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Calling All Saints and Lost Souls: The Day of the Dead awaits you at Bone Garden Cantina! Get ready for a rockin' day of festivities including cool music, caliente senoritas, knee-slapping good Mexican eats and free flowing tequila.
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Enjoy food and drinks specials, plus performances throughout the day. ALMA MEXICANA, a group of traditional Mexican dancers, will perform again this year starting at 1:30 PM. Then, it's the return of our very own - the lovely LAS SENORITAS DEL MUERTOS featuring Las Rosita, Queen of Los Muertos! They will keep the party going from 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM. And in between then we'll have loads of other fun! Come have your jarrito filled with tequila, pose in the Dia de Los Muertos cut out, and take home your very own Sugar Skull! Click here for event info! We'll see you there!
History of El Dia de Los Muertos:
Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de Muertos) is a Mexican holiday observed throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico where the day is a bank holiday. The celebration takes place on October 31, November 1 and November 2, in connection with the triduum of Allhallowtide: All Hallows' Eve, Hallowmas, and All Souls' Day.[1][2]Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars called ofrendas, honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these as gifts. They also leave possessions of the deceased.
Scholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddessMictecacihuatl. The holiday has spread throughout the world. In Brazil Dia de Finadosis a public holiday that many Brazilians celebrate by visiting cemeteries and churches. In Spain there are festivals and parades and, at the end of the day, people gather at cemeteries and pray for their dead loved ones. Similar observances occur elsewhere in Europe, and similarly themed celebrations appear in many Asian and African cultures.
Source: Wikipedia
Scholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddessMictecacihuatl. The holiday has spread throughout the world. In Brazil Dia de Finadosis a public holiday that many Brazilians celebrate by visiting cemeteries and churches. In Spain there are festivals and parades and, at the end of the day, people gather at cemeteries and pray for their dead loved ones. Similar observances occur elsewhere in Europe, and similarly themed celebrations appear in many Asian and African cultures.
Source: Wikipedia
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