Wednesday, July 1, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Fiesta heats up summer
Partiers enjoy food and music at church event
Les Danzantes de St. John perform a traditional Mexican dance at St. John' 17th Annual Mexican Festival. Photo by beth Janes / KANSAT
By Beth Janes
Kansan staff writer
Mix 400 pounds of ground beef, 200 pounds of rice, 200 pounds of beans and 24 gallons of hot sauce. Add some games, traditional Mexican dancers, music, a parking lot full of people and a summer-style simmer in 100 degree heat. The result: St. John's 17th Annual Mexican Fiesta
More than 500 people from Lawrence and surrounding areas braved the heat and packed the church grounds that 100 volunteers had transformed into fiesta central.
Music could be heard several blocks away Saturday night from the parking lot of St. John The Evangelist Catholic Church, 1229 Harmont Street.
Early in the evening, fiesta-goers ate tacos, burtis rottos and tamales and played games while "Los Danzantes de St. John" performed traditional Mexican dances. At about 8 p.m. the band Las Estrellas played while some of the crowd danced in front of the stage.
Mason Galloway, a KU graduate, and Seth Peattie, Plymouth, Minn., senior, live across the street and said they enjoyed the festival.
"It's neat to see an ethnic side to Lawrence," Galloway said. "The town strikes me as pretty homogeneous, so it's great to be here and celebrate the ethnicity and diversity."
Aurora Marin, Leoti junior,
attends church at St. John's. She
was on dunk tank duty Saturday and said that because of the heat, more kids wanted to be dunked rather than dunk others.
"My favorite part of the fiesta is the kids," she said. "I like making them happy and seeing them feel like they have accomplished something."
The fiesta began 17 years ago to raise funds for the then-new Corpius Christi Church, 1100 Kasold Drive. The members of St. John's continued holding the fiesta as a fund-raiser for their church.
Loretta Chavez attends church at St. John's and has been involved with the fiesta since the beginning. She led a core group of 12 women who began making tamales in February and froze them until the fiesta. They had been working all week preparing the 400 pounds of ground beef and mass quantities of other ingredients making traditional Mexican fare.
"We started mini, but now we're"
big. We have a big community and other churches come out and support us," Chavez said. "It is great to see everybody working together and having a good time."
Lawrence resident Buddy Langford has helped with the flesta since 1985. He predicted the festival would raise between $7,000 and $12,000.
"We are expecting a crowd," he said Friday while taking a break from setting up tables. "Three years ago it rained like heck, and the entertainment was washed out, but we still sold out of food. We know we have a product that people want."
Langford said that along with church members, people from other churches, Haskell Indian Nations University, the university of Kansas and Lawrence supported the fiesta.
"Nobody really signs up to help set up, you just know they are going to be here," he said. "I just enjoy working with the people. It's really a community event."
Singers perform at benefit
Jeff Smith, tenor for Measure X Measure, organized the project. Fellow group member and bass singer Cardell Edwards said that the purpose of the benefit was to raise money for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Douglas County and to showcase some a capella talent in Lawrence.
"We're here to support David (a member of Measure X Measure), who is my daughter's teacher at Century School in Lawrence, " said Erin Spiridigliozzo, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "It's a great cause and the community really appreciates the arts and cultural aspects of the city of Lawrence."
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Thirty-five minutes into the show, Measure X Measure took over for Slow Motion. The group's music was more fast-paced than Slow Motion and with the crowd already loosened up, the dancing and clapping went on non-stop.
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"People really like us," said Paul "Bud" Anderson, tenor of Measure X Measure. "And they respond to us really well."
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"Measure X Measure and mpact! are both a capella, which means all vocal," Edwards said before the show. "Slow Motion is really an R & B band, but are performing a capella tonight."
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After a brief intermission, mpact! took center stage and shook the house with their choir-like lyrics and intense choreography. Mpact! was named National Champions and Audience Favorites of the Harmony Sweepstakes in 1996. The group has appeared with Ray Charles, Bobby McFerrin, Spike Lee and other celebrities. The band just wrapped up its second CD and has been busy touring.
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Todd Moore, a case manager at Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Douglas County had not received a check for the benefit, however, he was an estimated $500 profit from the show.
Edwards and Anderson met other band members through association within their choir. All members of Measure X Measure attended the University of Kansas, and four members of the group performed as Eight To One at the University's Rock Chalk Revue from 1992 to 1996.
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