What was your favorite salsa concert in 2008 ?

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bailar y tocar

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Any concert is fine but if it was salsa please tell.

My favorite salsa concert of 2008:
Roberto Roena at the Chicago Salsa Congress on Sunday February 17, 2008.
From a review I posted elsewhere:
The top highlight of this event was the closing song of the closing act by one of the most famous salsa bands from Puerto Rico: Roberto Roena y Apollo Sound. In this final song (before the encore as the audience wouldn't let them off the stage), bandleader Roberto Roena, a dancer, bongosero and campanero, called dancers to join him on stage to dance with him. Tito Ortos, Gordon Neil, Vanessa Millan, Mark-Anthony Sheppard, Andy Cruz, Griselle Ponce, Saladeen Alamin and more, about 20 professional dancers in all, danced in line in front of the stage. Then one by one they did solos while the lead singer improvised a soneo, the coro phrased the tune and the percussion section kept the rhythm or improvised. Meanwhile everyone else in the audience stopped dancing and rushed up to the stage to watch the show and join in on the coro. It was a moment to remember and I hope the many people recording with their video cameras will post them on youtube some day.
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My favorite non-salsa concert of 2008:
A tough choice but I have to go with Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra who did an impromtu after show at the Dakota Jazz Club after their performance at Minneapolis Orchestra Hall across the street in early summer. I had never seen sax and horn players tease so much sound variety out of their instruments. Obviously, they were in the mood and just hanging out for fun.
 
Frankie Morales at the Spirit of Burgas (august 2008) festival. I suppose many people might be wondering what festival I am talking about. Take a look - http://www.spiritofburgas.com/
For some pretty strange reason whenever I go to Frankie's concerts(this was the second time I had a chance to hear him live) I end up with a pretty severe pain in my legs on the following day. I find it pretty hard not to dance when this guy sings:D
 
It's really hard to pick one favourite out of:
- Cheo Feliciano singing with New Swing Sextet at the LA congress
- LA33 concert in Tokyo
- Bronx Horns at the Singapore festival

So I'll pick none of them and instead go for Frankie Vazquez singing after the closing party of the Singapore festival, accompanied only by two percussionists and a coro of dancers.
youtube.com/watch?v=uRluua5D3FU

It's been a great year for me as far as live music is concerned :D
 
MacMoto said:
It's really hard to pick one favourite out of:
- Cheo Feliciano singing with New Swing Sextet at the LA congress
- LA33 concert in Tokyo
- Bronx Horns at the Singapore festival

So I'll pick none of them and instead go for Frankie Vazquez singing after the closing party of the Singapore festival, accompanied only by two percussionists and a coro of dancers.
youtube.com/watch?v=uRluua5D3FU

It's been a great year for me as far as live music is concerned :D
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Cheo singing with the New Swing Sextet!!! Sounds divine! Hate I missed it.
 
This year I saw:

Marc Anthony, LA 33, Orquesta Guanacan, La Excelencia, DLG, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, A lot of Local bands, Juan Luis Guera, Son de cali, Manulito, Monchi y Alexandra, Amarvis, Rubén Blades

And..... the best is.... : La Excelencia
 
Andree said:
This year I saw:

Marc Anthony, LA 33, Orquesta Guanacan, La Excelencia, DLG, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, A lot of Local bands, Juan Luis Guera, Son de cali, Manulito, Monchi y Alexandra, Amarvis,

And..... the best is.... : La Excelencia
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I would have guessed as much. Everyone I know speaks very highly of their live performances.
 
Hmmm. I guess I did pretty well with live bands in 2008. My list is in chronogical order...

La 33
Andy Montanez & Mercadonegra
New Swing Sextet (twice)
Eddie Palmieri & La Perfecta II
El Gran Combo del Puerto Rico

I'd say that New Swing Sextet was the best for dancing. For musicianship, I'd rate Eddie Palmieri and La Perfecta II on top (despite Palmieri not doing much solo).
 
bailar y tocar said:
My favorite salsa concert of 2008:
Roberto Roena at the Chicago Salsa Congress on Sunday February 17, 2008.
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Since folks are listing all the salsa concerts, here is my list of others:
Son band at Casa de la Trova (Santiago de Cuba)
Bobby Fe y su ... at Casa de la Trova
Havana C
Sur Caribe
Adalberto Alvarez y su Son
Ocho y Mas
Grupo Gale
Sammy Garcia Y Sabor de Puerto Rico
Poncho Sanchez
 
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