A “smorgasbord of musical flavors” will be presented this Saturday, July 31, at Railroad Park in Toppenish, during the New Life Hispanic Ministries’ Festival of Life.
Featured artists will be Cale Moon and Anita Garcia.
Moon is a 16-year-old country singer who recently won the Union Gap Old Town Days teen idol contest and is a gold medal winner at the 2009 World Championship of the Performing Arts.
He has written more than 30 songs and is scheduled for a recording session in Nashville, Tenn.
Garcia is a former Toppenish resident whose music ranges from R&B to Contemporary Christian to Soul.
She recently released her debut CD entitled “Rain.”
Other performers will be the local band Firmamento and Mattus from Guadalajara.
The festival will run from 2 to 8 p.m., and will include everything from rock to ranchero music, in English and Spanish, according to event organizer Nate Montgomery.
Skits and pantomimes will be performed between musical acts.
There will also be a number of food vendors on hand during the festival. Vendors will be setting up beginning at noon.
The festival is free of charge, and those attending are encouraged to bring chairs and blankets for seating.
The purpose of the festival is to “get the community together,” Montgomery said.
He said he got the idea for the event after attending the Toppenish Whistlestop! festival last year.
The event is being sponsored by the Calvary Bible Church of Toppenish.
Sixty-five short-term missionaries will be in Toppenish to take part in the festival and in a series of activities the following week.
These missionaries will come from Mexico, Costa Rica Panama, Venezuela and Dallas, Texas.
Mattus will perform in Post Office Park on Monday, Aug. 2, The Jesus Film will be shown in Lincoln Park on Tuesday, Aug. 3 and a puppet show will be presented in Olney Park on Wednesday, Aug. 4.
For more information on the event, call (509) 930-1304 for  Spanish, or (509) 865-3286 for English.