Salsa Euphoria

Salsa Euphoria started back in 1998 emerging as one of the most successful salsa night promotions in the UK. Running its weekly Friday night salsa from the club Ella's in Wembley, Salsa Euphoria opened its doors to a regular 200 plus salsarios every Friday.
We also hosted a Saturday party night every month with over 400 salsarios dancing the night away.

Don One, who is the founder of Salsa Euphoria, played host to many performers from the UK, USA & Worldwide, sadly this all came to an end, through club managers & owners dispute. Don One continued to work with other promoters within the UK under the Salsa Euphoria banner.

In May 2007 Don One approached 3 like minded friends about doing a regular salsa party night, all 3 readily agreed and so we planned our first theme party night called Hawaiian Salsa. We needed a name to promote under and what better name then Salsa Euphoria.

The 4th August 2007 saw the rebirth of Salsa Euphoria & its party nights hosted by KateB, KatieK, Liz & Don One, we have since gone on to host further successful parties.

Salsa Euphoria makes the best party nights, we live to dance......

 

A Brief History of Salsa

Imagine a basket of fruit. In that basket each fruit represents a different musical style from various different countries. The main ones are jazz, el son, cha cha cha, rumba, guaracha, cumria, merengue and reggae. Blend them all together and what have you got? SALSA!

Some of these musical styles were themselves a blend of different cultures. El son, for example, was born when the drums of Africa and guitars from Spain met in Cuba.

In the 1930’s Mario Bauza traveled from Cuba with Don Azpiazu’s band to New York City and settled in Harlem. Later Machito, Chano Pozo and other musicians joined him in New York and began mixing jazz with Cuban rhythms.

The mambo was created in the 1940’s by Prez Prado in Mexico City.

In the 50’s the rhythms of mambo, cha cha cha and rumba were the rage. The Latin style of music was showing up everywhere including Hollywood films and American television.

Due in part to the tremendous British invasion of the 1960’s (the Rolling Stones, Beatles etc) the popularity of Latin music experienced a serious decline. The 1970’s however saw a resurgence in Latin music’s popularity. The Fania record label and its executives played a large role in development and marketing this tremendous music in both New York and Puerto Rico.

Once this music hit Puerto Rico they embraced and advanced it to where it is today. Every year the World Salsa Congress takes place in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Salsa continues to evolve, develop and gather large numbers of fans. It has been accepted and enjoyed by people all around the world.

Salsa is not a fad or a passing phase. This time Salsa is here to stay.


Researched and written by Danny J.