The Detroit News. The annual Cinco de Mayo parade will kick off at 1 p.m. Sunday. Mass celebrated at Ste. Concert featuring the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra and the Civic Jazz Orchestra at the plaza in front of Ste.
All events are free.
The center of the action is still at 21st and Bagley in Detroit's Mexican neighborhood, where a fiesta will hold forth Sunday afternoon with music, street dancing, food and other vendors. Also on Saturday, there'll be a mass at Ste. A Cinco de Mayo party is also planned at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Volcano Grill in the Star Southfield Theatre complex. The battle is considered a turning point that led to the end of foreign domination of Mexico. The event did not mark Mexican independence from Spain, however.