{"id":63048,"date":"2015-05-05T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T16:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=63048"},"modified":"2015-05-05T10:10:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:10:05","slug":"video-cinco-de-mayo-celebration-in-palmdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/05\/05\/video-cinco-de-mayo-celebration-in-palmdale\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Cinco de Mayo celebration in Palmdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tr0eHgBL8PU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PALMDALE \u2013 Banda, mariachi, norte\u00f1a and tropical music highlighted Palmdale\u2019s Cinco de Mayo celebration, which took place Sunday, May 3, at Desert Sands Park.<\/p>\n<p>The music festival attracted several hundred attendees and included the following artists: Gissel Becerra, Los Gemelos de Sinaloa, Chino Aguirre, Banda La Movida, Mariachi Sonido internacional and Graciela Beltran.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third year that the Tavera Foundation has sponsored a daylong Cinco de Mayo celebration for the City of Palmdale.<\/p>\n<p>Cinco de Mayo\u2014or the fifth of May\u2014commemorates the Mexican army\u2019s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War, according to history.com. The holiday has evolved into a celebration of Mexican culture and heritage, particularly in areas of the United States with large Mexican-American populations. Read more about the history of Cinco de Mayo at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/holidays\/cinco-de-mayo\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/holidays\/cinco-de-mayo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>View sights from the local celebration in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE \u2013 Banda, mariachi, norte\u00f1a and tropical music highlighted Palmdale\u2019s Cinco de Mayo celebration, which took place Sunday, May 3, at Desert Sands Park. The music festival attracted several hundred attendees and included the following artists: Gissel Becerra, Los Gemelos de Sinaloa, Chino Aguirre, Banda La Movida, Mariachi Sonido internacional and Graciela Beltran. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":63049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}