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The YA Salsa Social is Detroit's biggest salsa dance party.
Hosted once per month by YA Salsa,
attendees have the chance to learn salsa from some of the best instructors in Metro Detroit.
WHAT:
$10 at the door gets you:
Beginner & Intermediate and On2 Salsa Lesson starting at 5:30 p.m.!
Endless Beverages & Snacks!
A huge wooden dance floor!
The hottest salsa tracks spun by our volunteer guest DJ's
( Issac, Cisco, MarcB)
Two floors of dancing -
Salsa and Cha Cha Cha upstairs,
Latin Mix downstairs !
Cash Bar!
WHEN:
Sunday, March 29, 2015 , from 5:30 - 10 p.m. ---
WHERE: American Legion Post 346
31775 Grand River Ave, Farmington, MI ---
WHO:
All Ages welcome
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MidwestMusicMafia At Live or GMail Dot Com
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
- YA Salsa - Sunday Social - + Guzman & Nunez - March 29, 2015 - ? Spring ? -
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
- - - - - - Just a Reminder - for the Swingaholics - - - - - - - - - Great Place - - - - - ( if you haven't been there ) - - - - - - - Great Bands - - - -
All Night Entertainment presents the
Battle of the Bands
at the BIG3 Swing Dance
Saturday, March 21, 2015
at the
Masonic Temple Crystal Ballroom in Detroit.
Battle of the Bands
at the BIG3 Swing Dance
Saturday, March 21, 2015
at the
Masonic Temple Crystal Ballroom in Detroit.
31 musicians will battle head-to-head!
Two-time defending champs, 15-piece
Swingmania vs.
Six-time winners, 16-piece
Paul King &
The Rhythm Society Orchestra
Swingmania vs.
Six-time winners, 16-piece
Paul King &
The Rhythm Society Orchestra
Swingmania from Toledo plays a wide variety of the classic swing and big band music of
Miller, Ellington and Basie
plus favorites such as Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Cole, Prima and Presley.
They have a solid hold on the swing scene in Northwest Ohio.
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PK&RSO from Detroit specializes in swing from the mid-1930s through late 1940s.
Its sound is influenced by Count Basie and Harry James and has covered the top swing venues throughout the Midwest.
The band has been nominated for Detroit Music Awards including
Best Big Band/Swing artists, Outstanding Jazz Vocalist and Outstanding Jazz Instrumentalists.
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Dancers of all skill levels are welcome. Many come just to enjoy the sights and sounds.
Dress is semi-formal or vintage attire.
General admission begins at 6:30 p.m. with a dance lesson from 7 to 8 p.m.
The bands will battle from 8:15 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
There is a cash bar available throughout the evening.
Recommended dress is semi-formal or vintage attire.
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Tickets are $25 per person in advance or at the door.
Add $5 for the optional lesson.
Parking (usually $10/vehicle) is available in:
- The Masonic Temple's north parking lot
- On the west side of 2nd Avenue
- On the southwest corner of Temple and Cass
- On the southeast corner of Temple and Cass
The BIG3s pull dancers and non-dancers from all ages together for incredible evenings of music and dance.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
- Salsa Time Band - 31775 Grand River Ave - Farmington Hills - MI - Sunday - - March 22, 2015 - - - 6 PM -
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At the American Legion Post -
Where they do the YA Salsa Sunday Socials -
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- Salsa Time Band -
- 31775 Grand River Ave -
- Farmington Hills - MI -
- Sunday - March 22, 2015 - 6 PM -
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Where they do the YA Salsa Sunday Socials -
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Friday, March 6, 2015
- A little more Salsa and related dances background - for you to cogitate - and reply - if you wish -
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Short version Of Some Salsa Stuff
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(( taken mainly from ))
History of
Salsa Dance and Music
Written by: Jaime
Andrés Pretell
Published
by: Centralhome.com Company Inc. on June
21, 1998.
Last updated
on Sept 26, 2014.
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Here –
Midwest Music Mafia – March 06, 2015
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What is
Salsa? A sauce, a recipe, a dance?
Who invented
salsa? The Cubans, Puerto Ricans?
Salsa is a
distillation of many Latin and Afro-Caribbean dances.
Each played
a large part in its evolution.
Salsa is
similar to Mambo - both have a pattern of six steps danced over eight counts of
music.
The dances
share many of the same moves.
In Salsa,
turns have become an important feature,
so the
overall look and feel are quite different from those of Mambo.
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A look at
the origin of Salsa
We must give
credit to Cuba for the origin and ancestry of creation.
Contra-Danze (Country
Dance) of England/France, later called Danzón, - brought by the French who
fled from Haiti, begins to mix itself with Rhumbas of African origin (Guaguanco,
Colombia, Yambú).
Add Són of
the Cuban people, which was a mixture of the Spanish troubadour (sonero) and
the African drumbeats and flavora and a partner dance flowered to the
beat of the clave.
This also
occurred in other countries like the
Dominican
Republic,
Colombia,
Puerto Rico,
Bands of
these countries took their music to Mexico City in the era of the famous films
of that country (Perez Prado, ...).
A similar
movement to New York occurred.
In these two
cities, more promotion and syncretism occurred and more commercial music was
generated because there was more investment.
New York
created the term "Salsa", but it did not create the dance.
The term
became popular as nickname to refer to a variety
of different music,
from several
countries of Hispanic influence:
Bomba,
Cha cha ,
Charanga,
Cumbia,
Cubop,
Danzón,
Festejo,
Guajira,
Guaracha,
Guguanco,
Mambo,
Merengue,
Plena,
Rhumba,
Són,
Són Montuno,
... Many maintained
their individuality - many were mixed creating "Salsa".
If you are
listening to today's Salsa, you are going to find the base of Són, and you
are going to hear Cumbia, and you are going to hear Guaracha. You will
also hear some old Merengue, built-in the rhythm of different songs. You will
hear many of the old styles somewhere within the modern beats.
Salsa varies
from site to site.
In New
York, new instrumentalization and extra percussion were added to
some Colombian songs so that New Yorkers - that dance mambo "on the
two" - can feel comfortable dancing to the rhythm and beat of the
song .
This is
called "finishing", to enter the local market.
This
"finish" does not occur because the Colombian does not play Salsa,
but it does not play to the rhythm of the Puerto Rican/Post-Cuban Salsa.
Post-Cuban,
because the music of Cuba has evolved towards another new and equally flavorful
sound.
Then, as a
tree, Salsa has many roots and many branches, but one trunk that unites it all.
The
important thing is that Salsa is played throughout the Hispanic world and has
received influences of many places within it.
It is a
sample of flexibility and evolution.
Each dancer,
club, local … may be accustomed to dance
his/her own style.
None is
better, only different.
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