This past weekend in Cabarete, the eXtreme Hotel and Mojito Bar Cabarete hosted the first ever Cabarete Festival! Despite the spring showers, it was an extraordinary night full of delicious food, live musical performances, a local mercado, circus acts, fire dancing and much more! A big thanks from the eXtreme Hotel and Mojito Bar Cabarete to our local community and all of our artisans, vendors and sponsors for coming out and supporting the event.
Entertainment was plentiful at the first Cabarete festival, many talented performers had the chance to show their stuff on our stage and the dance floor.
Live music by Funghi Tuning and some fancy footwork by Alma Libre Dance School!
Local artisans brought tons of creativity to the first Cabarete Festival! Locally made goodies ranged from bikinis to baked goods to body care products!
Raiz all natural products are an awesome way to take a piece of the first Cabarete Festival home with you and smell amazing.
Everyone wants to remember the highlights, so we crafted a light ring and ran our own photo booth!
eXtreme Hotel’s manager, Gigi, looking with boyfriend Arturo, founder of Kikaboni.
For more pictures from the Cabarete Festival check out the Mojito Bar Cabarete Facebook page. Don’t forget to tag your self and let us know what your favorite part of the event was! The highlight for me was the circus performances by Kaicetous Circus, I was so mesmerized by the strength and grace of the performers I didn’t even capture a photo.
These guys killed it on the dance floor and still had time to have some fun with us at the photo booth!
Finishing off the Cabarete Festival, Kaicetous Circus’s own, 11 year-old Kai spinning fire poi!
To end our first ever Cabarete Festival, we figured we needed an epic grande finale. Four fire dancers performed and brought the house down! Thanks to all who came out to the event, we were thrilled to see our community coming together and supporting the local arts! We hope to host more events in the future so keep an eye out on our Facebook page and around town.
Post by Lynsey Wyatt.
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