Main Street Latin Festival hits Columbia this weekend [Video]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It’s about that time of year! The Main Street Latin Festival will be taking over downtown Columbia Saturday. 

Dozens of vendors, performers and community members will be celebrating Latino culture.

“It’s a wonderful way for the Hispanic community to come together and share in their culture and their pride and and have a good time,” Genny Padilla said. 

Padilla is the marketing director of the Main Street Latin Festival, she says this festival came to Columbia 21 years ago, with a purpose.

“There was a need there, there was an opening. There wasn’t anything that really celebrated or really educated people on the diversity of Latin America, and so we decided that this festival would be a good mechanism and a good way to share that and educate people on that,” she said. 

The festival will start at 11 a.m. until 10 …