OmahaNebraska.com here with…

Marcos Mora.

Please tell me a little bit about what you have done before, and then tell me about your project and organization.

Well, I’ve been doing event management for at least the last 20 years, growing up in South Omaha. We do the Cinco de Mayo and the September event, so this is a new event that we’re doing, Ritmo Music Fest that’s downtown. It’s kind of an expansion of what we’re doing from South Omaha.

I’ve been so excited for this, and I can’t thank your other organization enough for the free tickets as well.

Yeah, yeah.

Please tell me a little bit about them and then a little bit more about the planning and all of that that goes into this.

Yeah, Casa de la Cultura is based in South Omaha and really just always promoting South Omaha and trying to bring people and tourism to the business district. This was a little bit different because it’s in the middle of Omaha. We’ve never done anything outside of South Omaha because that’s everything we do. So we really wanted to just embrace all of Omaha because it’s growing and all the unique items are here in Omaha. So we just thought this would be kind of cool to do it somewhere else. It’s a beautiful park [Heartland of America Park], and we wanted to bring a variety of Latin music to this area. So that was the concept.

The weather is absolutely perfect today. You couldn’t have ordered it more beautiful.

I know. It’s a beautiful day, so that always helps. It’s going to pick up later once the sun starts to go down. People always come out a little bit later. But yeah, it’s a beautiful day.

Your next event…

Our next one is actually next week. It’s Cinco de Mayo Omaha.  So that’s next weekend, the whole weekend, May 15, 16, 17. And we’ll have our annual parade, which is huge. Our concerts and carnival rides, exhibitors…food, lots of food. So next week…we’re not done yet. After this week, we’ll keep on going.

Where can people go for more information?

For Cinco de Mayo, they can go to CDMOmaha.com. And for this one, it’s Ritmomusicfest.com.

And for Cultura?

For Cultura, that’s CulturaOmaha.com.

I’ll check. I know I have it on file. Is there anything you wish I would have asked or anything you’d like to add for people looking for a wonderful time, things to do, and to connect?

Well, everything we do is really about building bridges and the beautiful culture and food and aspect. I think that’s what’s cool, no matter what background you come from, just to kind of share that. We’re always excited to share that, so people get a little bit of taste of food or music or something maybe they’ve never experienced before.

I’ve really enjoyed your events, and this one has been fun so far. I can’t wait to get back.

Ritmo Music Festival
https://www.ritmomusicfest.com

Casa de la Cultura
https://www.culturaomaha.org
https://www.facebook.com/CulturaOmaha

Cinco de Mayo
https://www.cdmomaha.com

Heartland of America Park
https://theriverfrontomaha.com/visit-the-riverfront/heartland-of-america-park