South Bay’s first Latin house music festival lights up downtown park

What was described as the first music festival of its kind in the South Bay had thousands of people jumping and swaying to Latin-infused house beats Saturday in San Jose’s Discovery Meadow park.

The 7-hour Latin house music festival was put on by social media influencers San Jose Foos, along with event organizers 15Utah and artist DJ Dials. Foos representative Chris Villa said the group had long wanted to do an event like this to uplift and showcase the San Jose community.

“We want...