Coming up later This Week-
Live Salsa is happening down in Los Gatos every Thursday night at Charley’s LG, 15 N. Santa Cruz Avenue. Featuring this week one of the Bay Area favorites Julio Bravo y Salsabor. Yours truly, Luis Medina will be your DJ (KPFA/WorldSalsaRadio.com), WSR’s DJ El De La Clave will be in the house. Dance lessons with Migi and Angel start at 8 pm.
read moreLive Music Happenings and more 5/8/2022
There is a new Salsa scene happening on Thursdays starting this Thursday, May 12th at Charley’s LG, 15 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos presented by your friends at International Salsa Magazine. Opening night at this state of the art club will feature the swinging sounds of the multi-talented vocalist/conguero Edgardo Cambon and Candela.
read moreSF International Film Festival showcases Films that you should look out for
The 65th San Francisco International Film Festival was a showcase for narrative, documentary, shorts, tributes and live music-film experiences. The following are some of the films from their Cine Latino showcase and other intriguing films that you should look out for during the next few months:
read moreSF Film Festival shines with Live Tributes & Music-Film showings at the Castro
The 65th SF Film Festival produced by SF Film as been a whirlwind of cinematic experiences which has included live music and film showcases, tributes and films from around the world to celebrate the festival’s complete public reopening in 2 years. The historic Castro Theatre in San Francisco has been the location of two of the festival’s big events this year!
read moreTwo SF Bay Area Mainstays Tito Garcia & Conceição Demasceno RIP
Two important and remarkable San Francisco Bay Area cultural mainstays, Tito Garcia, the renowned bandleader and timbalero of Tito Garcia y Orquesta Internacional and Concieção Damasceno, the dynamic force of nature: brilliant dancer and leader of famed Carnaval dance troupe Ginga Brasil and co-founder of Casa De Cultura Cultural Center both died this past weekend.
read moreJose Luis Cortez “El Tosco” RIP
Jose Luis Cortes “El Tosco” , the legendary flautist, bandleader, composer, arranger of NG La Banda, the band that broke Timba, the music genre that has kept seducing Cuba and the world since the 1990’s has died at the age of 70. Cortes died due to a cerebral hemmorage on Tuesday, April 19th.
read morePrayers for Tito Garcia of Orquesta Internacional, Ritmo 74, Rene Del Mar fame
I’m sending prayers and good wishes to my old friend, timbalero Ernesto “Tito” Garcia who led his big mambo band “Tito Garcia Y Orquesta Internacional” for many years in the SF Bay. He is hospitalized fighting for his life after a bout with Cancer. Tito relapsed due to complications during his recovery.
read moreMusic News 4/11/2022
Don’t forget coming up on Friday, May 6th at 8 pm with be the tremendous Cuban music double bill of “El Tren De Cuba”…Los Van Van and Alexander Abreu y Havana d’Primera at the UC Theatre, 2036 University Avenue in Berkeley.
read moreMusic News 4/5/2022
This coming weekend…”El Principe De La Salsa”…Luis Enrique will headline the dance at the Hyatt Regency Burlingame on Saturday, April 9th. Sharing the bill with Luis Enrique will be the hot salsa of Josimar Y Su Yambu from Peru.
read moreNew Live Music News 3/30/2002
I just got the official word that Ahkeel Mestayer and Friends WILL NOT be appearing at Blondies Bar in San Francisco this coming Thursday, March 31st as previously reported on this blog.
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