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Happy Day, Lodi.

Quick Lodi fact before we get into it: the Lodi Grape Festival Grounds have hosted everything from livestock competitions to presidential campaign stops since the first opening in 1907. This Sunday they're hosting bocce ball, a world-renowned tenor, and a Boss of the Sauce competition. Things have changed. Mostly for the better.

Here's what's in this edition:

  • Festa Italiana at the Grape Festival Grounds this Sunday — live music on two stages, Pasquale Esposito headlining, Italian food, kids zone, $15 at the door

  • Lodi Vinyl Tap at IDOL Beer Works same afternoon — free, all ages, DJ M-80, hundreds of records

  • Summer Reading Program kicks off Saturday at the Lodi Public Library, open to kids, teens, and adults

  • Community Spotlight on the Coldani family: four generations of farming, 100 years of Lodi soil, and a tasting room that pairs olive oil with Zinfandel

  • Lodipalooza is coming June 20 — STP, Green Day, RHCP, Smashing Pumpkins, and Soundgarden tribute bands all day at Oak Farm Vineyards

Let's get into it.

— Hunter & Kylie Talamantez

📣Events

📸 via pacificitalianalliance.com

Festa Italiana | Sunday, June 7 | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

If you want a full day out with good food, live music, and something to do for every person in your group, this is the one to mark. Festa Italiana brings Italian culture to the Lodi Grape Festival Grounds every year and it never feels small. This time around you've got world-renowned tenor Pasquale Esposito headlining the main stage, the Balliamo! Italian Folk Dancers in the pavilion, the Bambini Zone for the little ones, bocce ball, a Mercato Marketplace, Italian automobiles on display, cooking demos, wine tasting, olive oil tastings, and the return of the "Boss of the Sauce" contest where you actually get to judge homemade pasta sauces. Raviolis to gelato, the food lineup covers it.

Tickets are $15 at the door. Children 12 and under get in free with an adult. Parking is also free. You can grab tickets in advance at festa-italiana.com or pick them up at the Lodi Grape Festival Ground box office.

📍 Lodi Grape Festival Grounds, 413 E. Lockeford St., Lodi, CA 95240

📸 via DJ M-80 on Facebook

Lodi Vinyl Tap | Sunday, June 7 | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Same Sunday as Festa Italiana, so if you want to make a full day of it, this is how you finish. Vinyl Tap is a free, family-friendly record event at IDOL Beer Works where vendors show up with hundreds of records for sale and you're welcome to bring your own to swap or share. DJ M-80 keeps things spinning all afternoon while you browse. It's low pressure, it's downtown, and it's the kind of afternoon that's easy to extend into dinner.

Free to attend, all ages welcome, food available for purchase.

📍 IDOL Beer Works, 100 S. Sacramento St., Lodi, CA 95240

📸 via Olive Crush Farms: Olive Oil Boutique on Facebook

Lodi Stitch Club at Olive Crush Farms | Saturday, June 13 | 10:00 am

If you stitch, knit, embroider, or crochet, this Saturday meetup at Olive Crush Farms is worth putting on your calendar. The Lodi Stitch Club gathers at the boutique on Lodi Avenue for a casual morning of making things with your hands around other people who get it. Bring your current project, introduce yourself to a new face, and pick up some olive oil while you're at it.

Free to attend. End time not listed, check the Facebook event for updates.

📍 Olive Crush Farms, 4 W. Lodi Ave., Lodi, CA 95240

📸 via oakfarmvineyards.com

Lodipalooza | Saturday, June 20 | 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm

This one is a full day. Lodipalooza is a 90s alt-rock tribute festival at Oak Farm Vineyards and the lineup is genuinely stacked: Stone Temple Peruvians (STP), Mary Jane Mafia (Green Day), Scar Tissue (Red Hot Chili Peppers), The Pumpkin Heads (Smashing Pumpkins), and Blackdaze doing Soundgarden. Ten hours, five bands, food trucks, and Oak Farm's wines on a summer Saturday in the vineyard. If you were alive in the 90s this will feel like something. If you weren't, this is still a great way to spend a June evening in Lodi.

General admission tickets are $75. VIP tables are limited and include shade, a dedicated server, and drink tickets. Grab tickets early,  this one has real buzz.

📍 Oak Farm Vineyards, 23627 N. DeVries Rd., Lodi, CA 95242

🏡 Family & Kids Corner

📸 via Lodi Public Library on Facebook

Summer Reading Program Kickoff | Saturday, June 6 | Starting at 10:00 am

The Lodi Public Library's Summer Reading Program kicks off this Saturday, and it is open to everyone kids, teens, and adults. This year's theme is "Plant a Seed, Read," built around gardening, nature, and community. The way it works: you read, you log it, you earn prize entries. Kids track by the hour, teens by the page, and adults by the book. Prize drawings run through August with things like LEGO kits, board games, Magna-Tiles, camping gear, and more. You can sign up in person starting Saturday or register online and grab your folder at the library. The program runs through August 21.

📍 Lodi Public Library, 201 W Locust St, Lodi, CA 95240

📸 via Lodi Community Art Center on Facebook

Kid's Corner at the Art Center | Saturday, June 6 | 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

If you have a kid who likes making things, the Lodi Community Art Center's Kid's Corner is a free drop-in event worth putting on the calendar. It is designed for ages 5 to 18, all supplies are provided, and there is no registration required. You just show up. The art center is right downtown, so you can make an afternoon of it if you want to.

📍 Lodi Community Art Center, 110 W Pine St, Lodi, CA 95240

📸 via wowsciencemuseum.org

WOW For All Free Admission Sunday | Sunday, June 7 | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

The World of Wonders Science Museum has four free admission Sundays in 2026, and June 7 is one of them. This is a genuine full day at the museum with 70-plus hands-on exhibits covering energy, electricity, optics, magnetism, and more, all at no cost. On a normal day, admission runs $7 for kids and $9 for adults. The WOW For All program is funded through a Lodi Community Foundation grant, and the point is simple: no family should skip the museum because of the price.

📍 World of Wonders Science Museum, 2 N Sacramento St, Lodi, CA 95240

✨Community Spotlight

📸 via calivirgin.com

The Coldani Family & Calivines Winery & Olive Mill

Most families pass down recipes. The Coldani family passed down an entire farm. Four generations deep and over 100 years into working the soil of the San Joaquin Valley, the Coldanis didn't start with wine. They started with olives. And they started small, with every intention of keeping it that way. About twelve years ago they opened their Calivirgin brand on Thornton Road. The original plan was straightforward: grow the olives, press the oil, sell what they made. What nobody quite planned for was that the business would keep expanding.

The expansion that changed everything came in 2021, when the family celebrated a grand opening at their new building on Thornton Road — a full tasting room featuring both an olive oil bar and a wine bar under one roof. The idea had been fermenting for years. "Wines have a public presence in Lodi, and our evolving business plan included wine," said Julie Coldani, the family's marketing director. The pivot wasn't a departure from their roots. It was the natural next chapter for a family that had spent decades producing oil with that same obsessive attention to quality. After more than a decade of premium olive oil, they brought those same standards to small-batch wines, handcrafted from carefully selected Lodi grapes.

Today, their tasting room on Thornton Road is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with a covered outdoor space that's kid and pet-friendly, and live music every Sunday afternoon. It's one of those spots where you walk in for a quick tasting and leave two hours later with a bottle of Malbec and a jar of lemon jalapeño olive oil you didn't know you needed. If you haven't been out there yet, the Calivines Winery & Olive Mill is the kind of place that makes you feel lucky to live here.

📍 13950 N Thornton Rd, Lodi, CA 95242

🎶 LIVE MUSIC

— JUNE —

Fri - Jun 5

  • GeorgeTowne (Country Acoustic) | 6:00–9:00 PM 

    • 📍 Jessie's Grove Winery - 1973 W Turner Rd, Lodi

Sat - Jun 6

  • Summit Band (Dance / Rock / Pop) | 5:00–8:00 PM 

    • 📍 Jessie's Grove Winery - 1973 W Turner Rd, Lodi

Sun - Jun 7

  • Abigail Taylor (Country / Vocals) | 1:00–4:00 PM 

    • 📍 Jessie's Grove Winery - 1973 W Turner Rd, Lodi

  • DJ M-80 – Lodi Vinyl Tap (DJ / Vinyl) | 1:00–5:00 PM 

    • 📍 Idol Beer Works - 100 S Sacramento St, Lodi

Fri - Jun 12

  • Network Band (Classic Rock) | 6:00–9:00 PM 

    • 📍 Jessie's Grove Winery - 1973 W Turner Rd, Lodi

Sat - Jun 13

Sat - Jun 20

Sun - Jun 21

Wed - Jun 24 

— JULY 2026 —

Sat - Jul 11

Sat - Jul 18

  • Good Ol' Boyz (Country Hip-Hop) | 7:00–10:00 PM 

    • 📍 Five Window Beer Co. - 9 W Locust St, Lodi

Wed - Jul 22

Sat - Jul 25

— AUGUST 2026 —

Sat - Aug 8

Wed - Aug 26

Sun - Aug 23

Thanks for reading! It means more than you know that you take a few minutes out of your day to stay connected with our little corner of the world. See you around Lodi! 🍇

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