POP/ROCK - Aug. 10, 1987

Menudo keyboardist Victor Junquera, 33, was found dead in his room at a Kansas City hotel Friday, apparently from natural causes, police said. Menudo, the group of five Puerto Rican adolescents, did not cancel either of its two shows Friday night at Worlds of Fun.

It was a big weekend for festivals: Rhode Island’s Newport Folk Festival opened Saturday to crowds of 5,000. Featured performers: Joan Baez, John Hammond, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, Judy Collins, Bonnie Raitt and Billy Bragg. . . . In Galax, Va., more than 1,700 pickers and players from around the world filled the air with the sound of fiddles, guitars, banjos and dulcimers at the 52nd annual Old Fiddlers Convention. Crowds of 30,000 to 40,000 are expected to attend the four day fest. . . . In Scotland Sunday, the 41st annual Edinburgh Festival opened with a cast of thousands and a procession of 70 floats. This year’s festival features theater, opera, dance, film, music, books and art and plays host to the largest cultural delegation the Soviet Union has ever sent to the West.