Annual Fiesta Boricua Underway

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - Local News

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - Local News

This year’s celebration of the 20th anniversary of the installation of the two gigantic steel Puerto Rican flags that serve as the gateways to Division Street, the heart of Chicago’s Puerto Rican community, and the establishment of Paseo Boricua continues this weekend with Fiesta Boricua, now on its 22nd year. Headliners this year include the innovative salsa band Orquesta El Macabeo (performing Sunday at 8 pm), whose members came from Puerto Rico’s underground music scene and one day decided to join forces to play salsa the way it used to be played: hard and gritty; Siete Nueve’s equally innovative fusion of hip-hop, jazz and bomba (Saturday, 6:15 pm); singer-songwriter Fernandito Ferrer whose work has been compared to Tracy Chapman, Nick Drake and Silvio Rodriguez (Sunday, 5:10 pm); salsero Domingo Quiñones (Saturday, 8pm); and local bomba and plena stalwarts Afri-Caribe (Saturday, 5 pm) and Bomba con Buya (Sunday, 5:35 pm). The festival takes place September 5th and 6th on Division Street, between Western and California.

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