Pacific Mambo Orchestra, Film, Fiesta Street Party At Lesher Center

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA — Walnut Creek's Lesher Center this weekend is hosting its fourth annual Fiesta Cultural featuring two days of Latin American art, music, dance and more.

The celebration takes place on Friday and Saturday with two different events. It kicks off Friday night with a concert by the Grammy Award-winning Pacific Mambo Orchestra.

The San Francisco-based outfit is widely recognized as one of the premiere mambo/Latin jazz bands in the world, known for merging the traditional sounds of Tito Puente and other mambo kings with its own contemporary influences. The 20-member band won its Grammy in 2014 in the Best Tropical Latin Album category for its debut recording.

So versatile is this group, its setlist features mambo-flavored covers of Stevie Wonder's "Overjoyed," Dizzy Gillespie's "Night in Tunisia" and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto. The concert is at 7:30 p.m.; tickets are $50-$83 at www.lesherartscenter.org.

On Saturday, the festival takes it outside in the Fiesta Cultural Street Fair, with music and dance performances, films, workshops and more taking place around the Lesher Center from noon to 5 p.m.

Find the full schedule at lesherartscenter.org/events/fiesta-cultural.

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