LA Family Festival at the Hollywood Bowl
Item
Title
LA Family Festival at the Hollywood Bowl
Identifier
2022.006.005
Type
Document
Description
Official program for the L.A. Family Festival held at the Hollywood Bowl on October 17, 1987. The program includes a list of donors and supporters as well as a overview of the event. The event included an introduction with patriotic songs, the perfomance "L.A. IS" which according to the program, "This festive salute to the city of Los Angeles takes us on a musical tour of past and present- with dancing, singing and skatebording." The event also included a "Multicultural Music Pageant" hosted by Art Linkletter, the program sates "Feast your eyes and your ears on the smorgasboard of sounds and colors that makes the City of Los Angeles the melting pot of America." St. Mary's Ballet Folklorico is listed as one of the performers in this section of the program along with 29 other groups. The program focuses on patriotic songs and events. St. Mary's Ballet Folklorico was established at the behest of parents by Petra Lopez, Mary L. Hernandez, Juan Jose Ruiz de la Torre, and Jose Pepe Roa in 1974. Originally the group was supported by St Mary's Catholic Church but later relocated to Orangewood High School. Since 1974 the group has performed across Southern California.
Subject
St. Mary's Ballet Folklorico of Redlands
Cultural Celebrations
Music
Spatial Coverage
Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Temporal Coverage
1974-1987
Creator
Robert FJani Productions
Date
10/17/1987
Contributor
Inland Mexican Heritage
Format
.pdf
Language
English
Rights
Bibliographic Citation
Vasquez, Antonio Gonzalez, and Genevieve Carpio. Mexican Americans in Redlands. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2012.
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