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East LA Parade & Festival
East Los Angeles, CA · Holiday
- When
- September 13, 2026
- Where
- Cesar Chavez Avenue · East Los Angeles · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Cesar Chavez Avenue closes for a Mexican Independence Day parade and festival that has run in East LA for decades, marking Fiestas Patrias with floats, marching bands and folkloric dancers. A festival with food and live music follows the parade route. The 2026 edition marks its 80th year.
The history within reach
- East LA Parade & Festivalsame spot
Cesar Chavez Avenue closes for a Mexican Independence Day parade and festival that has run in East LA for decades, marking Fiestas Patrias with floats, marching bands and folkloric dancers.
John Landis directed the fourteen minute film that came out on 2 December 1983 and cost about half a million dollars, and the part everyone can still do from memory was shot here, in the roadway of Union Pacific Avenue just west of the Calzona Street corner.
A procession from Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights to East LA Civic Center Park, with dancers, poets, and musicians leading the way, followed by an altar exhibition and celebration.
A free annual tribute to Santa Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, held at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights since 1989.
A railroad hospital that declined with its neighbourhood and closed in 1991, then spent two decades as a horror film set before conversion to senior housing.