{"id":50946,"date":"2003-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/puerto-plata-merengue-festival-3\/"},"modified":"2003-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T00:00:00","slug":"puerto-plata-merengue-festival-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/11\/04\/puerto-plata-merengue-festival-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Plata Merengue Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Puerto Plata Merengue Festival is on for Constitution Day?s long weekend ?<br \/>\nFriday, 7 November through Monday, 10 November. The festival is being sponsored<br \/>\nby the Tourism Ministry, the Puerto Plata Hotel Association and the Governor of<br \/>\nPuerto Plata. On the agenda is a gastronomic festival and merengue bands will<br \/>\nperform at the Puerto Plata?s Malecon, Playa Dorada, Sos?a, Cabarete and Cofres?.<br \/>\nThere will be a parade and folkloric dancing on the Malec?n on Friday, November 6.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule of merengue acts is as follows: <\/p>\n<p>Thursday 6 NovemberCofres?<br \/>\namphitheater &#8211; 7:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  Kinito Mendez<br \/>\n  Pablo Mart?nez y Parada Joven<br \/>\n  Heriberto Reynoso<\/p>\n<p>Puntilla del Malec?n &#8211; 9:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  Los Potros<br \/>\n  Los Rosario<br \/>\n  Jhonny Ventura<br \/>\n  Grupo Atabales Grayumba<\/p>\n<p>Playa Dorada &#8211; 7:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  Krispy<br \/>\n  Diomedes y el grupo mio<br \/>\n  Fefita La Grande<br \/>\n  Samuelito almonte<\/p>\n<p>Friday 7 November<br \/>\nPlaya Dorada Plaza, Playa Dorada &#8211; 4:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  Local cocktails contest<\/p>\n<p>Cabarete &#8211; 7:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  Jossie Esteban<br \/>\n  Marcos Caminero<br \/>\n  Levi y Papulito<\/p>\n<p>Puntilla del Malec?n &#8211; 9:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  Fernando villalona<br \/>\n  Tulile<br \/>\n  Tamarindo<br \/>\n  Nicol Pe?a<\/p>\n<p>Playa Dorada &#8211; 7:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  Jhonny Ventura<br \/>\n  Leo subervi<br \/>\n  Los potros<br \/>\n  Ramon Santos<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 8 November<\/p>\n<p>Puntilla del Malec?n &#8211; 2:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  Preparation of the world&#8217;s largest drink: Discovery Cocktail<\/p>\n<p>Sos?a &#8211; 7:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  La coco Band<br \/>\n  Rasputin<br \/>\n  Fascualito Henriquez<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Plata Village Hotel &#8211; 8:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  Dominican cooking contest<\/p>\n<p>Puntilla del Malec?n &#8211; 9:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  krispy<br \/>\n  La India Canela<br \/>\n  La Coco Band<br \/>\n  Silvio y la mezcla<br \/>\n  Grupo camuflaje<\/p>\n<p>Playa Dorada &#8211; 7:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  Silvio y la mezcla<br \/>\n  La india canela<br \/>\n  Tamarindo<br \/>\n  Ivelisse Tavarez y ballet folklorico (Puerto<br \/>\n  Plata)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday 9 November<\/p>\n<p>Luper?n &#8211; 7:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  Marcos Caminero<br \/>\n  La Coco Band<br \/>\n  El caballito de Puerto Plata<\/p>\n<p>La Puntilla del Malec?n &#8211; 9:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  La Coco Band<br \/>\n  Kike Mangu<br \/>\n  Tamarindo<br \/>\n  Top 4<br \/>\n  Caf? claro<\/p>\n<p>Playa Dorada &#8211; 7:00PM<\/p>\n<p>  India Canela<br \/>\n  Marcos Caminero<br \/>\n  Leo Subervi<br \/>\n  Grupo Atabales grayumba<\/p>\n<p>Look for the bands that will be playing at La Puntilla del Malecon, the parking<br \/>\narea of Playa Dorada, the Cofres? amphitheater, Cabarete, Sos?a, Puerto Plata<br \/>\nVillage recreational area, the parking area in Sos?a and in Luper?n.<br \/>\nNote: In each of the presentations we&#8217;ll<br \/>\nhave a fireworks show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Puerto Plata Merengue Festival is on for Constitution Day?s long weekend ? Friday, 7 November through Monday, 10 November. The festival is being sponsored by the Tourism Ministry, the Puerto Plata Hotel Association and the Governor of Puerto Plata. On the agenda is a gastronomic festival and merengue bands will perform at the Puerto &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/11\/04\/puerto-plata-merengue-festival-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[235,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}