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This year’s Puerto Rican Festival theme is Generations.  We are extremely proud to be featuring acts that cover an array of musical genres from the different generations.  They include reggaeton (Angel y Khriz), bachata (Carlos y Alejandra), freestyle (Johnny O and Cynthia), salsa (Rey Ruiz and Victor Manuelle) and typical music (Plena Libre).

I am especially looking forward to seeing the freestyle act.  Yes I am a product of the 70′s and remember fondly listening to freestyle in Jr high school and high school.  I have fond memories of  visiting a record store (yes that is what we had) in NYC and bringing home vinyl records that literally consisted of ONE song.  Now their would literally be 4 or more versions of the song on this vinyl record, still you collected them one at a time.  I had a slew of these records of my favorite freestyle artists, Johnny O, Cynthia, Judy Torres, Lil Suzy, Stevie B, Noel, Lisa Lisa, George Lamond,  TKA, well the list is really endless.

I actually stopped listening to freestyle in the early 90′s.  I had now been captured by salsa music and well the fad just wore out.  Still there are people among us (like my boyfriend) who never stopped listening.  He literally owns over  100 freestyle cd’s and managed to compile on my iPod a sampling of some of those artist I cherished so much in the 80′s.    I even  recently discovered there is  a channel online (http://www.freestyle.fm/) where you can still listen to new freestyle music.

So if you are nostalgic to hear some of that great music, I invite you to come on Saturday, July 31st to the Puerto Rican Festival at Frontier Field VIP Lot.  I am sure you will be reliving some great fond memories, and if you bring your kids they will totally look at you like you are nuts (at least my son does when I play some of these old songs on my iPod).

Please visit our new website for more information: http://www.prfestival.com/

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