The Wabash County Diversity Coalition in partnership with Honeywell Arts & Entertainment hosts the Hispanic Heritage Festival to celebrate local culture featuring music, dancing, and food in North Manchester.

Sones de Mexico Ensemble headlines the event at 6PM in Warvel Park, including corridos from the America 250 project sponsored by the NEA, and a newly composed corrido written by Manchester Jr-Sr High School students the day before.

“Corridos of the Semiquincentennial: Voices of Courage and Hope,” is a musical storytelling project developed by Sones de México Ensemble to honor eight national heroes through the creation and performance of eight new traditional Mexican corridos.

Corridos are epic ballads and heroic tales that date back to the 1840s. They narrate stories and celebrate remarkable acts of courage and defiance from a folk perspective.

This performance is free and open to the public.

This program is sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts | America 250.