News & Updates — Salsa

Peace & Rhythm's DJ Bongohead continues his Ontario tour on Sat, Feb 18 at Danse Avec Moi Studio in Milton, ON.  Lesson: 8:30 to 9:30 pm with Lucky Sipin! Social Dancing: 9:30 - 1:00 am with DJ Bongohead from Massachusetts, DJ Gury Gury and DJ Tarek playing salsa on vinyl! Fully Licensed Bar! Plus Prizes: We will be giving away Full Passes to the Toronto Salsa Festival in April to the person with the most beads at the end of the night! Cover: $10.00 Playing the best in salsa dura, bachata, kizomba, cha cha Danse Avec Moi Studio 781 Main...

To celebrate their one-year anniversary Toronto's La Rumba Buena are flying up a very special guest from the US, Peace & Rhythm's own DJ Bongohead. DJ Bongohead has been playing Latin music for more than two decades in venues large and small all across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Spain. He has played at private parties for Fania Records, the Lincoln Center’s David Rubinstein Atrium, and Fez in NYC. He has guest DJed with DJ Turmix's Boogaloo Party at Nublu in Manhattan and has opened for old-school salsa greats like Tipica ’73, Orquesta Típica Novel, The Mambo Legends Orchestra, and...

Our punk-salsa heroes from Puerto Rico, Orquesta El Macabeo, were recently featured at Bandcamp Daily with a nice write-up and some catalog selections (article here). The band releases many of their records in co-op fashion, with several labels from around the world helping pick up the tab. Peace & Rhythm have done so for three of the group's records, including the now out-of-print Macacoa 7" and the vinyl edition of their 2011 release El Entierro (we still have VERY limited copies remaining, grab them here) and the brand new release, La Maldición del Timbal, the band's finest effort to date....

Check out Jose Conde's new video! It's been a long time coming and the dream has been realized! Check it out. Ola Fresca bandleader and the project's visionary, Jose Conde: "In 1998, almost 20 years before the historic re-opening of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, I wrote a song called “Puente a Mi Gente” (Bridge to My People). Now, through the mediums of video and audio recording in a new arrangement of this song and a 6 minute video clip, the cultural bridge visualized in the song has been built! "Puente a Mi Gente" features Cuban musicians...

FREE With Cuban soul and a swinging, fearless tropical sound, this trombone-driven power salsa octet, Ola Fresca, preside over our signature Latin dance party, ¡Vaya 63!, at Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium. At the helm of the group is Cuban-American singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer Jose Conde, who conjures “a state of harmonic coexistence across conventions” (Time Out New York), spiking Cuban son with New Orleans funk, Nigerian Afrobeat, James Brown rhythms, Haitian compas, New York City boogaloo, and jam-band flights. DJ Bongohead kicks of the night at 7:00 pm and plays between and after the band’s two sets. Presented...