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Almost five thousand people representing the rainbow of cultures in Northeast L.A gathered for Lummis Day 2009, the 4th celebration of the annual multi-cultural festival, presented by the Autry National Center, the Annenberg Foundation and the neighborhood councils of Northeast L.A.
The Lummis Day Festival was created to celebrate the patchwork of cultures that enriches the city. Artists represented Latino, Tagalog, Native American, Anglo and African-American traditions. Music included blues, rock, banda, salsa, jazz and country. Dance troupes represented Philippine, Mexican, Pacific Island and jazz dance traditions. Poets, painters and culinary artists, all with local connections, added to the Festival's collection of cultures.
Lummis Day takes its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who joined the L.A. Times as the newspaper's first city editor in 1876. A prolific writer and photographer, Lummis was also one of the city's first librarians, founded the Southwest Museum and helped introduce the concept of multi-culturalism to Southern California.
Lummis Day 2009 Photos
Congratulations to Lummis Day organizers Eliot and Jain Sekuler, Ann Walnum, Carmela Gomes, Eddie Rivera, Maggie Barto, Michele Clark, Rosamaria Marquez, Britta Couris, Francisco Gomez, Randy Carrillo, Pam Hannah, Suzanne Lummis and many, many other dedicated volunteers for a fantasic, incredible Lummis Day 2009.
I created a flickr group here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/lummisday2009/
Anyone with Lummis Day photos, please feel free to join and add your images.
Do You Know The Way To Lummis Day?
Event parking on:
Note: No Parking along the park side of Figueroa Street Shuttle Buses will run from 9:30 am to 8:30 pm and will make the following stops:
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Countdown to Lummis Day June 7: Carlos Guitarlos
The Carlos Guitarlos band will perform on Stage One sometime around 4:00 in the afternoon.
From the Carlos Guitarlos website: Following a successful run through the L.A. music scene in the 80's, which was highlighted by recording gigs with Tom Waits and The Breeders, an invite to appear on The David Letterman Show, and a stint as lead guitarist/songwriter for the notoriously raucous Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs (immortalized in the Van Halen song of the same name), Carlos endured a lengthy absence from the music scene. Throughout the 90's and into the new millennium, Carlos could be found paying his dues on the streets of San Francisco, where he has become a street-corner legend, playing guitar to earn his keep. As a result of his hard living, Carlos landed in a San Francisco hospital fighting for his life with congestive heart failure, hence, Straight from the Heart (the title track was written from his hospital bed). That experience, combined with the alcohol-related death of his friend and former band-mate, Top Jimmy, proved to be the catalyst of his recent personal turnaround and career resurgence.
The 4th annual Lummis Day will take place Sunday June 7, 2009 at three locations: Lummis Home (poetry and music from 10:30am-noon), Sycamore Grove Park (music, dance, theater and food from12:30pm-7:30pm) and Casa de Adobe (art exhibits, from 1:00pm-6:00pm).
The 4th Annual Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles will be presented on Sunday, June 7 by the Autry National Center, the Annenberg Foundation and the neighborhood councils of Northeast Los Angeles (Arroyo Seco, Historic Highland Park, Greater Cypress Park, Eagle Rock, L.A. 32 and Glassell Park.) Media sponsors are KPFK Public Radio 90.7 and Univision KMEX Channel 35. Additional sponsorship is provided by the Highland Park Heritage Trust, Jose Huizar and Council District 14, Ed Reyes and Council District 1, the Department of Recreation and Parks, the Los Angeles County Arts Commisssion, and Poets Writers Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.
