Dany is officially a Salsa instructor at Rutgers University!

After a few of years of teaching Salsa at the RU Salsa Club, Dany has been hired by Rutgers University to teach Salsa and Merengue non-credit dance classes starting Fall 2007.

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A few weeks ago, the Scarlet Mambo Team and friends attended a music festival to support a performance by Swing Sabroso in Princeton. We all were lucky to be featured in a series of three stories printed on The Princeton Summer Journal.

It seems that everyone got a mention, a quote, or a picture. Let’s see… Carenina, Lyne, Felisa, Mary, Tee, Camila, Ray (Swing Sabroso), Mike (Swing Sabroso), and yours truly.

Below are both, the text and scan, versions of the articles. So pick one to read. I will stop now because I don’t want to spoil the three articles.

Community enjoys ‘Power of Percussion’
By Krystal Valentin
Jersey City, N.J.

The muggy air and the scorching sun didn’t deter attendees young and old from learning about the magic of music at the third annual West Windsor Music Festival on July 28 at the Nassau Park Pavilion.

This year’s festival, titled “The Power of Percussion,” was sponsored by the West Windsor Arts Council to provide a showcase for local music groups. For West Windsor resident Lyne Simpson, 31, the day presented an opportunity to share her love for salsa and merengue music with her twin daughters, Felisa and Mary, 9. Simpson, who learned to dance while attending Rutgers University, has both daughters enrolled in salsa and merengue dance classes. She said she feels it is important to give her kids the same exposure to the arts that she had as a child.

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El Cantante in Theaters in the New Brunswick, NJ area.

For salsa dancers, salsa music is as familiar and as necessary as the air they breath… for salsa dancers. However, salsa is not Pop Culture, there are still loads of people that have not been introduced to the beautiful world of salsa.

El Cantante, released Friday, Aug 3rd 2007, is a movie featuring the life of Salsa singer Hector Lavoe (played by Marc Anthony). Read the rest of this entry »

Scarlet Mambo was invited to perform at the 2007 NJ Folk Festival (same day and location as AG Field Day).

Scarlet Mambo Performance
@ NJ Folk Festival. Skylands Stage.
Douglass Campus – New Brunswick, NJ
Saturday, April 28th 2007 – 10:30am
Directions

Come and watch Scarlet Mambo perform.  And after the performance, the whole Scarlet Mambo gang is going to spend the day at AG Field Day.  So come hang out with us too!
Here are some pictures of AG Field Day 2006.

Update 4/29/07:
Pictures of Bailamos 2007 are available now .

Bailamos 2007 is here. The RU Salsa Club has done an excellent job this year.

Featuring DJ Dany J (Yours truly)

Performances by
RU Salsa Club
Scarlet Mambo
Angie Gomez

Live music by Swing Sabroso.

Free Admission. Free Food. Free Salsa Lessons.

Bailamos
8:00pm
Wednesday, April 25th 2007
Douglass Student Center – Trayes Hall

Look! It looks like Thidian and Gina on the flier!!!