Sep 20, 2021

Fiesta celebration for whole community, coming up Saturday

Posted Sep 20, 2021 2:51 PM

By NICK GOSNELL

Hutch Post

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The SW Bricktown Fiesta is coming up Saturday night.

"This year, we kind of opted out on the National Night Out and we decided to do a Hispanic festival in September," said Jesse Juma. "I saw Oscar Garcia at another concert and I said, could you ask your dad, would you think you guys would be able to get back together again? They haven't played in about eight years since they took a hiatus. I said, do you think your dad's band would get back together again for this Fiesta? I think Oscar and I both thought it was a reach, but he goes, yeah, I'll ask my dad. His dad turned around and came back and said yes."

Grupo Eclipse is getting the band back together and Garcia said it took some work to get things going again.

"We did have a bunch of guys throughout the years," Garcia said. "We figured there's 16 of us total. I played in the band for about 20 of those and I go to practice, and I couldn't just pick up the bass and play just about every song, because I didn't play them all. It was kind of a learning experience for all of us."

Though the celebration is commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month, other bands will also take the stage Saturday.

"O.T., I think he's pretty well known around the community, him and his son, Troy Tolbert are 3X1, we also have the Vieyra Brown Curiel Band, they offer a variety of different types of music," Garcia said. "The reason we're doing this is we want this to be more of a multicultural event. We are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, but we also want to bring everybody together, reunite the community and celebrate."

The event is from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. at SW Bricktown Park at 300 West Sherman in Hutchinson.