Samba dancers sporting headdresses of brilliant crimson, yellow and orange, traditional African drummers, giant puppets, Caribbean music — this is just a smattering of the delights in San Francisco’s Carnaval Memorial Day weekend event Saturday and Sunday.

The free two-day festival covers 17 blocks on Harrison Street between 16th and 24th streets, and is billed as the largest and longest-running multicultural celebration in California, drawing an estimated 400,000 people.

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