26th annual Barrio Arts Festival is a family affair: ‘My food, my culture, my music’

As 12-year-old Charlisse Gomez opened the Barrio Arts Fest Sunday with a rendition of Bruno Mars’ “Risk It All,” she was thinking of her grandfather, who was a mariachi. Cheering her on from the crowd was her mother, Ivalisse Gomez, royalty of local Puerto Rican celebrations in her own right — she was crowned queen of the Puerto Rican People’s Day parade in 2000, the year before the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture opened and created the festival. “We’re blessed to have these…