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Event: Sabroso
Lessons: Salsa
Lesson Structure: Salsa
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Lessons: Street Jive
Lesson Structure: Street Jive
Workshop: Teachers Course
Teacher Certification
Workshop: Teachers' Sundays
Workshop: Percussion (Level One)
Workshop: Tango Argentino (Level One)
Music: Grupo Chévere
Music: Wanted! Latin Music Enthusiasts
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Grupo Chévere

Grupo Chévere features an incredibly tight rhythmic line-up underlining violin, saxophone, guitar and tres - a uniquely dynamic combination giving their trademark sound of modern charanga fusion with a hard percussive drive.

Fiery, Passionate, Energetic, Entertaining,
 

They're all that.

From son-guaguancó to out-and-out club-floor salsa, their music arrangements are irresistibly danceable.

Olga (vocals), Ana (percussion) Jeremy (keyboards), Loo (congas) Tim (tenor sax)
Olga (vocals), Ana (percussion), Gustavo (bass) Harris (timbales) Listeners don't just listen for long.

With a philosophy like
''Music was made for dancing',
you just have to live the experience
of Salsa's sharpest cutting edge.

Chévere are:

Jeremy (keyboards), Gustavo (bass) Ana (percussion & vocals)
Gustavo (bass guitar)
Charilaos "Harris" Alexakis:
 
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timbales, bongó, tin whistle, congas
 
Martha Ares:
vocals
 
Connie Carrizo:
vocals
 
Tim Chester:
tenor saxophone
 
Nathan Dixon:
electric guitar, tres, congas, bass guitar
 
Joe Giacomin:
congas
 
Olga Kassimis:
lead vocals
 
Maria Esther Labarca:
vocals
 
Ana Santiago Menendez:
hand percussion, vocals, congas
 
Jeremy Wise:
piano, vocals
 
Loo Yeo:
congas, bass guitar, vocals, hand percussion, piano
 

Artistic influences:
Ray Barretto, Sergio George, Oscar Hernandez, Rebeca Mauleón-Santana, Orquesta De La Luz, Orquesta Gitano, Johnny Pacheco, Johnny Polanco, José Luis “Changuito” Quintana, Santana, Marty Sheller, Carlos “Patato” Valdes.

 

 
©1999 Salsa & Merengue Society
University of Sheffield Union of Students, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TG.
Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 8748 - Email: enquiries@salsa-merengue.co.uk