Fantastic Music
2011 Cinco de Mayo festival will feature live entertainment on two stages, DJs, and roaming street performers. Over ten bands will perform throughout the course of the day. The main stage located at California & Cherokee will feature traditional Mexican performances while the Gringo Stage located at Oregon & Cherokee will showcase local bands selected by the St. Louis Secret Sound Society.
Mesmerizing Parade
Unlike any other parade in the country, the People’s Joy Parade is a grassroots menagerie of crepe paper float makers, home made costume fashionistas, b-boys/girls, midnight minstrels, Gigante puppeteers, art cars, bike brigades, moving installation artists, Elvis impersonators, cardboard bricoleurs, rainbow dancers, knights of St. Louis, drag queens, beat making marching bands, Mexican wrestlers, robot makers, Virgin of Guadalupe’s, and any lost members of the Missouri tribe.
More InfoBreakthrough Art
festival showcases a wide variety of creatives offering handmade wares from Cherokee Street, the greater St. Louis region and beyond. Live art demonstrations by Cherokee Street based Art Dimentions artists will take place on the east block of the festival between Iowa & California. Original artwork created during the festival is presented and auctioned off on the main stage at 5pm.