Mambo Fridays! Victor Maysonet Bday Bash - 2.9.18

We welcome you to Mambo Fridays, *the* Mambo dance social of downtown Washington DC! We celebrate Puerto Rican dynamo salsa teacher Victor Maysonet's birthday at Mambo Friday's this week! Headlining this week is Chris Flores aka DJ FLO! DJ FLO will be laying down a heavy hand of his wonderous sonic treasures! Old school favorite, Vhmaysonet DanceCo will be providing a classic mambo workshop for your serious learning pleasure! Come and join us as we get down and MAMBO in the Nation's Capital! 18+ to dance, 21+ to drink, DRESS TO BE STUNNING, DRESS TO IMPRESS! A night of mambo, in downtown DC!! * WE ARE GOING PAST 2AM!!!! This is a real dance party!!!! * $15 for classic mambo workshop and entrance! * $10 for entrance only, before 11pm with RSVP (press going)! * $13 after 11pm. * DETAILS * * Classic mambo lesson by one of DC's old school favorites, Victor Maysonet, from 9:30-10:30pm! * DJ FLO will be handing down serious MAMBO! An old school jam - 95% classic mambo, guaguanco, salsa all night in the main dance hall! * 1 main dance hall and 4 smaller, more intimate dance spaces for a serious mambo voyage!! Dance party madness!!! * $15 for one workshop and entrance! * $10 entrance (with check-in) BEFORE 11PM (DOES NOT INCLUDE CLASS) * $13 Entrance after 11pm * 18+ to dance, 21+ to drink! * Dress to impress! * Drink specials all night * Happy hour prices till midnight! Kitchen closes at 1am! 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!!!