La Fiesta del Pueblo returns to Tifton for 28th anniversary

TIFTON, Ga. (WALB) — Tifton will be hosting the annual La Fiesta del Pueblo for the 28th year in a row this September, according to the City of Tifton Facebook page.

The festival celebrates Hispanic and Latin American cultures through traditional food, art, and music.

The event will open with its Miss Fiesta del Pueblo Beauty Pageant on Sept. 12th at Tift Theatre for Performing Arts at 6:30 p.m.

After that, a Hispanic art exhibit will run from Sep. 18-25 at 2-4:00 p.m., and the main festival will be held Sept. 26 from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

According to the event’s webpage, La Fiesta del Pueblo started in 1993 as a photography project for Hispanic students and quickly grew into the celebration of Hispanic, Latino cultures it is today.

The festival made Tifton its home in 2003 and has been held there every year except 2020-2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

*Part of the event’s profits are put toward the Maria Guadalupe Cervantes Scholarship available to freshmen and sophomores at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton.*

In a 2025 interview with WALB, the event’s founder, Dina Willis, said the festival gives Tifton’s community “a taste from different countries.”

The event is free to enter, and the street festival will be at Fulwood Park in Tifton. More information can be found at www.lafiestadelpueblotifton.org/index.html.

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