Mambo Fridays No. 74 - Nov 16th Guest List!

Mambo Fridays brings you the best in rising new salsa/mambo talent of the Nation's Capital! This week we welcome one of the best beginner-level instructors in the region, Cleve R. Wootson Jr. for a fun and exciting open-level salsa class! Workshop will start promptly at 10pm! If you are new to salsa on2/mambo, this class is for you! Afterwards, boogie the night away to one of downtown DC's favorite DJ's, direct from the city of brotherly love, Roland Simmons aka DJ Phillyboy! Get down this Friday with the classic good foot salsa mambo stompers you've come to expect from Mambo Fridays! We are keeping the late night MAMBO tradition alive, every week in downtown Washington DC! Mambo began its roots on U St in Washington, DC over 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! We are committed to keeping the mambo tradition ALIVE in Washington DC! Join us as we get down and MAMBO in the Nation's Capital this coming Mambo Fridays! PRESS "GOING" FOR THIS GUEST LIST: - $10 B4 MIDNIGHT *with* FB check-in - $15 after midnight - $15 for workshop and party DRESS CODE: LATE NIGHT MAMBO AGE: 21+ 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!!!