Mambo back on U St! 6.22.18 Guestlist!

***FYI MUST READ*** THE EVENT WILL GET PACKED. THERE WILL BE A LINE. Please purchase your ticket online for guaranteed fast-track into the party. Cash at the event will have to wait in line! THERE WILL BE A LINE! THIS EVENT WILL BE PACKED!!! ONLINE TICKETING: - $15 ONLINE for class and general admission - $10 ONLINE for general admission AT THE EVENT CASH: - $20 AT THE EVENT for class and general admission - $13 AT THE EVENT for general admission ONLINE TICKETING: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mambo-fridays-mambo-back-on-u-st-62218-tickets-47284937521 The return of Mambo Fridays!!! We know you've missed us... which is why we're back with a pop-up summer series at Local 16, in the heart of the historic U St! Mambo began in Washington, DC on U St 70 years ago. And in a time where salsa/mambo continues to be pushed further out into the suburbs, our mission is to keep salsa/mambo alive and kicking in downtown DC! Mambo is BACK on U St! We kick off Mambo Fridays for the summer with two of Washington DC's top salsa stars: DJ Jon Treviño and Angela Townsend of Ardiente Dance Company! We've pulled DJ Trevino out of semi-retirement to play his second set of 2018, exclusively for us! Angela is a rising salsa star in the Washington DC area, and is the freshest face of a leading crop of next generation salsa dancers in the DMV. She will be teaching a workshop on the freshest take of salsa On 2/mambo from the Capital region of the United States. Join the East Coast's most famous salsa promoter, Mr. Go Go Earl Rush, Luz Rodriguez-Mercier, Cleve R. Wootson Jr., and Jimmy Yoon as we get down and MAMBO in the Nation's Capital this coming Mambo Fridays! 21+ to drink, DRESS SUMMER FRESH! A summer Friday night of mambo, in downtown DC!! * DETAILS * * WE ARE GOING PAST 2AM!!!! This is a real dance party!!!! * Fresh mambo lesson by Angela Townsend from 9-10pm! * DJ Jon Treviño will be handing down the guaguanco smack down! NO REQUESTS - HARD MAMBO/SALSA/GUAGUANCO and a chaser of whatever he likes... * 21+ to drink! * Dress to impress! * Drink specials all night ONLINE TICKETING: - $15 ONLINE for class and general admission - $10 ONLINE for general admission AT THE EVENT CASH: - $20 AT THE EVENT for class and general admission - $13 AT THE EVENT for general admission ONLINE TICKETING: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mambo-fridays-mambo-back-on-u-st-62218-tickets-47284937521 MAMBO: "The word mambo was likely being used in the New World as soon as the Bakongo people arrived in the sixteenth century... basically, mambo means a complex of things involving communication - all of which, in traditional Bantu culture, involved singing. Arsenio Rodriguez, who claimed to have invented the modern musical style called mambo, and whose grandfather was Congo, told Cuban musicologist Odilio Urfe: "The word mambo is African, of the Congo dialect. One singer says to the other: abre cuto güiri mambo, that is: 'open your ear and listen to what I'm going to tell you.'" Or, in the argot of the 1980s: word up." - Ned Sublette, Cuba and its Music. See you this Friday, KEEP ON DANCING!!!