hallo, hola, hello...

just a note to announce the latest update to salsafrance.com/english - a new section of salsafrance.com that is written in english, and designed to give you a glimpse of the way that we live salsa in France.

This month's edition has an interview with Orville Small, and also short articles on the Mondial de la salsa (which will take place on the weekend of June 9-12 in Paris), and the world premiere of Salsamor Fever, a salsa musical!

Please visit the site often and send along any suggestions you might have for future articles - we look forward to welcoming you to France!

hello Julia! there is a brief description of the show in the article on the site (salsafrance.com/english) and information for buying tickets is at the end of the article. The June 9 show is sold out, but i believe there are still tickets available for the June 8 show!

hallo!

i'm glad you like the site! we're publishing the portraits of salseros (written by our publisher Jack el Oso and a few other people on the french salsa forum, i only got to translate them, but agree that they're great!) little by little, and next month we will indeed have some famous Ladies up in the spotlight as well.

a class with Orville would be great, i agree - i've never met him in person but just chatting with him on the phone convinced me that he's a great, genuine person - and is down with the music, which is a good place to be.

keep me posted if you have any ideas for articles or anything else you'd like to know about salsa in france! and also, please feel free to spread the link around!
thanks!

new articles on salsafrance.com/english a great interview with Jimmy Bosch, and a chat with DJ Gabriel, el angel... more portraits of salseros too!

sorry, it's fixed now.

(i live in rennes, and try to get to paris as often as possible, because there's great salsa things going on there almost all the time!)

hello all!
just to keep you updated, there's a new interview with Cliford and Valérie of Salsabor on Salsafrance.com's english section. Cliford is most likely the 'man who brought mambo to Paris', and with Valérie, runs the highly-respected Salsabor dance school. They're also the creators of Salsamor Fever, the salsa-opera set to live music!

check out the article at:
salsafrance.com/article.php3?id_article=346

also, the clubs article is updated for Fall, so we look forward to seeing you in Paris soon!

hello again! more new interviews, since the last time - Roberto el Cubano, notably.

salsafrance.com/english

looking forward to seeing you soon!

hallo!

just a word to let you know that there are two new english interviews on salsafrance.com/english - one with Maurice of Les Etoiles, one of Paris's oldest salsa clubs - (it was the first talking-movie theater in the world! when you come here you've got to check it out!) and also, Yuri Buenaventura on the occasion of his new album's release...

hope to see you soon!

a new interview with Azuquita (the Panamanian sonero who has sung with la Tipica 73, Tito Puente, Roberto Roena among others)... and an interview with Morry Krispijn of Holland's SalsAventura Dance school - talking about the origins of Dutch salsa, and his teaching methods.

salsafrance.com/english

hope to see you in France in the new year, happy holidays to all!