What's a Salsa Festival without music?
Rain or shine didn't stop the bands on the stage from taking their music right to the people.
Here are the bands, most of them local, that made it all possible.
The relationship between musicians and their audience is special. The audience calls out to them, applauds them, dances to their music, and reacts to what they are doing on the stage. The musicians respond the audience, and they play and sing with more passion. A relationship develops with the musicians and their audience that no CD can ever come close to duplicating.
Street dancing has an energy that nightclubs cannot even hope to capture. There is an innocence, a spontaneity that connects the dancers with the musicians that are making the music. A relelationship develops, blooms and fades over the length of a song or a set.
While the dancers remain nameless, the Musicians include Jazz FM92's Amanda Martinez, singer Lusito Rosario who fronted Cafe Cubano, Senterias, Lucho de Sedes, Ecuadorian group Imbayakunas, Bachata dynamo Carlos Cruz, Cache, Mapale, Brazilian percussionists Maracatu Nunca Antes, Fuzion, Rumbason, musicians from Cassava.
