With their potent blend of dancefloor-friendly salsa and high-energy showmanship, Cafe Cubano evoke the spirit of the legendary dance clubs of Havana.

Join us for dancing after 9pm ($15 includes the lesson) or come early and enjoy our $49 dinner and show package. Our dinner package guarantees seating for the night and includes appetizer, main course and dessert, the 9pm beginner salsa lesson and three sets by the live salsa band.

Since their debut performance at Lula Lounge in September 2005, Cafe Cubano have dominated Lula Lounge’s weekends with their potent blend of dance-floor friendly salsa and high-energy showmanship.

Drawing on the skills of three of Toronto’s most accomplished frontmen – singers Yani Borrell, Alberto Alberto and Angel Luis Marquez – an evening with Cafe Cubano evokes the spirit of the legendary dance clubs of Havana.

Lead by music director/pianist Jorge Betancourt and featuring some of Toronto’s finest musicians from such famous Cuban groups as Adalberto Alvarez y su Son and Cubanisimo, Jorge Betancourt y su Cafe Cubano are one of the most in-demand groups in Toronto’s latin music scene today.

At 9PM we’ll host our weekly dance lesson by Ana Machado. A professional dancer since she was 6 years old, Ana has danced with Havana’s Escuela Nacional de la Danza, the prestigious Compania de la Danza Moderna and as lead dancer in the famous Tropicana dance troupe, with which she has toured the globe

Event Details:
Door time: 7PM
Salsa Lesson: 9PM
Show start time: 10PM
Admission: $15 admission includes dance lesson
$49 dinner, dance lesson, and show package reserve 416-588-0307
Presented by: Lula Music and Arts Centre

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Harvest Presents: Ìlúçgbê.

A weekly event bringing Cuban and Jamaican roots…every Saturday

Location is Harvest at 992 St Clair

Ìlúçgbê – in Yoruba means community. Netto Man’s Ìlúçgbê event aims to bridge lovers of Cuban and Jamaican culture through music creating one community – Ìlúçgbê

Host: Netto Man

Saturdays:Doors @ 10pm
Cover: Free

Live Rumba Sessions 10-11pm
With Raymundo Sosa – percussionist extraordinaire straight outta Cuba..

Music provided by
Dj Kenadrop (Ragga Jungle, Reggae)
Dj D’Boys (Afro – Cuban Fusion, Urban Organic)
Dj Kush Nubia (Afro Fusion, Reggae)

And various artists passing through touching the mic creating a wicked vibe…

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Jorge Betancourt y su Cafe Cubano

Since their debut performance at Lula Lounge in September 2005, Cafe Cubano have dominated Lula Lounge’s weekends with their potent blend of dance-floor friendly salsa and high-energy showmanship.

Drawing on the skills of three of Toronto’s most accomplished frontmen – singers Yani Borrell, Alberto Alberto and Angel Luis Marquez – an evening with Cafe Cubano evokes the spirit of the legendary dance clubs of Havana.

Lead by music director/pianist Jorge Betancourt and featuring some of Toronto’s finest musicians from such famous Cuban groups as Adalberto Alvarez y su Son and Cubanisimo, Jorge Betancourt y su Cafe Cubano are one of the most in-demand groups in Toronto’s latin music scene today.

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At AfroLatino Dance Company… 585 Yonge St near Wellesley in Toronto.

7PM to 9PM Saturdays.

(All Levels)
Your opportunity to practice your salsa in a relaxed environment specially geared towards students. Take advantage of these sessions of non-stop music, where you can practice your moves with other students, friends, and the instructors.

While it is not a class in the sense that no new moves will be taught, you can still receive some amount of feedback from the instructors should you wish so.

Cost: $5 per person. Check out the full slate of Cuban style dance lessons at AfroLatino !

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Joseph hosts this, and says:

Do you want actually dance CASINO, and not LA or NY styles, in your ruedas? Me too.

Anyone want to meet regulary to do some casino rueda, Cuban style?

I am not a professional or dance instructor. You teach me what you know and I teach you what I know. The important thing is to keep dancing.

As it turns out, we are meeting every Saturday downtown, 12-3 PM in a central downtown location. And alternate Thursdays, about 8-10 pm, same location. Find out more details by emailing: joseph kim <joekim27@yahoo.com>. There is no FINANCIAL cost… but you WILL be required to sweat… dancing with “vigah”… to 100% Cuban timba music. Join the mailing list via Facebook to be updated on last minute changes.

Click here to see a team performance we put on at the recent Pupy show.

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