San Francisco Salsa Congress!

Every year, the San Francisco Bay Area Salsa Congress takes place in November, bringing thousands of dancers to San Francisco for Salsa Dance Classes, Salsa Workshops, and some of the best social salsa dancing in the world.

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A word from this Year's Salsa Congresss:

"We are eager to welcome all of you to the 5th Annual San Francisco Salsa Congress. It starts with a Pre-Congress party featuring SF's hottest band, AVANCE. The Congress presents over 50 dance workshops, top level evening dance shows with performers from all over the world, an afternoon showcase presenting new talent in the Salsa World, and the highly anticipated live bands from New York and Colombia.

Dance until 4 AM in the morning! All events held at the Oakland Marriott City Convention Center. Open to the public, all ages welcome. Also...Don't miss the highly prestigious SF BAY AREA INTERNATIONAL DANCE COMPETITION Sunday night! Check out the line-up for this year. "

Learn more about the San Francisco Bay Area Salsa Congress, and visit the SF Salsa Congress Website!

This year's Lineup:

Meet our Bands for this year's Congress

Meet our DJ's

Avance (San Francisco)

This award winning 13 piece salsa ensemble people have come to know as AVANCE. AVANCE originates and consists of the hottest and newest talents the San Francisco Bay Area has come to know. Four electrifying bilingual singers, a sizzling horn section and one of the best rhythm sections on the West Coast.

The New Swing Sextet (New York)

A product of New York City and the excitement and turbulence of the sixties, the New Swing Sextet made its professional debut performing in the Singer Bowl at the last New York World's Fair in 1965. The band has been a popular and innovative exponent of Latin jazz, salsa and pop music for nearly four decades.

Sonora Carruseles (Colombia)

With only six albums to its credit and less than nine years of existence, Colombia 's Sonora Carruseles has already perfected a trademark sound that is cherished by salsa lovers all over the world.  There's some seriously powerful stuff to be found in this album:  spidery piano lines, tight poly rhythms, explosive brass riffs, staccato cowbell patterns and impossibly nasal choruses that are just hard to resist.  Carruseles pays a moving tribute to the spirit of old, hardcore salsa, while at the same renewing this all but-forgotten style with the benefits of digital technology.

THURSDAY: PRECONGRESS PARTY AT COCOMO, November 16, 2006

Enjoy the night with Avance, performances, and the Bay Area's best dj's. Cocomo, 650 Indiana St., San Francisco, CA 94107

 

FRIDAY: OPENING NIGHT, November 17, 2006

Workshops All Day,
Dance Performances,
Night Dancing to 4am. Our band for the night will be New Swing Sextet.

 

SATURDAY: GALA NIGHT, November 18, 2006

Workshops All Day,
Dance Performances. This is our Gala Night so dress to impress. Night Dancing to 4am. Our band for the night will be Sonora Carruseles .

SUNDAY: DANCER'S DELIGHT, November 19, 2006

Workshops All Day,
Dance Performances, Best DJ's of the world all night.
Night Dancing to 4am. International Dance Competition.