updated 01/18/05
- Salsa/Rueda Classes with Fahad
Saturdays 3 to 4pm at Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th Street ,Sacramento (South of Broadway)
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Salsa in Davis and Sacramento
- Davis Graduate, 9:00 pm Thursday, 805 Russell (University Mall), Davis
- Blue Water Bar and Grill, 8:30 pm Friday, 5420 Auburn Blvd Sacramento
- Avalon Bar and Nightclub, 7:00 pm Sunday, 15th and H street Sacramento
Salsa Around the Bay
Live Salsa band at Jelly's, 4-8 pm Sunday, Pier 50 San Francisco
Allegra Ballroom, 9 pm Sunday, Emeryville
Check out these calendars every week:
- Fahad's Current Events web page
- SalsaCrazy's Monthly Calendar
- SalsaSF's Calendar)
- AfroCubaWeb's "Current Tour" listings
Purchase tickets online:
- virtuous.com
- tickets.com
- ticketweb.com
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Salsa Clubs
Davis
- The Davis Graduate, 805
Russell Blvd, (530)758-4723
- Thursdays $5 cover, min. age: 18, casual dress code
Sacramento
- Blue Water Bar and Grill, 8:30 pm Friday, 5420 Auburn Blvd
- Salsa on Fridays, $5.00, min. age: 21, lesson fron 8:30 to 9:30
- Avalon Bar and Nightclub, 7:00 pm Sunday, 15th and H street
- Salsa on Sundays, $5.00, dress to impress, min. age: 21, lesson fron 7:00 to 8:00
- Harlow's, 7:00 pm Sunday, 2708 J
- Salsa on Sundays, $5.00, strict dress code, min. age: 21, lesson fron 7:00 to 8:00
Bay Area
- Yoshi's, Oakland, (Jack London
Square)
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- La Pena, Berkeley
- Check out salsacrazy.com
for Bay Area salsa club recommendations for each day of the week
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Salsa Lessons
Davis
- Barbara's Dancing Tonight, Sycamore Lane, Davis
- Wednesdays, Beginning Salsa at 7:00, Intermediate Salsa at 8:00, Rueda at 9:00
- UCD Experimental College (916-752-2568)
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Sacramento
- Fahad's Salsa and Rueda lessons.
- Del Campo Dance Studio, 2993 Fulton Ave. Sacramento
- Mondays, Wednesdays 9:00 PM, Saturdays 8:00 PM, (916)483-5292
- Saturday Nights, 8:00 PM Lesson, 9:00 PM Dance, $7 cover, casual dress code, no minimum age
Bay Area
- Cuban Salsa, Rueda at The Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco
- $10 drop in Rueda lessons in Berkeley and San Francisco
- beginner, intermediate, and advanced lessons
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Salsa Notes Online
- "Understanding Salsa/Mambo Timing": technical explanation of several variations of the basic step.
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- "HOT SALSA : the dictionary"
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- "Salsa 101"
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- Glossary of Dancing Terms
- at ballroomdancers.com
- "Salsa & Mambo Dance History"
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- Salsa Dance Patterns
- large list of moves
check this out: Salsa instruction from the UK!
- Salsa Crib-sheet
- breakdown of some basic moves.
- "The Salsa Moves Repository"
- breakdown of a collection of patterns. Check out the rest of this Salsa website.
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Music
- Nehad, Salsa & Merengue DJ at The Davis
Graduate and private parties. Check out Nehads mixes. Click to listen.
- Descarga.com Source of Latin Music
CDs
- Putumayo.com Source of World Music
CDs
- Salsa Music Links
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- Timba, the new salsa from
Cuba
- Read about it and listen to RealAudio samples
- More at Timba.com
- Latin
Percussion Instruments Salsa Toys!
- KDVS, 90.3FM,
Afro-Cuban & Latin Jazz, Saturday noon to 3:00
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Salsa Links
- SalsaSacramento.com, Fahad's Salsa web page
- Salsa dance shoes at the Ballroom Connection in Sunnyvale
- Cheap Thrills Clothing, 1217 21st St Sacramento, 446-9704
- Specializing in shirts, shoes, dresses for Salsa, Swing
- salsacrazy.com
- Bay Area Salsa scene.
- salsasf.com
- Bay Area Salsa & Latin Jazz music and dance scene.
- latinbayarea.com
- AfroCubaWeb.com
- "SalsaArtists.com"
- Salsaville
- Eric Freeman's web site
- The DanceFreak
- Edie The Salsa Freak's web site
- Salsaweb.com
- Host to City Guides where you will find Sacramento, San Francisco, and hopefully some day, Davis.
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Salsa Instructional Videos
http://www.latindancer.com/html/how_to_dance.html
- Neal's Salsa Video link Site
- Lists, descriptions, recommendations, and links to every salsa video on the planet.
- Salsaville
- Eric Freeman's excellent video series "Cool Moves Revealed", "Salsa a la Cubana", and "Salsa Addict"
- Dancstudent.com
- Download short MPEG video clips of Mambo patterns. A little rough but good enough to learn new moves. I think this is a promissing technology.
- bustamove.com
- Download short Quicktime video clips of salsa patterns. Yet another attempt at online dance instruction.
- Online VIDEO CLIPS at ballroomdancers.com
- Good enough to learn from.
- Online "mov" clips of Salsa and Merengue
- I hope you have DSL or Cable!
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Etc.
- "Davis411.com",
- online guide to food and entertainment in Davis
- "S&NR Scene&Heard",
- the online Sacramento News & Reviews guide to the local music scene. Also: movie listings and reviews, restaurant reviews and smaple menus
- "SACRAMENTO.com", online guide to local entertainment.
- Music, Dance, Movies, Food, etc.
- "Sacramento Yellow Pages", online search for restaurants etc.
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