Tickets are now on sale for the annual Fiestas Patrias Festival to be held in September in Aurora.
RiverEdge Park, in partnership with the city of Aurora’s Hispanic Heritage Advisory Board and the city of Aurora, announced on Friday that the 12th annual Fiestas Patrias Festival will take place on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 7 and 8, at RiverEdge Park, 360 N. Broadway in downtown Aurora.
The event, which raised over $200,000 in scholarship funds for Hispanic, college-bound Aurora residents in 2023, is returning in 2024 with Latin Grammy Award-winning bands El Banda Límon and Aurora’s own Alacranes Musical as headliners, according to a press release about the event.
Gates will open at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 7. Opening musical acts that day will include TikTok sensation Janeth Valenzuela at 5 p.m. and regional Mexican icon Jose Manuel Figueroa at 7 p.m., according to the release. El Banda Límon takes the stage at 9 p.m.
Gates will open at 3 p.m. Sept. 8. Live music that day will begin with Grammy Award winner Lupillo Rivera at 4 p.m., Mexican regional group Liberacion at 6 p.m., the El Grito chant at 7:45 p.m. and Aurora’s own Alacranes Musical, a Latin Grammy winner in 2009, at 8:30 p.m.
Fiestas Patrias will also feature food vendors, the traditional Parade of Nations and a ceremony to honor scholarship recipients from the past year.
Tickets for Saturday, Sept. 7, cost $20 for adults and $10 for children 11 years old and under. Tickets for Sunday, Sept. 8, are $20 for adults and $5 for children 11 years old and under. Children 2 years old and younger get in free to the festival.
Fiestas Patrias fans are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance at RiverEdgeAurora.com, while supplies last, event organizers said. Due to popular demand, there is no guarantee that tickets will be available for purchase at the event, according to the release.
Proceeds from Fiestas Patrias will go toward funding scholarships that assist college-bound students of Hispanic descent who live in Aurora, event organizers said. Scholarships are administered through the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley.
For more information on the festival, go to RiverEdgeAurora.com.
