. Morgan points out that he was 20 and his bride-to-be was 19 at the time, and that tells you everything you need to know about how carefully IDs were checked in the early ’80s.
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