Festive Celebration. Cinco de Mayo Festival Brings Vibrancy and Culture to Downtown: A Celebration by Mexicarte Museum

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Cinco de Mayo Festival Brings Vibrancy and Culture to Downtown: A Celebration by Mexicarte Museum

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Mustilos amigos, the bienveridos a la fete Cinco de Mayo. Hey y'all, it's Gary downtown. Uh, Republic Square Park and uh this is the uh Cinco de Mayo festival, uh, sponsored by the uh Mexicarte Museum. Let's take a look and see what we can see. Accordion music going on right now. Quite a big stage set up. Music going on throughout the morning. Just panning around here, you can see maybe 20 or so booths set up, uh lots of arts and crafts going on. Yeah, great little vibe. Uh, still early. I think it'll probably pick up a little bit later on in the morning. But it looks like there's been plenty out here for the, the kiddos to get into, uh, look at the uh. He's like Buenos dias todos y bienvenido a la fete de Cinco de Mayo. This is Gary. I'm downtown at Republic Square Park, and this is the Cinco de Mayo festival sponsored by the uh Mexicate Museum. Let's see what we've got over here. Big stage set up. We've got a young lady playing accordion at the moment, but looking at the amount of equipment out here, we're gonna see some bands later on as well. I would say there's probably 20 or 25 booths set up, very kid friendly event. I'm seeing, uh, face painting, uh, water coloring, some beautiful flowers over here. Let's give you a 360 pan around. There’s a little food area over here. I'm sure there must be some empanadas somewhere. Right in the shadow of the downtown high rises, yeah, what a beautiful uh cultural event this is.