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But changes may be in the works for the annual Hispanic culture celebration, including a possible location change and booking a big-time national act to perform next year.
This year, the event was held on May 3 in downtown Victoria and featured five bands, 30 vendors and 5,000 revelers dancing in the streets.
Vivian said the festival may be moved to Riverside Park or some other location next year if a downtown utility project interferes with the event.
“We’ll just have to wait to see what the city plans to do and play it by ear when it gets closer to the event next year,” he said.
In a meeting earlier this year, the city’s public works director, Lynn Short said the city is going to spend $42 million to replace deteriorating water and sewer lines downtown. The project will be done in four phases over at least the next 10 years, beginning this summer.
“We’ll just have to wait and see where they are next year at this time and see if they are working on a section of downtown that is away from De Leon Plaza,” Vivian said.
As for bringing in a national act to play at Noche, Vivian said nothing is definite yet and they haven’t started researching the idea, but it’s something the committee is very interested in.
“Right now we’re really just kicking around ideas. We haven’t sat down yet to dissect this year’s event, to see what our strengths and weaknesses were,” Vivian said. “But every time you do an event like this, it’s a learning experience and you always want to make it bigger and better.”
Vivian added that although the event has stayed steady for the past 10 years in both attendance and number of vendors, next year they are hoping to take it up a notch.
“We want to make it something the public really embraces,” he said. “We’re just trying to make it a better event each year.”
Aprill Brandon is a reporter for the Advocate. Contact her at 361-580-6514 or abrandon@vicad.com.