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Downtown Richmond shows its heart at Spirit and Soul Festival
8th Spirit and Soul Festival brings live music, food and shop to Downtown Richmond residents.
Read MoreSpirit and Soul festival aims to revive downtown
The seventh annual Spirit and Soul Festival filled downtown with the rhythmic beats of jazz musicians and the enticing smells of fried chicken and barbecue. Put on by the Richmond Main Street Initiative, a nonprofit organization that works to reinvigorate the downtown, the festival drew about 800 people this year–and there would have been more, organizers insisted, were it not for the sizzling heat.
Read MoreRichmond hears El Grito de Dolores loud and clear
The Mexican flag, carried carefully without touching the floor, dwarfed Marco Negrete, a diplomatic attaché from the Mexican Consulate General in San Francisco, as he carried it onto the stage in Richmond’s Restaurante la Revolución. From the stage, Negrete stood before the band’s instruments, and gazed out at hundreds of people who had gathered from…
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