Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Caribbean enthusiasts will be celebrating culture similarities in an enormous festival. Tropical music like salsa, merengue, plena will fill the air. More than 15,000+ people attend this festival each year. Oddles of Caribbean food to enjoy. This year, the country of focus this year is the Dominican Republic. Visit PRFestival.com

The festival will feature performances by international artists Tito Rojas & Edgar Daniel. Lorraine Torres will be performing Aguinaldos Puertorriquenos and there will be a live Comparza Cubana & Puertorriquena.

The festival will also feature performances by:

• Rudy Rincon
  
• Cecille, La Diabla
  
• Rainel Pino's Salsa Orchestra
  
• Pachangara
  
• Orquesta Salmerum &
  
• Orquesta Mi Rumba

The PR Cuban Festival will take place at City Hall in downtown Houston. Click here for a picture of CityHall. Some streets in downtown will be closed for the festival, it hasn't been mentioned which streets will be closed. Google Directions and a Map of Downtown will come in handy. In the map of downtown, CityHall is C 10.

To find the group inside the festival, please meet us at the VIP Tent. When you arrive at the fair, ask a festival employee to tell you were the VIP Tent is. The VIP tent will be to right of the stage. The group will be near the VIP tent. Please meet us inside the festival at 4:00pm, it will make it much easier to find one another.

Text messages probably work best to communicate; the music can be loud, which makes it hard to hear on phone calls. You can text message me at [masked].

Tickets can be purchased online for $8.00 a person. [Buy Tickets Online], and they can be purchased in person at Cafe Piquet and Dodo's Chicken.

This will be a one of a kind opportunity to meet Puerto Ricans and PR Enthusiasts in the Houston area. We'd like to have your help by spreading the word about the Puerto Rican Culture Meetup. We'll talk about the simple ways to help our meetup group grow.