This year's event is even bigger. It's been expanded to a four-day celebration, which was scheduled to start last night with a riverboat cruise. Events will run from noon till 11 p.m. tomorrow and from noon till 7 p.m. Sunday. Along with the usual array of children's activities, games, rides and food, there will be a Miss Fiesta Playera Model Search. And tomorrow's festivities will end with the traditional backward walk into the ocean, symbolizing a cleansing of the soul for the year to come.
Music is the festival's highlight, however.
Tomorrow's entertainment includes Pili Pili, Ya' Gozo, Orquesta Vibracion and Mambo Dancers. We have some Latin jazz, some salsa, merengue and Caribbean folk music. Events will run from noon till 11 p.m. tomorrow and from noon till 7 p.m. Sunday. The events tomorrow and Sunday will be at the SeaWalk Pavilion at Jacksonville Beach. Admission to the Jacksonville Beach festivities is free.