Roanoke Latino Festival
 

Organized by Hacienda
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
12:00  -  6:00 PM
Elmwood Park, , Downtown Roanoke

The organization HACIENDA is proud to present the 8th Latino Festival of Roanoke on Sunday October 9th.
From 12:00 pm through 6:00pm Elmwood Park will be the place were once again Latinos in Roanoke invite all other communities to join them and celebrate the Hispanic Heritage Month in the Roanoke Valley. The biggest Hispanic event in Southwest Virginia, Latino Festival is an opportunity for you to be more familiar with Latinos and their cultural heritage.
 

Becoming an annual tradition, this event is also educational and informative. Important agencies and businesses use this event to reach out the Hispanic community making their programs and services available for this relatively new community in the Roanoke Valley.
Do you want an authentic Latino culinary experience? Come to the Latino Festival and savor delicious typical dishes from Colombia, Honduras, Cuba, México, Peru, El Salvador and other Hispanic countries. Enjoy the colorful costumes and vibrant dances; listen to mariachi band music and singer Juan García from México; beautiful Argentinean Tango and Cuban Rueda de Casino performed by the Roanoke Ballet Theatre and live Tex Mex and Mexican Regional music among other performances. Join our public dancing with West End Mambo, a live Latino orchestra from North Carolina playing salsa, meringue, cumbia, mambo, cha cha, and other contagious rhythms!
 

Come for the food, for music and for the cheerful crowd!
Latino Festival of Roanoke is fun, is educational and is free!


 

Dancing for everyone!

Participating countries include: Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico

*Authentic delicious dishes from some of the countries mentioned above

* Children's programs, youth programs, information and community service

Contact information
Donations and general information
   Yolanda Puyana: 540 309 5053
Exhibitor and Food Vendors
  Cynthia Cardona, (540) 647-3213, 
   Donations
 Ricky Mitchell, (540) 985-0570
 

LATINO FESTIVAL- 2011
PROGRAM
M.C’s: Kelly Zapia, Jay Saunders, Santiago Prada, Edgar Ornelas and Yolanda Puyana

Details Coming Soon