Vancouver International Salsa Festival

Friday to Sunday

Westin Bayshore Hotel, Coal Harbour

Tickets: Go to www.salsafestival.ca

Six months after the last JSmooth Bachata Lesson, JSmooth and Maria are back for their special lesson in Bachata dancing.

 

Tom and Charley talk to Deana McCormack with Ballet Arkansas about a fundraising event called "Come Dancin'."

Palo Pinto County

Tickets are now available for the Salsa Baron’s Ball benefitting Palo Pinto Challenge, set for 6:30-9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Sheriff’s Posse Building.
Tickets are $100 per couple and prices include a fajita dinner and a chance to win $1,500 grand prize. Tickets can be purchased at the Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce.

TLANTA, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Lanza Group, LLC, proudly announces Bud Light as the official beer sponsor of Salsa Fest for 2010. An outdoor Salsa festival celebrating Latino culture, music and food, Salsa Fest takes place on Sunday, March 21, 2010 from 12 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. at Turner Field.

NEW to J Smooth Salsa are Casino de Rueda dance classes! Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, special guest instructor (for a limited time) Parrish Danforth will be at the Miraido Dance Studio to teach Casino de Rueda.

Sidewalks were still icy and another snow storm was brewing, but that didn’t stop about 150 salseros from coming out Monday to Brasil’s Nightclub in support of a fund-raiser for Haiti earthquake victims. The “Hope for Haiti” event raised more than $5,300, more than 130 pairs of shoes and more than 100 pairs of  lightly-worn jeans were donated.

At 36, Maria Finn was starting that new, hopeful stage in life that comes with marriage and the promise of family. Less than two years later, her husband cheated on her.

Strange how life, in an instant, can drop out from under you. Finn’s marriage ended, but she has a powerful comeback story and her vehicle of transformation was a surprise: tango. She has written a memoir of the experience, “Hold Me Tight & Tango Me Home.”

THURSDAY 4

SALSA: Frankie Vázquez and the Bronx Horns at Latin Tinge Thursdays, Brooklyn Crossroads Supper Club, 402 Third Ave. at Sixth St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn, 6 p.m.; $10; women free until 8 p.m.

MIX: Brooklyn band Chicha Libre plays to Charlie Chaplin’s “Pay Day” and “The Idle Class” and guitarist Gyan Riley to shorts from Harry Smith’s “Early Abstractions,” 8 p.m. at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W. 67th St., $40-$45. Part of the New York Guitar Festival.

SATURDAY 6

SALSA: Dominican singers José Alberto (El Canario) and Raúl Rosendo and Puerto Ricans Nino Segarra and Paquito Guzmán at “Back to the the ’80s” concert, Lehman Center, 8 p.m., $35-$50.

FUND-RAISER: New York Latin bands Zon del Barrio (salsa), Alma Moyo (bomba), Bryan Vargas & Ya Está (Afro-Latin soul) and Vaya (funk), along with the collective Welfare Poets and the dance groups Kalunga Neg Mawon and Paleros Dominicanos de Nueva York! come together for Caribe Negro for Haiti! — a fund-raising event — at Bruckner Bar & Grill, 1 Bruckner Blvd., Bronx, 7 p.m.-3 a.m. (Dance classes from 7 p.m.-9 p.m.). $15-$20.

KIDS: Hot Peas ’N Butter, a children’s musical group that mixes traditional Latin music, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, jazz, folk and rock, at Queens Theater in the Park, 1 p.m. Also Feb. 7, 2 p.m., $12.

KIDS: Dan Zanes and Friends perform songs in both English and Spanish with tap dancer Derick K. Grant, buzuq player Tareq Abboushi, the Brooklyn Symphony Youth Orchestra and the BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble, at BAM Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., $15-$25.

KIDS: “La Cucarachita Martina/Martina, the Little Roach,” a bilingual Latin rock ’n’ roll musical based on the children’s tale, at Teatro Sea @ Los Kabayitos Puppet & Children’s Theatre, 107 Suffolk St., 3 p.m., $12.50-$15. Also Feb. 13.

SUNDAY 7

EXHIBIT: Opening reception for Dominican visual artist Demostina’s show “Tuning In” at El Rio Gallery, 10 Fort Washington Ave., at 160 St., 4 to 7 p.m., featuring performance by flamenco singer and dancer Sol La Argentinita and guitar player Cristian Puig. Free.

TUESDAY 9

TV: “P-Star Rising,” a documentary about Priscilla (P-Star) Diaz, a New York kid rapper who struggles to make a name for herself hoping that in the process she will lift her family out of poverty, airs on PBS, 10 p.m.

TANGO: Pianist Emilio Solla & the Tango Jazz Insiders at Jazz Standard, 116 E. 27th St., 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. shows, $20.

A salsa dance will be held Saturday Feb. 6 at Cornell's Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room. Intro salsa lesson by Felipe Rivera will be from 8-9 p.m. with dancing from 9 p.m. to midnight. There will also be a performance by Sabor Latino. A donation of $5 students and $10 non-students will go to UNICEF/Haiti. Admission includes food and non-alcoholic beverages. Free private dance lessons by Dance Hosts will be available all night.

For more information go to www.salsalibre.org

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