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'Top Chef''s Angelo Sosa & Country's Kip Moore Headline Garlic Festival Entertainment

"Top Chef" sensation Angelo Sosa and country recording artist Kip Moore will headline the entertainment aspects of the Garlic Festival July 29-31.

The dynamic Sosa, voted the Season 7 viewer favorite on Bravo Television Network's "Top Chef" series, will appear all three days.

Sosa will join veteran pyro chefs The Vickroy Brothers on stage in the Cook-off Theater at 1:30 p.m. on Friday for a flame up demonstration. On Saturday Angelo will conduct a cooking demonstration in the Cook-Off Theater at 3 p.m. and Sunday he'll host the Garlic Showdown, an iron chef-format battle with a quartet of prominent Northern California professional chefs.

Musical entertainment will feature continuous live concerts on three stages presenting a wide range of sounds. Hot Country 95.3 KRTY will host MCA Country recording artist Moore, whose current hit, "Mary Was the Marrying Kind," is climbing the charts. Atlantic Records country singer Ty Stone, with the just released hit "American Style" will replace previously scheduled Brother Trouble and join fellow artists Moore and the Dirt Drifters on the Vineyard Stage July 30. The KRTY Triple Feature begins at noon.