The group Banda S7 treats the crowd to live Banda music Sunday in downtown Watsonville during a celebration of Mexican Independence Day. Thousands attended the open air event put on by Fiestas Patrias for the 28th year in a row. Mexican food, dancing, merchandise booths and seven live bands filled the event. The show was dedicated to the long-standing Watsonville Mariachi band leader and composer Eleazar Cortes, who died Sept. 7 in Mexico of a stroke, according to organizer Oscar Rios.

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TARMO HANNULA
Tarmo Hannula has been the lead photographer with The Pajaronian newspaper in Watsonville since 1997. More recently Good Times & Press Banner. He also reports on a wide range of topics, including police, fire, environment, schools, the arts and events. A fifth generation Californian, Tarmo was born in the Mother Lode of the Sierra (Columbia) and has lived in Santa Cruz County since the late 1970s. He earned a BA from UC Santa Cruz and has traveled to 33 countries.

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