July 23, 2010
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20 minutes west of Portland in a quaint little park called Greenway, which is nestled in the back of a Beaverton neighborhood, typical of any American suburb, one could find the Bobby Torres Ensemble practicing medicine!
As the evening sun began to touch the horizon, the Ensemble prescribed a dish full of heart-felt rhythms to (more…)
July 21, 2010
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Yes you read that correctly. Salsa dancing on top of a volcano… is exactly what occurred when a few thousand park visitors and salsa aficionados congregated on top of Mt. Tabor yesterday evening . Around 6:30pm, Melao de Cuba, took the stage and kicked off a 2hour streak of afro-rhythms meshed with solid salsa inspired beats which inspired the audience to start dancing.
With a set of Congas, a trumpeter, violinist, and a hell-of-a-set of lungs to start, the organic yet potent eleven (more…)
July 16, 2010
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Sometimes waiting to the last minute does pay off…
It’s 7:30pm and I just finished getting ready to go to the Afro Cuban Allstars Concert in downtown Portland. I go through my checklist “wallet? Got it. Keys? Got em. Tickets? Oh sh#$!
So I get online to the Roseland Theater website- and I see that at 7:31, a half an hour before the concert was supposed to begin) they disabled the online ticket buying option- WTF! “Calm down,” I think to myself. Worst case scenario I’ll have to pay a couple of extra bucks at the door- $25-30 as opposed to $22 online- No big deal-right?
As I’m arriving outside the entrance of the Roseland Theater I hear, “Have you bought your tickets?” being asked to the couple ahead of me. The couple, though, walks straight through without even acknowledging the question. I brace myself with the thought that I might have to shell out an extra $20 more bucks, than I was planning, as I ponder whether or not I think $45 total would be worth seeing the Afro-Cuban Allstars.
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“What about you?” I’m asked by the scalpers. “No I respond” (more…)
June 30, 2010
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Salsa Star Date
We’re into the middle of week 3, of having gone live, and publishing our first post about the Portland Salsa Congress. Lately, we”ve been scouring the internet trying to amass even more sites and information on anything having to do with Salsa in the Portland area- ultimately hoping that something would flip the switch (more…)
Portland Salsa Bands, Portland Salsa Blogs, Portland Salsa Instructors, Portland Salsa Performance, Portland Salsa Venues
June 26, 2010
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Los Rumberos del Caribe will be playing Salsa Music at First Thursday at the Trebol Restaurant.
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The good thing about this is that for the PdxSalsero/a you can start out warming up there for a couple of hours and then make your way to Santa Fe’s or the new Fernandos to get the rest of your fix on!
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Los Rumberos @ Trebol Restaurant
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