CARNAVAL DEL PUEBLO - SUNDAY AUGUST 1ST - London's Second Biggest Carnival | Other
LIVE Event!
Live Artist: Grupo Niche, Oscar D’León, Willie Colón, Adalberto Santiago, Gilberto Santa Rosa and Henry Fiol –the salsa giants– as well as Lizandro Mesa and The Embajadores Vallenatos,
Main DJs: Jose Louis
30 November -0001 18:00 - 23:00
phone: 020 8959 9131
Special this year is the Carnaval Del Pueblo’s attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the Most Couples Dancing Salsa At The Same Time, led by Tara Hoyos- Martinez, the current Miss Universe GB, and everyone is welcome to enter, whether in a couple or not.
“We will team people up in couples and they don’t have to have any experience of salsa, although we will be putting the steps up on our website for people who want to practice. We just want people who want to do it, sign up at our site, join in, have fun and break the record which is 550 couples. Something like this also shows that we are touching people with our culture more than ever,” says Paola Estrada,event co-ordinator for CDP.
The carnival has a history of attracting world class stars and Grammy Prize winners such as Grupo Niche, Oscar D’León, Willie Colón, Adalberto Santiago, Gilberto Santa Rosa and Henry Fiol –the salsa giants– as well as Lizandro Mesa and The Embajadores Vallenatos, who enjoy almost God-like stature in Latin America, and who introduced the highly danceable Cumbia and Vallenato music to the West.
This year’s Special Guests are NYC’s Salsa stars, the Lebron Brothers, playing their eternal classics such as “Salsa Y Control” and “La temperatura”, and recent smashes, “Si me Permite”, “Complicados”, and “Culebra”,
Carnaval also presents a multitude of London and European-based artists performing the best of cutting edge Latino rhythms, beats and songs. Now with a hotbed of second-generation latino musical and dance talents cross-pollenating traditional rhythms and sounds with our modern urban soundtrack , London is now one of the key and developing influential cities on the latin music world map.
CARNAVAL DEL PUEBLO www.carnavaldelpueblo.co.uk
Times:
Float Parade (12pm-3pm) NB: You can actually attend the preparation of the floats, before the parade starts, at Elephant Road, from 10am.
Procession 12pm-3pm
The float procession leaves Elephant Road at 12pm travelling through Walworth Road, Albany Road and reaching Burgess Park around 3pm
Nearest Tube station to Elephant & Castle (SE1)
Burgess Park, Albany Rd, Camberwell, London, SE5 ORJ. (10am-10pm)
Attractions start at midday, and there is easy access from Elephant and Castle underground and British Rail stations plus Bus numbers 36, 12, 171, 68, 68a, 45, 176, 63, 172.
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