It’s a busy, exciting start of the week for fans of classic Latin salsa music. Last night, Puerto Rican legends La Sonora Poncena were at the Salsa Room, and today and tomorrow offer distinctive events, as well. This afternoon, starting at 4:30 p.m. at George Mason University, there's a free panel discussion titled "Santeros to [...]
On Saturday night, Dance Place celebrates its 30th anniversary—not with a performance, but with a gala. This benefit event for this D.C. non-profit home of modern, hip-hop, and other dance styles will feature music by local Latin band Rumba Club and DJ Glowstick. Jim Byers, Artisphere’s marketing director and the host of WPFW’s "Latin Flavor" [...]
Earlier this year, Rosslyn’s civic leaders were touting the Arlington neighborhood opposite Georgetown as “Manhattan on the Potomac.” And now with the brand new Artisphere—which will open this weekend with a series of galas advertised heavily to the District’s cultural classes—they may have their Lincoln Center.
But that leaves out a complicating factor: Back in the [...]
In the past, we highlighted WPFW DJ Jim Byers’ first annual “Metro Mambo” series of free concerts and lectures, panel discussions, and dance parties at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, and starting tomorrow, it's back for a second season, this time with an opening event including "Mambo on Film," and a concert and lecture featuring longtime local band Orquesta La [...]
Saturday offers a trio of very special choices for fans of Cuban music. The latest edition of WPFW DJ Jim Byers’ “Metro Mambo” discussion and dance concert series at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum kicks things off in the afternoon with Mimi Machado-Luces, an Afro-Venezuelan Howard University graduate who won an Emmy Award for her [...]
This is a busy weekend for international sounds. Here are some recommendations.
Saturday
WPFW DJ Jim Byers leads a panel discussion on the history of D.C. Latin-music clubs with music from Bio Ritmo from 2 to 4 p.m. for free at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE.
The 13th Annual D.C. Reggae Awards will be [...]
Back in November, WPFW Sunday night DJ Jim Byers kicked off the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum’s “Metro Mambo: Latin Music in DC” series of concerts and lectures with a special program titled “Mambo in Mexico.” I contacted him then about the program and posted an interview here.
Byers will be back at the same museum on [...]
“METRO MAMBO: Latin Music in DC,” a free, six part series of concert-lectures on Saturdays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, kicks off on November 28, 2009. Jim Byers, a WPFW DJ, writer, and jack-of-all-trades, created the series and is hosting it with a different band and occasional guests [...]
