Events

Palladium Voyage 2017 International Salsa Festival Bremen

Europe  / Germany / Bremen

Palladium Voyage 2017 International Salsa Festival Bremen – Germany April 7^th – 9^th

We invite you to be part of 2 nights of dancing, incredible performers & high quality workshops that will make you more comfortable on the dance floor at Bremen’s longest running Salsa Festival, The 8. Annual Palladium Voyage International Salsa Festival.

The City Hall and St. Petri Cathedral in the Market Square in Bremen Photo: https://www.hotel-hanseatic-bremen.de/en/index.html

Don’t miss it, because “quality never goes out of style”! This experience is truly one of a kind!

International & World Champions performers and teachers!
Home of the European Latin Dance Grand Prix!
Last year more than 50 confirmed performers/teachers & DJs representing over 17 countries, be excited for this year’s final line up!
27 years of Salsa expertise from his founder & Artistic Director: Gallo Suarez. Him & his team have invited quality performers from around the Globe for great performances, history & dance instruction.
2 very special nights of parties, dancing, learning, drinking, eating & making new friends!
Location in the heart of Bremen Friday, Saturday & Sunday: Schaulust Beim Handelsmuseum 9, Güterbahnhof Tor 48, 28195 Bremen.
The world’s very first Festival event honoring & celebrating Mambo & Salsa dancing origins… The Palladium Ballroom established in 1948!
Bremen Germany’s oldest & world wide recognized Annual Salsa Festival!
It is still an intimate event: meet, dance & learn from world champions & world class Salsa talent!
A showcase of Germany’s very best Salsa dance schools!
Our airport & main train station is only minutes away from our venues.

If you would like to participate at the European Latin Dance Grand Prix, please find all details here: http://eldgp.com

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6th International Kizomba Gala Hamburg

Europe / Germany / Hamburg

6^th International Kizomba Gala Hamburg – Germany 13 – 16 Oct 2017

We invited you to be part to one of the oldest and Best Kizomba Festivals in Germany. They are pioneers of Kizomba in Germany. They have a tradition of inviting 1st class International Teachers and DJs. Just follow their history of the Artists they have invited the last years. They brought most of the Artists you see at current Festivals in Germany for the first time. That tell you about the quality of this event.

We believe in Quality not Quantity!

They have invited first class International Instructors to teach you the proper way of Dancing Kizomba, Zouk and other African Dance. There will be an intensive 3 days Workshop starting from 9pm Friday – 07:00 pm Sunday, which will end with a Party. The Party will be thrill with shows and animations from the international instructors.

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Confirmed Artists

Helio Santos (Lisbon/Cabo Verde)
Tomas Keita (Barcelona/Guinea-Bissau)
Mauro D One and Ana Rita (Lisbon /Angola)
Lisandra Lopes (Lisbon/Cabo Verde)
Hugues & Ailina (Haiti/ Paris)
Abdel Zouk & Gabriella (Dusseldorf/Morroco/ Berlin/Curacao)
Ben & Adama (Hamburg/ Ghana/Cameroon)
Mattias & Kaou (Brussels / Morocco)

6th International Kizomba Gala Hamburg 2017

DJ’s

DJ Ze Zom (Angola/Copenhagen)
DJ Ben (Hamburg/Ghana)
DJ Dos Anjos (Rotterdam/ Cabo Verde)

and more to come…

Photo by Kristi Fuoco. http://blog.young-germany.de/2012/12/hamburg-germany-top-ten -reasons-i-love-living-here/

See more information at this page: http://www.kizombagala.com/

2nd Edition Kizomba-Salsa-Schiff July 8. Mississippi Queen Dampfer.

For the second time in Hamburg we are going to have a KIZOMBA SHIP with Salsa, Bachata and Zouk shared on 3 Floors. We have been able to book the Mississippi Queen with selected DJs & Live act. Germany Hamburg Überseebrücke South-East Ponton 20459.

Paris will party with Le Salsa Club Party – 18th September

Europe / France / Paris

Paris, the city of lights, is known for being a cosmopolitan city. Every month there is a special night where Latin music lovers and musicians have the chance to enjoy a new experience full of good music and dance lessons. LeSalsaClub’Party is the exclusive event where amazing DJ’s and artists of France offer an amazing show of Latin music.

This event is one of the biggest salsa party of Paris. It’s now taking place in the 13th district. This evening is dedicated to salsa dancers. You will meet teachers, international artists and especially on1/on2 social dancers. The atmosphere is non-elitist and open to all.

Paris will party with Le Salsa Club Party

The party is on September 18, and we promise you’ll have a great time because of the performance of the amazing DJ SER-J, the ambassador of salsa in Paris. His passion for music has always been a no-brainer, but it is with the salsa that she became ubiquitous. His collection grew quickly from CDs to vinyl. “A new way to listen to, greater harmonic richness, but especially the opportunity to get my hand on yet never digitized albums and therefore very little known.”

The party will be in 10-18 Rue Des Terres Au Curé 75013 Paris

For more information and prices, check the website: http://www.djser-j.com/ You can’t miss the night of your life! Soundcloud DJ Ser- J https://soundcloud.com/djser-j

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2017 in San Francisco

North America / USA / San Francisco

2017 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (YBG Festival) proudly announces the lineup for its:

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17th Season, which continues its tradition of bringing entertainment to downtown in San Francisco. May 7 – Oct 29, 2017, 760 Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103

To kick off the new season, the Grammy-winning Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra + VNote Ensemble will open the Festival on Sunday, May 7, the first of this year’s 100 admission-free events. The very popular series Let’s Go Salsa@Jessie also will be present with the best artists. YGB Festival offers you free music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, and children’s programs with artists from the Bay Area and around the world.

Named one of the Best Urban Green Spaces in North America by USA Today, Yerba Buena Gardens is a world-renowned cultural destination for Bay Area residents, families, workers, and tourists alike. Yerba Buena Gardens is located between Mission Street and Howard Street and 3rd and 4th Streets in downtown San Francisco. Visit www.ybgfestival.org or call (415) 543-1718 for more information and complete 17th Season schedule.

Yerba Buena Festival’s exciting 17th Season promises an exceptional array of talent to please all audiences.

YBG Festival Executive/Artistic Director Linda Lucero says, “Everyone needs the spiritual sustenance, inspiration, and communal experience that only live performance offers. This summer, you’ll find your joy at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival!”

The Grammy-award winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO), led by pianist, composer, and director Arturo O’Farrill, kicks off the Festival on Sunday, May 7 at 1:00pm. The ALJO brings together the drama of big band jazz, the culture of Latin music, and the virtuosity of eighteen of the world’s most accomplished solo musicians. Twelve years of critically acclaimed performances internationally have firmly established the ALJO as the standard-bearer for creative interpretation of Latin jazz greats such as Tito Puente, Frank “Machito” Grillo, and Chico O’Farrill, as well as the driving force behind new commissions from Latin music’s most talented composers and arrangers.

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra + VNote Ensemble

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival includes the very popular Let’s Go Salsa@Jessie dance series, the family-friendly Children’s Series, Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake, and Thursday Lunchtime Concerts. Each and every week and weekend, the Festival has curated a lineup of musicians, dancers, poets, and actors from around the world including the Bay Area’s Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble on May 13, Brass Convergence II: Protest Brass on May 20, Richard Howell & Sudden Changes on May 27, NEA Heritage Fellows Michael Doucet and Tom Rigney with Flambeau on June 3, Festival-commissioned YBG ChoreoFest, a three-day site-

specific dance festival featuring 9 contemporary dance companies on June 9–11, NYC’s own M.A.K.U. Soundsystem on June 17, Circus Bella on June 23–24, AXIS Dance Company’s The Garden Project on July 1–2, Festival-commissioned Theatre Rhinoceros’ Lear! on July 7–9, Ensemble Mik Nawooj‘s premiere of Death Become Love on July 15, San Francisco Mime Troupe on July 23, SF Uke Jam Summer Uke-splosion! with Ukulenny and Cynthia Lin on July 29, Daymé Arocena + Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble on August 19, Paula West on August 26, Kugelplex with special guest Linda Tillery on September 2, Alsarah & the Nubatones on September 9, and Brooklyn Raga Massive with Classical Revolution performing Terry Riley’s In C on September 16.

The Festival closes with the 17th Annual Halloween Hoopla Sunday, October 29.

The popular series Let’s Go Salsa@Jessie, the open-air salsa dance party in Jessie Square (near the Contemporary Jewish Museum), takes place on the third Thursday of each month from May to September from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. Performers are Changuí Majadero on May 18, La Mixta Criolla on June 15, Somos el Son on July 20, Bobi Céspedes on August 17, and the Festival return of Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca on September 21.

The Festival offers the delightful Children’s Series, interactive performances specially designed for kids and families every Friday from June to August in Yerba Buena Gardens. The series presents performances by kid favorites: Caterpillar Puppets, Ka-Hon, Red Panda Acrobats, Pi Clowns, Venezuelan Music Project, Crosspulse, Unique Derique, and Non Stop Bhangra. The series ends with the wildly popular 17th Annual Halloween Hoopla on Sunday, October 29.

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Commissions and Special Projects have commissioned the following projects to celebrate in June: Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest, a brand new 3-day dance festival, June 9-11. Playwright/director/actor John Fisher writes and directs Lear!, a site-specific satirical musical based on Shakespeare’s King Lear for Theatre Rhinoceros, the nation’s, and likely the world’s, first queer theater on July 7-9 and Circus Bella on June 23 and 24. Conceived and directed by Abigail Munn and Joel Baker for Circus Bella, the show will feature high level, local and guest circus artists and includes static trapeze, rope walking, juggling, contortion, unicycle, original clowning, acrobatics, and more.

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The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival also co-presents a series of admission-free outdoor programs with Union Square Live to be announced in April.

Crunkchata came to stay in USA

North America / USA / New York

Crunkchata is the new rhythm that takes over the Latin street in USA. All lovers’ music enjoy this type of melody for its contagious tempo that makes dance to latin dancer professional or amateur.

The name Crunkchata comes from the mixture between Crunk + Bachata. Crunk, from its origins, is a musical genre that fuses hip-hop music and electro music and originated with the concept of the word crunk, which come from the union of two words, crazy and drunk. For its part, Bachata is a cadence genre from Dominic Republic very famous around the world. Nowadays, the Bachata’s leaders are: Juan Luis Guerra, Romeo Santos and Prynce Royce, among many others.

However, the Crunkchata is leading vertiginously the top ranking of the most prestigious radios, web pages of specialized music, lists of downloads and nightclubs gaining the acceptance of a young public. The people don’t stop to sing the songs. It’s so exciting to dance when women and men get together as a couple to move their hips from side to side with the count of 1,2,3 gentle jumping up one foot to continue with the same count to the son of the Crunkchata. This rhythm so sensual comes to stay and its creator is TOBY LOVE.

This musician whose real name is Octavio Rivera, better known as Toby Love born in the Bronx – New York, on March 20, 1985. He is an American singer of Dominican and Puerto Rican origin.

“Toby” comes from the nickname of his father with the same (Octavio Rivera, former member of the group Classic Cluster Salsa) and “Love” is the second nickname that hey put him when he was a teenager for his amorous character.

Toby Love originally started as the second voice of the bachata group Aventura before becoming a soloist in 2006

During his stayed in Aventura he learned a lot about Bachata and later became part of Scarlito Enterteiment together with composer Anthony Lopez known as “Tony CJ” creating his own style. The main objective of Toby is to make the genre of bachata accessible to all the urban young people of the world.

His music is a fusion of R &B, hip hop with elements of traditional and modern Bachata; it defines as result a sound that the same artist likes to call “crunkchata”.

This style unique with the mix of urban rhythms and romantic genre whose songs are in English and Spanish, occupy the third in ranking popularity of the traditional Dominic’s music after Romeo Santos and Prince Royce in the period 2016 – 2017.

Only “Tengo un Amor” became viralized among the top popular Bachata’s videos on the youtube raking chart to get the third place with more than 28 millon views. Toby Love with much effort, dedication, perseverance, more than 11 years of career as soloist and seven studio albums has managed to position the Cruckchata within the music industry and in the heart of the people.

Bachata Super Star Toby Love will be performing all his hits on Friday, October 28th!

TOBY LOVE – BACHATA EDITION AT CULTURA EVENT CENTER

5602 S Washington. St, Tacoma 98409

Date: October 28

Time: 9:00 pm

Cost: GA: $40 (presale)

VIP:$60 – includes: Front of Stage Access, Autographed copy of Toby Love’s Newest Album and Meet and Greet!

Facebook: tobyloveofficial

For more information and VIP Table reservations please call: 253.444.2314