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Rumba Con Son performing live at the 2008 Puerto Rican Festival in Trenton New Jersey.
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When the town of Plainfield need to hire a Salsa Band for for their annual festival. Rumba Con Son was selected as their Salsa Band for the event and the organizers where kind enough to send us a nice thank you and some very nice compliments on our performance.
From: Eliot Martir [mailto:EliotM@pmua.org]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 12:15 PM
To: Jose Abreu
Cc: Migdalia Sanchez
Subject: RE: La Feria este pasado Sabado 9/13/2008Hola Jose,
Gracias a ustedes en ayudar a que el evento fuera un exito. Todos quedamos encantados con el profesionalismo de su presentacion y la calidad de interpretacion. Dentro de las proximas dos semanas vamos a organizar nuestra fiesta de Navidad pero hasta el momento tenemos el viernes 12 de Diciembre como fecha tentativa.
Muchas gracias y nos mantendremos en contacto.
Eliot I. Martir
Assistant Comptroller of Receivables
Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority
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Rumba con Son has been selected as one of the entertainers for this historic event.
FREEHOLD – For the first time ever the Latino Festival of western
Monmouth County will be held in downtown Freehold on Oct. 4 from 11 a.m.
to 7 p.m. The event coincides with Hispanic Heritage Month. The festival
will be held in the Monmouth County Hall of Records Annex parking lot,
Main Street.
In the event of rain the festival will be held on Oct. 11.
“This is a very important day for the Latino community of western
Monmouth County,” said Lazaro Cardenas, co-chairperson of the Latino
Festival committee. “The Latino community has contributed so much
culturally and economically to the region that it is only right they
have a day to celebrate their accomplishments. While the focus is on
Latino culture, we want everyone to participate in the day-long
festivities.
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Rumba con Son is very proud to have been selected as the entertainment at a Wedding being held on Saturday, September 27th 2008 at the Women’s Club of Englewood, 187 Brinkerhoff Court, Englewood,
NJ 07631
If you happen to be attending the wedding, please do stop by and say hello!
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Salsa dura means ‘hard’ salsa, salsa gorda means ‘fat’ salsa.
Both terms are used to describe salsa that retains the basic characteristics of classic salsa: driving rhythms, call and response, ‘montuno’ sections and socially conscious lyrics. Salsa dura is the EverReady battery musical bunny that just keeps going and going, with musical breaks and blaring brass ideal for salsa dancing.
While Puerto Rico was focusing on salsa romantica, Colombia became a bastion of their own style of salsa dura, through the lean years and remain one today. As a result, Colombia can boast some of the finest, mature salsa dura bands in the world. With groups like Grupo Niche, Sonora Carruseles, Joe Arroyo and Fruko y sus Tesos, Colombia has a clear claim to call itself the salsa dura capitol of the world.
In the last few years, young salseros in New York have also been turning to salsa dura. The Spanish Harlem Orchestra has perfected the big band salsa sound of the Fania years while Jimmy Bosch, Wayne Gorbea and La Excelencia are becoming instrumental in the rise and popularity of salsa dura around the world.