The Calle Ocho Music Festival (Festival de la Calle Ocho) is a one-day fiesta that culminates Carnaval Miami. It takes place in March in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, Florida, between SW 12th Avenue and 27th Avenue on SW 8th Street.[1]
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The festival is one of the largest in the world, and over one million visitors attend the Calle Ocho event. It is a free street festival that showcases Pan-American culture.[2][3] In 2020–2021, it went on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4][5]
Calle Ocho started in 1978 as a way for Cuban immigrants to express themselves and educate South Floridians about their culture in their community.[6][7] The festival's focus grew to include participation from all Latin American countries.[8]
On March 6, 2020, Miami mayor Francis Suarez and two other city officials announced during a press conference that the Miami municipal government denied Calle Ocho organizers a permit to hold a festival in 2020 following health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic; the 43rd festival returned in 2022 after a two-year hiatus.[4][5]
Programedit
The annual festival shuts down 28 blocks of SW 8th Street in order to host dancing, food, drinks and 30 stages of live entertainment.[10]
The stages are located throughout Little Havana, and host a variety of Latin music genres from Latin America and the Caribbean,[11] from merengue to top 40 pop music.
Carnaval Miami is organized and sponsored by the Kiwanis Club service organization of Little Havana.[12]
The stages represent the main radio and television networks in the country, for example Univisión, where in 2019 he presented a revelation artist of urban music, from New yorker with Ecuadorian roots, Mando el Pelado, who represented the Ecuadorian communities residing in Miami.
Recognitionsedit
In 1988, the festival set the Guinness World Record with 119,986 people in the world's longest conga line.[13]
In 1990, a world-record-breaking 10,000-pound piñata was featured.[14]
In 2000, the Guinness World Record was set for the world's longest cigar.
In 2008, Calle Ocho broke the record for the most domino players at the event.
In 2010, the Florida legislature identified the Calle Ocho-Open House 8 festival as an official state festival.[15]
In 2012, the festival broke the world record for the largest flag image ever created. The flag measured 250 feet long and 36 feet wide, and was marched down the street by over 100 volunteers[16]
Referencesedit
^. Miami All Around. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
^"Calle Ocho - Miami Calle Ocho festival - El Festival de la Calle Ocho". holamiami.com.
^. Archived from the original on April 22, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
^Antonio Jorge; Jaime Suchlicki; Adolfo Leyva de Varona (January 1, 1991). Cuban Exiles in Florida: Their Presence and Contributions. Transaction Publishers. pp. 27–. ISBN978-1-4128-4490-1.
^"Another successful Calle Ocho in the books" 2015-04-01 at the Wayback Machine. Liane Morejon, reporter, Local 10.
^. miamiandbeaches.com. Archived from the original on November 25, 2014.
^Ronald H. Bayor (July 31, 2011). Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans. ABC-CLIO. pp. 438–. ISBN978-0-313-35786-2.
^"Calle Ocho Breaks World Record In Miami For Largest Flag Image Ever Created (PHOTOS)". The Huffington Post. March 12, 2012.
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