One of Toronto’s most popular Cuban music groups, Son Ache performs their patented blend of high-energy son montuno that has been packing dance-floors for years.

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Greet 2012 with a night of great music. Experience Lula’s unique Caribbean / Latin fusion cuisine followed by dancing to the country’s most prestigious live salsa orchestra. Internationally celebrated Cuban pianist Hilario Duran brings the Lula Salsa All Stars to Lula for an evening you’ll never forget!

Lula Lounge has a $150 dinner and show special that guarantees seating for the whole evening and includes appetizer, main course, dessert, bubbly at midnight, all entertainment, tax and tip.  Lula’s unique Caribbean Latin fusion cuisine has recently been featured on NEWSTALK 1010 and at Harbourfront’s Hot and Spicy Festival!

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12 great Cuban musicians offer an orchestra with a new latin flavour and a repertoire based on the most popular Latin dance rhythms like salsa, merengue, cumbia, bachata and son.

One of TO’s great NEW badass Cuban bands, these guys grab the crowd and make them dance!

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Join us for the best salsa dance party in town. With their potent blend of dancefloor-friendly salsa and high-energy showmanship, Cafe Cubano evokes the spirit of the legendary dance clubs of Havana.  Latin DJ for the band interludes.  Sarita Leyva teaches a beginner salsa lesson an hour before the band.

416 588 0307

http://lulalounge.ca

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Son Aché is the current definition of “dance party” in Toronto.

One of Toronto’s most popular Cuban music groups, Son Aché performs their patented blend of high-energy son montuno that has been packing dance-floors for many years.

Just $15 for dancing only or $54 for the dinner, dance lesson and show package. Our dinner package guarantees seating for the night and includes any appetizer, any main course and any dessert, the 9pm beginner salsa lesson and three sets by the live salsa band.

Click for Son Ache sample music.

This collaboration of some of the top Cuban/Latin musicians in Toronto began in 1999 with mutual goal to compose, interpret and perform classic son montuno, the root of contemporary salsa. Their appeal derives from a successful melding of diverse talent, infectious energy, years of combined musical education, knowledge and experience, and the obvious affection for the music they play: a driving and aggressive tumbao which gives the group it’s contemporary urban edge and ?abor (flavour). Son Ache maintains the integrity, tradition and passion, while broadening the allure of old cuban son, and engaging a wider audience of dancers and music lovers of all backgrounds… see “www.myspace.com/elsonache”

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In the DOWNSTAIRS section of El Rancho Nightclub…  Canada’s lifeline to Cuba in person… DJ BERNAL…  will be spinning the best Salsa, Timba and Reggueton in Toronto.

430 College St, Toronto, ON M5T1T3

$10 cover

Hope to see you all there!

Strength in numbers: SYNERGY, go to the Spanish Harlem Orchestra  Salsa Christmas at Koerner Hall… then a few blocks to turn up the temperature ALL THE WAY with BERNAL.

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Friday night fiesta!  Timba con rumba!

• Live rumba with Iya Ire Drum and Dance Ensemble

• DJ Bernal spinning the hottest timba and reggaeton.

AND

• Havana Club bottles $80, Heineken and Cuba Libres $5

Epic Lounge is at  1355 St Clair Ave West in Toronto.

Doors Open at 9 pm.

5$ Cover before 10 pm, 10$ after 10 pm.

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A note from Jay Danley:

“Hi, just wanted to let your readers know that Los Caballeros Del Son will be performing beautiful Cuban son and guaracha next week.

It’s at The Local pub, 396 Roncesvalles ave. on Thursday November 24 2011 at 10 p.m.

Los Caballeros are fronted by tres player Jay Danley from Klave Y Kongo, Son Ache and Ladyson Y Articulo Vente.

There is no cover as this is a pay what you can event, so please come and bring your friends and your dancing shoes!”

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The Nutcracker Festival 2011 – December 6th, 9th and 10th and art exhibit from Nov 11- Dec 11.

At Hamilton Place,  Hamilton welcomes 4 stars of Ballet Nacional de Cuba; all named among the best 100 dancers of the 2010-2011 season by the prestigious Dance Europe magazine. They will appear with 53 other members of the National Ballet of Cuba, local children and special guests, Veronica Tennant and Toller Cranston.

This year’s Nutcracker Ballet is inspired by the classic fairytale enchantingly revitalized in a storybook by Veronica Tennant and Toller Cranston.  Graced with a highly-prized appearance by Veronica Tennant, this year’s The Nutcracker Ballet is a dazzling spectacle of stunning costumes, impressive special effects and fantastical scenery all serving to showcase the internationally acclaimed talents of the Nacional Ballet of Cuba with rising young Hamilton stars from the Canadian Ballet Youth Ensemble.

The Nutcracker Festival 2011 sparkles with distinction:
* Celebrate opening night at a reception with guests Veronica Tennant and Toller Cranston  Dec 9th
* Engage in “Ballet Talk” with Gary Smith, Theatre and Dance Critic, The Hamilton Spectator
* Indulge in The Chocolate Dream, a blissful brunch and silky dessert paradise  Dec 10th
* Shop in an exclusive and unique marketplace, The Sugar Plum Fair  Dec 9-10 for Nutcracker patrons
**The Artcracker, Nov. 11 to Dec. 11 Free exhibition of the vibrant and transcendent artwork of Hamilton-born Toller Cranston at the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel.    Free Admission

The Mixcracker  on  December 6th at Hamilton Place is an evening of six performances by the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Six performances intertwine contemporary dance with traditional ballet, underlining the often joyful and humourous, sometimes exotic and complex but, always unique, dance dialect of Cuba.  Evening event – to check time

Performances on:

Dec 9^th – 7:30pm

Dec 10^th – 2:00pm and 7:30pm

For info / tickets, www.hamiltonnutcracker.com or Hamilton Nutcracker Box office: 905-577-7788 or 905-577-9977 or Ticketmaster 1 855 872 5000 or www.ticketmaster.ca

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Iya Ire, continues their customary rumba every Sunday at Epic Lounge.  It’s a true big slice of  Havana in Toronto!

Cuban Rumba Live, Yoruba, Abakua, Congo…every Sunday EPIC Lounge with Iya Ire from 4:00pm to 8:00pm.

No te lo pierdas!!!  Now featuring the best food imaginable for rumba… a Cuban style dinner.

It’s at 1355 St. Clair Avenue West every Sunday…

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