FESTIVAL COLOMBIANO, OC 2011 — Uno de los mejores eventos Latinos del año es EL FESTIVAL COLOMBIANO DE ORANGE COUNTY, el cual es atendido por muchísima gente Colombiana y de todos países, a quienes les gusta el buen ambiente, la buena música, el buen paladar, y el buen baile. 

 

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Este año, el festival colombiana tomará lugar el 10 de Julio en el Phoenix Club de Anaheim (dirección: 1340 S. Sanderson Ave., Anaheim, CA 92806) desde las 9 de la mañana hasta las 9 de la noche. Los niños menores de 10 años con menos de 48 pulgadas de estatura entran GRATIS! 

 

Se presentarán en el escenario, la gran Orquesta Guayacán, Los Cantores de Chipuco, Silvestre y Juancho, y muchos más!

 

Este evento esta patrocinado por CARACOL TV INTERNACIONAL, FESTIVAL COLOMBIANO OC, DIRECTV AUTHORIZED DEALER 888-736-2272. 

 

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LOS ANGELES FRIDAY SALSA — How many cities can say that they have more than five options in Salsa venues to go to on a Friday night? Can San Diego or San Francisco say that? How about New York? I am sure they can, and maybe they even have more. 

 

Well, what if we spoke about fourteen Salsa nightclubs happening every Friday night in the city of Los Angeles? (and that excludes The Mayan and other venues that we don't really consider "Salsa clubs") Yes, that's how many venues we have every Friday night in Los Angeles! 

 

A lot of people living in Los Angeles don't give any importance to this, as they are simply used to having the options and that's that. But when you love salsa dancing and you are stuck in a city that only has one, or two, or three venues on any given night…

LA FONDA ON WILSHIRE — La Fonda Restaurant & Nightclub was established in 1968 and made national headlines for combining a Mexican dining experience with Live Mariachi music. The venue has always attracted local tourism and it has also established a very loyal following amongst patrons enamored with La Fonda experience. 

 

Today, La Fonda's owner and management team have aimed to maintained the traditional ambiance that popularized the venue for decades, while bringing certain parts of the locale to the design standards of the twenty-first century. 

 

La Fonda's new lounge has the appearance of a Vegas nightclub but still retains the warmth and comfort of old Mexico. It is truly a delight to step in there, enjoy a delicious drink, perhaps some Mexican appetizers, and blend in with the vibe of the place. 

 

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SOCIAL SALSA — For those of us seeking to promote salsa dancing and music simply because we love it tremendously, being in sync with what's happening in our social society is of outmost importance. But knowing how to use the social tools at our disposal is even more important than just using them.

 

SalsaHook.com's fan page with Facebook only has a little over 1,500 fans; the account is linked to twitter for live newsfeeds, but when it comes to really tapping into the social web, we fall short. Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, etc., are all social tools that are often not used at all in our salsa community. 

A report today on CNN.com explained how even the ever-popular Facebook is now losing users by the millions. To assume that having a fan page with 20,000 or 100,000 followers (in our case less than 1,600 followers) will give you notoriety…

RUSHIN' TO DANCE — Some of the most fun dances in my salsa life have happened with people with simply couldn't shut up and just dance! They kept on talking through salsa songs, during every spin or double spin or triple spin, during dips, cross-body leads, and even shines! 

 

Now, when I refer to "they" I actually probably only mean one person...my old salsa friend Ally Perlina, who moved to San Diego a few years ago. She was the most fun to dance with only because I spent 80-90% of any song we ever danced to, asking her to just shut up and dance! She loved it too and knew it was annoying as heck, so she kept on doing it...or maybe she just couldn't help it. I dunno...

 

Well, have you ever found people like that? My friend Ally would talk about anything, from the music, to…

SALSA DANCING BEWARE — It is common knowledge that there are some professional salsa dancers in every scene who truly wish to make have a grand lifestyle off what they do with their dancing and teaching in the salsa scene. These pro dancers see each person in their classes as cash flow that they better squeeze out like a lemon before they are gone to learn from someone else or to not take any lessons anymore. 

 

These pro dancers will be quick to promote their "private dance lessons," their "shoe lines," or their "salsa wear fashion dresses," etc, etc., to dancers who have attended only one of their lessons. You will hear a line that sounds a bit like this about their private lessons: "if you truly want to learn to dance, you have to pay me to teach you privately, where all my attention can be given to…

ANA ROSA DESIGN — Today, when you watch a Salsa show or competition in Los Angeles, part of what makes it a very pleasant experience is the fact that the dancers seem to be dressed so well with flashy and sexy costumes. This wasn't always the case in LA, where dancers used to simply wear matching clothes to function as costumes for dance performances or competitions.

 

Ana Rosa Design has played a principal role in what has changed how Salsa dancers dress on-stage. She began providing uniquely designed costumes to dancers in the Salsa Community around the year of 2008. Some of the first salsa teams and dancers to wear her designs were those related to the "Tropical Rhythm" dance company in Los Angeles. And as soon as other dancers and dance troupes realized how well-dressed TR dancers were, they also began going to Ana Rosa to get their…

WOKCANO SALSA TUESDAYS — When I met Szilvi Kovacs at an Alma Del Barrio event at Loyola Marymount, I could tell that she had a drive unique to only a few salsa lovers. Most people are just happy dancing; others have to contribute and be part of something within the niche that they've chosen to spend their time in. Szilvi was definitely going to do something to promote salsa dancing, salsa music, and her love for it all. 

 

Sure enough, Szilvi began promoting salsa nights at a club in Venice, CA, which was free to get in and was the talk of the town as a new option for Tuesday nights on the west side. Soon after, Szilvi and her salsa nights were featured on a local television news channel where they spoke of the health benefits of salsa dancing and the club itself. 

 

Today, Szilvi, who promotes…

YOUTUBE.COM — Currently there are hundreds of thousands of Latin dance videos on YouTube (if not millions, who knows), and there is one particular video that seems to continue getting millions of views. Currently at a little above 27.4 million hits, the video featuring two of the best Bachata dancers in the world, Jorge Burgos (a.k.a. "ATACA Jorgie") and Tanja Kensinger (a.k.a. "La Alemana"), seems to overtake all other Latin dance videos ever!

 

When you watch the video, you realize why it has gotten so many hits. Tanja is simply an exquisite female with an amazing body, great hair, and super-sexy moves. Her dancing is so uniquely refreshing that people continue coming back for more, even when having watched the video dozens of times before. It just seems so right to cotinue enjoying such fresh dancing and great looks. 

 

In the video, Jorgie and Tanja are dancing to…

SALSA DANCING @ SANTA MONICA, CA — Every Sunday at 4 PM, Philip shows up at the north end of 3rd Street Promenade, between Arizona Ave and Wilshire Blvd, with a portable sound system and speakers and starts blasting the best Salsa tunes right there on the street. It picks up around 6 PM and goes on until about 9 PM, weather permitting. 

 

Philip, who describes himself as an outgoing and fun guy who likes fast spins, long dips, sexy styling, and smiling lips, has been hosting this great Salsa attraction in Santa Monica, CA, for over 5 years now! He does it for none other than LOVE for Salsa dancing. There is a permit in place with the city of Santa Monica to be able to play music and dance at the 3rd Street Promenade, so it is all well-managed. 

 

The event is SO MUCH FUN and attracts…

SALSAHOOK.COM SEO — SalsaHook.com was created with the idea that the Salsa scene needed a web solution that would provide dancers with the information that they wanted the most: where to go dancing on any given night. Added to that were the ideas of having a small social network and a news site where users could, if they wanted to, contribute content to the site. And even though a lot of criticism has been received for inconceivable reasons, the site has flourished in its own right simply because its purpose and structure work. 

 

SalsaHook.com allows any promoter of salsa dancing lover to SHARE information that they know about events that are happening in their area. Often times, this information can go unnoticed by salsa dancers eager to go dance at such events, only if they knew they were happening. SalsaHook.com provides that solution and we can oly wish more…

SALSAHOOK.COM — Alma Latina is a dance academy that stems from Tijuana, Mexico and is directed by professional world renowned salsa dancers, Sergio Jasso and Gaby Equiz. 

 

In the recent years, Alma Latina has taken the world of salsa by storm with their highly-acclaimed on-stage dance performances, their winnings of numerous dance competitions, and simply the pure talent that each and every one of their dancers seems to possess. All of which is directly representative of the training they all receive and speaks very well of the methodology that Gaby and Sergio implement. 

 

With their first satellite branch school inside the U.S. being in San Diego, CA, which is reasonably close to Tijuana, Mexico, Alma Latina seeked to move to Los Angeles, a world mecca of salsa dancing, and not just teach there, but also hold auditions for their four teams: amateur, intermediate, semi-pro, and professional. 

 

Eventually,…

LOS ANGELES SALSA CLUBS — Stevens Steak House is known around the world as a salsa dancing venue that you ought not to miss if you ever visit the mecca of Salsa dancing: Los Angeles, CA. The venue attracts some of the best salsa dancers in the world every single week. 

 

So large is the influence that Stevens Steak House imposes in the city of Los Angeles and all its relatively neighboring salsa dancing cities, such as San Diego, Las Vegas, San Francisco, etc., that when events are held in those cities, they are often called: "Stevens-On-Wheels," as most of the best dancers always attending are dancers who are regulars at Stevens Steak House.

 

This is not a treat that is easily comprehended by anyone who has never been at Stevens on a Tuesday or Sunday night, when some of the best dancers in Los Angeles, and subsequently,…

DIA DE SAN JUAN FESTIVAL, FIESTA ALEGRE — Fiesta Alegre organizes the 16th Annual Día de San Juan Festival at Frank G. Bonelli Park in San Dimas, CA. The event will take place on June 12th, 2011 and tickets purchased before June 11 are just $25.

 

This year, Fiestaalegre Promotions is seeking to provide the best entertainment for your listening and dancing pleasure, with a lineup that includes:

- Frankie Vazquez- Ray De La Paz- Michael Stuart- Johnny Polanco- L.A. Plena- MC Javier Suazo- DJ Willieand plenty more...

 

 

You can purchase Presale tickets at the following locations:    - Liborio Market (213) 386-1458- El Zorro (310) 674-4219- Mofongo (818) 754-1051- El Nuevo Mundo Market (323) 773-6500- Habana Cafe, Downey (562) 776-7251- El Colmao (213) 386-6131- La Puma Rosa (323) 973-8358     The prices for the event will be as follows:   - Advance Ticket Price -…

EL FLORIDITA, HOLLYWOOD — El Floridita Cuban Restaurant offers the most authentic Cuban experience in all of Los Angeles. In business since 1987, El Floridita has become a Latin entertainment landmark in Hollywood, CA. 

 

The venue is known for being an intimate locale with a very unique old-world style setup that is complemented by the warmth and hospitality that patrons receive as soon as they walk in.

 

El Floridita offers a wide range of Cuban delicacies to choose from and which are intended to please the taste of every diner. From Moros and Cristianos, Mojo de Ajo, Platanos, Ropa Vieja, and Arroz con Pollo, to Yuca con Mojo, Camarones al Ajillo, Pierna de Puerco, and Vegetarian dishes, El Floridita ensures the complete satisfaction of all its patrons. 

 

And what could be better after a delicious Cuban feast than some hot Latin dancing to the best Latin orchestras…