30 km from Copenhagen, we have some of the best summer salsa open air dance events, in 2018: four Fridays in August with live music. Roskilde has a vibrant Cuban Salsa community spearheaded by the Salsa Latina Dance School. This dance school could be a good model for other small towns, a community of the local dancers, run by volunteers.
Read moreThe move Siete con Coca-Cola, Siete is also often called Panqué, is on the surface a lovely intermediate move, “easy” and seemingly very popular. At least we can find many videos demonstrating the move on YouTube. But it is a fake social move because the Lead can not lead it. It works in Rueda de Casino because the Follow is
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“Islands Brygge” (Island’s Quay) in the center of Copenhagen harbor is a very popular place for open air free dance events like Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba and Tango, almost every day in the summer time, and you have many indoor dance events the rest of the year. This local Cultural Center dance venue with a lot of outdoor and indoor facilities,
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“Dansepladsen” (litteraly “the place to dance”) is located in a corner of the biggest park of Copenhagen, “Fælledparken”. If the sun is shining, “Dansepladsen”, simply called “Fælledparken” among the local dancers, is the most popular dance venue in Copenhagen. It is free and it is World Class. 1. Summer Dance in Fælledparken During the summer, from end of June to
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We all seem to agree that the new album, “Cantor del Pueblo”, released 2018, by Alexander Abreu y Havana D’ Primera, lives up to expectations. The band has just had a very successful concert in Copenhagen, June 2018, the second concert in a year. They performed several of the new songs. The audience already knew them and applauded like crazy.
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The “Arrasando” (Devastating) album from 2009 is one of the very best albums by Los Van Van and one of the very best timba albums ever. Here is the story. In 2016 “Arrasando” disappeaerd from Spotify and other music services due to some copyright issue. For several years now, no one has heard this fantastic album unless they have the
Read moreBarbaro Fines y su Mayimbe performs Intro Mayimbe. This is a live studio recording at the Congahead.com studio. It is not as live as a concert, and it is a little strange to watch a live performance in a small studio without an audience. But great it is anyway. Some of the benefits of watching the many Congahead.com videos are,
Read more“Dale Lo Que Lleva” (Give it what it takes) with Maykel Blanco Y Su Salsa Mayor, featuring Maykel Fonts, is easily one of my all time favorites. The official video is great and this live version is even better. I love to do dance workouts to this song. If you don’t know the guest singer Maykel Fonts, notice his salsa
Read moreThis live version of “Despues De Todo” (After all), by Los Van Van, is the favorite of many Cuban music lovers. Legendary Yenisel Valdés (Yeni, Jenny) is no longer a member of Los Van Van but as can be heared on the just released “Legado” album, another female voice, Vanessa Formell, has taken over and sounds very similar. Just like
Read moreI love to wake up to it in the morning preparing my oat meal, eating breakfast, doing the dishes and making the bed, while dancing to it all the time, practicing footwork, body isolation, and crazy improvisations. JUAN FORMELL y LOS VAN VAN Feat. PEDRITO CALVO – “Anda Ven Y Muevete”. The video start with Juan Formell singing and all
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