'Baryo HiFi' in Historic Filipinotown celebrates AAPI Heritage Month | TFC News California, USA
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Beverly Boulevard is one of Los Angeles' many streets that connects many communities,
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but to kick off Asian Pacific American Heritage Month,
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the Filipino community shut it down to turn it into barrio hi-fi.
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Stage performances by global rising musicians,
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award-winning celebrity Pinoy chefs,
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uniquely Pinoy products,
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and yes, a karaoke contest hosted by Grammy-nominated Phil-am rapper Wapdad 4000.
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Thousands packed the streets of historic Filipino town for the first-ever barrio hi-fi.
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It's amazing. It's a very, very good, you know. This is a successful one.
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It's amazing. It's a great turnout. Great turnout.
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Really great turnout, a beautiful event for the community to come together. It's amazing.
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This is like a very good thing to see, man.
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Just our culture, our people, our artists coming up.
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It's a really good scenery, man. I love it, man.
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Originally conceptualized five years ago,
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this free event was planned by members of the Hi-Fi Coalition
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with the mission to promote historic Filipino town as a cultural hub.
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After the original plans were shelved during the pandemic,
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the coalition along with big-time sponsors like Joe Coy stepped in
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to bring the festival to life with less than two months of planning,
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and Mixed Global came aboard as a media partner.
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We really wanted to do something really different and go really big in how we do that
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and really partner with the entire creative community.
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So we have everything from food, art, fashion, music, entertainment,
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it's all on one block.
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It's really a big honor to be able to do something that is for our culture, for our people,
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and being able to do it on such a big scale.
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Beverly Boulevard in the heart of historic Filipino town is just such a blessing.
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We're just continuing on the work that others before us started in Hi-Fi,
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so we're glad to be this next generation that's being the catalyst of things that are going to activate historic Filipino town.
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Artists such as Bay Area rapper P-Lo,
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New Jersey's Yeek,
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Filipino-Australian music sensation Rini,
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and many more turned this street party into a global affair and celebration of culture.
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I feel happy and prideful because this is thrown by a lot of Filipinos,
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the Filipino community basically in LA,
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and I just love seeing everybody come together and celebrate our culture.
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This really warms my heart because a lot of this is very reminiscent of stuff that I grew up with,
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family, seeing all my cousins, seeing all my, like, it feels like I'm with my uncles and my aunties, like a family party.
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Long food lines may have made grabbing a quick bite a bit difficult,
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but John Legaspi from San Francisco put on the ultimate fast food display in the lumpia eating contest,
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winning $1,000 in post-made credits by devouring 15 lumpias in a little over a minute.
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I think you are good!
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I had to really lock in, shove it down my mouth, and put some, it helped a lot with some liquid.
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With plenty of food and memories to make Ba'on home,
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the first ever Barrio Hi-Fi proved to be the ultimate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month block party
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and helps to be a new proudly Pinoy tradition in the City of Angels.
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Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN News, Los Angeles.
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Thank you for watching!
