News & Updates — Visual Clave

This Saturday! Part of DJ Bongohead's Ontario swing. Shows at Yaucca's Lounge in Toronto on Friday, this event at Lula Lounge on Saturday afternoon, Danse Avec Moi Studio in Milton on Sat and a private party on Sunday. An action-packed salsa weekend in the Northern land!

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...

As Visual Clave winds down its nine-week run at Bronx Music Heritage Center this weekend, we have this souvenir short film put together by Mathew Ramirez Warren and Rodrigo Balseca Carmona recapping the event, featuring Mr Salsa Izzy Sanabria and our own Pablo Yglesias. With footage from the Brooklyn, Bronx and UMass-Amherst shows, there are so many friendly faces popping up in this, along with all that great album cover art! Check out the video.

DJ Bongohead’s Visual Clave exhibit closes it’s two-month stay at Bronx Music Heritage Center this weekend. Coinciding with the Bronx Salsa Fest 2015, there will be live music by Bronx Descarga All Stars. Schedule of events for Friday evening are as follows: 6pm  The Latin Music Tertulia Series by Joe Conzo is a free series presented by the BMHC that explores the history of Latin music (what we call mambo and salsa) in New York City, as well as the musicians who created it. 7pm  Join us for the closing reception for Visual Clave! Visual Clave documents the little known evolution...