Keeping you in the loop – October 29.09 – MUNDIAL/The Afrotaino Lounge
Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Afrotaino Productions
“Con los santos no se juega… / you don’t play with the saints…”
A tiny excerpt from Hector Lavoe’s “Rompe Saraguey”.
Hello there guys, gals, and ghosts…
The aforementioned song pretty much kicks off this newsletter, since the ‘veil’ between this world & the next is at its thinnest over the next few days. We are two days away from Halloween, the infamous annual phenomenon where both the living and the dead show up to haunt us, show off their ‘costumes’, honor the deceased and eat candy. Hopefully there’s some room for a party, because that’s what we are about. Here’s what we @ Afrotaino Productions have lined up for YOU:
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10.29.09. Thursday/jueves: MUNDIAL: A NIGHT OF FUNKY WORLD SOUNDS!
Afrotaino Productions & Garces Restaurant Group invite you to MUNDIAL, a new weekly dance party in the plush, lavishly-decorated lounge below Chifa Restaurant (the Chinese-Peruvian cuisine conception of Chef Jose Garces). Chef Garces is busy kicking ass on this season’s American Iron Chef (on the Food Network! Check your local listings), and DJs Juanderfull, Joey Blanco, & Rahsaan are rocking this funky joint with rumba, reggae, latin alternative/electro-rockero, cumbia, house, funk, hiphop, samba, mambo, afrobeat, bhangra, disco, even jazz! Last week was tropical hot, and the streets are talking – this is definitely a legendary party in the making!
MUNDIAL
Every Thursday
Free Admission
Drink specials & Late Night Food Menu
Music starts 10PM
21 and over/ID Required
Chifa Lounge
(downstairs Chifa Restaurant)
707 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia
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10.31.09. Saturday/sabado: PHILLYBLOCO HALLOWEEN SAMBA DANCE PARTY!
Designed after the drum-wielding, samba-playing street bands (blocos) of Rio de Janeiro, PhillyBloco is pure rhythm, infectious grooviness, laced with that good ole’ Philly-style party attitude. You will not be able to stand still for one moment as the women and men of PhillyBloco sway, sing, & enchant their audiences with their samba/reggae/funk fusion sounds. This Saturday, the group will beat out their batacudas in true Carnaval fashion once again at World Cafe Live. So grab a costume, and grab a friend!
PHILLYBLOCO HALLOWEEN SAMBA DANCE PARTY
Saturday, Oct. 31st, 2009
Doors 8PM
$15 Admission
Tickets available thru: www.worldcafelive.com
*We strongly encourage you to purchase your tickets in advance, as this show may sell out*
World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut St.
Philadelphia
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10.31.09. Saturday/sabado: THE AFROTAINO LOUNGE!
Last week, we kicked off our new dance party and dance is what we did! We are back this Saturday (after the PhillyBloco show) to do it again.DJ Rahsaan plays the freshest Afro-Caribbean cuts in the downstairs lounge of the Arts Garage (upstairs is house music, courtesy of Therapy Saturdays), and also our resident taina/’hostess-con-el-most-est’ Maggie will be in the house to get you & your friends situated. We will be here ’til the end of 2009, so come get your life. Bring your flag and your dancing shoes! Plenty of parking, drink specials, and a late night food menu!
The Afrotaino Lounge
Every Saturday Night ’til 2010
Doors 10PM
21 & over/ID Req’d
$10 Admission
The Arts Garage
1533 Ridge Ave. (right off of Broad & Fairmount Sts.)
Philadelphia
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11.4.09. Wednesday/miercoles: BEMBE WEDNESDAYS
Starting next week, Afrotaino Productions is back with a weekly celebration @ the Arts Garage, so appropriately-titled Bembe Wednesdays. Need to break a sweat on the dancefloor before going into the office the next day? Here’s your chance to relax, relate, and release that midweek tension to DJ Rahsaan’s selections. This will be a true ‘industry night’ as well, with record release/listening parties, promo giveaways, special events, and more. Stay tuned, as we have muchas sorpresas in store for this night. (Also check out the other Arts Garage parties w/ DJs Mike Nyce, Kenny Meez of Federation Sound, Sean Jodi Diaz, and more..)
Bembe Wednesdays
Every Wednesday
Doors 9PM
21 & over/ID Req’d
$5/Free Admission for RSVP Guestlist!
The Arts Garage
1533 Ridge Ave. (right off of Broad & Fairmount Sts.)
Philadelphia
———————————————————————–Coming soon: New Muslim Cool Philadelphia Premiere! Bombazos! Pre-Turkey Day Party!!!
What’s Playing in the Afrotaino Office:
-Del Patio/Black Point ”Watagatapitusberry” (original and the remix with Pitbull & Lil’ John) – INSANE!!! Baltimore Club meets Washington Heights!
-EA Flow “Quitipon” – Puerto Rican underground MC battle champ meets Danny Fornaris!
-Snoop Dogg “That’s the Homie” – the latest monster track off of Snoop’s new LP! The beats are bigger than life!
-Busta Rhymes & Beenie Man “Jiggle” – Instant Dancehall Classic! Beware of the Bass!
-Tito Swing ft. Don Omar “El Cafe Remix” – a tongue-in-cheek re-tweaking of a Wilfrido Vargas classic! Dale mambo!
-PhillyBloco “Could you be loved?” – A super samba-fied cover of Bob Marley & the Wailers’ reggae anthem!
-Hello Seahorse! – The entire album is deliciously perfect!
-Domenic Marte “Que importa mi amiga” – The Bostonian bachatero does it again. Melodies that can’t escape your head
-Bomba Estereo “Feelin’” – The Colombian stereo bomb explodes again with their latest single!
Shouts: Joey B., Juanderful, Alex Cuba and team; Pavel Nunez; BMI; Brownout!;Nacional; Ola@AG; the Tastytreats/Candyland crew; Kenny Meez; UPENN; GRG-MGMT; Todd Damon; Heather Raquel Phillips; Betsy C.; M.A.P.P.; Kimmel Ctr; World Cafe Live; Noel Z.; Justin215Hiphop; our extended family en Bayamon, San Juan, Santurce, Loiza, PR; Cristian-Ashlee Ent.; Frankie & Nancy; Venissa S. (Nominated for Best Jazz Vocalist!); and the rest of you whom we forgot at the moment….We would shout out the haters…pero we don’t have any! hahaha…
Macaracachimbo, we out!
Suave,
Rahsaan Lucas
Marangeli Mejia-Rabell
Partners,
Afrotaino Productions
www.myspace.com/afrotainoproductions
www.facebook.com/afrotainoproductions
afrotainoprod@gmail.com
*Also check out our vision for a better future: www.myspace.com/thesiembraproject
Need visibility & media exposure for your artists/label/brand?
Want multicultural marketing solutions for your corporation/community organization/small business?
Interested in sponsorship/collaborative opportunities?
Need talent for your festival/nightclub/campaign?
Trying to find the heartbeat of a market, regional/nationwide?
Afrotaino Productions is your answer.
A tiny excerpt from Hector Lavoe’s “Rompe Saraguey”.
Hello there guys, gals, and ghosts…
The aforementioned song pretty much kicks off this newsletter, since the ‘veil’ between this world & the next is at its thinnest over the next few days. We are two days away from Halloween, the infamous annual phenomenon where both the living and the dead show up to haunt us, show off their ‘costumes’, honor the deceased and eat candy. Hopefully there’s some room for a party, because that’s what we are about. Here’s what we @ Afrotaino Productions have lined up for YOU:
———————————————————————————————————-
10.29.09. Thursday/jueves: MUNDIAL: A NIGHT OF FUNKY WORLD SOUNDS!
Afrotaino Productions & Garces Restaurant Group invite you to MUNDIAL, a new weekly dance party in the plush, lavishly-decorated lounge below Chifa Restaurant (the Chinese-Peruvian cuisine conception of Chef Jose Garces). Chef Garces is busy kicking ass on this season’s American Iron Chef (on the Food Network! Check your local listings), and DJs Juanderfull, Joey Blanco, & Rahsaan are rocking this funky joint with rumba, reggae, latin alternative/electro-rockero, cumbia, house, funk, hiphop, samba, mambo, afrobeat, bhangra, disco, even jazz! Last week was tropical hot, and the streets are talking – this is definitely a legendary party in the making!
MUNDIAL
Every Thursday
Free Admission
Drink specials & Late Night Food Menu
Music starts 10PM
21 and over/ID Required
Chifa Lounge
(downstairs Chifa Restaurant)
707 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia
———————————————————————–
10.31.09. Saturday/sabado: PHILLYBLOCO HALLOWEEN SAMBA DANCE PARTY!
Designed after the drum-wielding, samba-playing street bands (blocos) of Rio de Janeiro, PhillyBloco is pure rhythm, infectious grooviness, laced with that good ole’ Philly-style party attitude. You will not be able to stand still for one moment as the women and men of PhillyBloco sway, sing, & enchant their audiences with their samba/reggae/funk fusion sounds. This Saturday, the group will beat out their batacudas in true Carnaval fashion once again at World Cafe Live. So grab a costume, and grab a friend!
PHILLYBLOCO HALLOWEEN SAMBA DANCE PARTY
Saturday, Oct. 31st, 2009
Doors 8PM
$15 Admission
Tickets available thru: www.worldcafelive.com
*We strongly encourage you to purchase your tickets in advance, as this show may sell out*
World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut St.
Philadelphia
———————————————————————–
10.31.09. Saturday/sabado: THE AFROTAINO LOUNGE!
Last week, we kicked off our new dance party and dance is what we did! We are back this Saturday (after the PhillyBloco show) to do it again.DJ Rahsaan plays the freshest Afro-Caribbean cuts in the downstairs lounge of the Arts Garage (upstairs is house music, courtesy of Therapy Saturdays), and also our resident taina/’hostess-con-el-most-est’ Maggie will be in the house to get you & your friends situated. We will be here ’til the end of 2009, so come get your life. Bring your flag and your dancing shoes! Plenty of parking, drink specials, and a late night food menu!
The Afrotaino Lounge
Every Saturday Night ’til 2010
Doors 10PM
21 & over/ID Req’d
$10 Admission
The Arts Garage
1533 Ridge Ave. (right off of Broad & Fairmount Sts.)
Philadelphia
———————————————————————–
11.4.09. Wednesday/miercoles: BEMBE WEDNESDAYS
Starting next week, Afrotaino Productions is back with a weekly celebration @ the Arts Garage, so appropriately-titled Bembe Wednesdays. Need to break a sweat on the dancefloor before going into the office the next day? Here’s your chance to relax, relate, and release that midweek tension to DJ Rahsaan’s selections. This will be a true ‘industry night’ as well, with record release/listening parties, promo giveaways, special events, and more. Stay tuned, as we have muchas sorpresas in store for this night. (Also check out the other Arts Garage parties w/ DJs Mike Nyce, Kenny Meez of Federation Sound, Sean Jodi Diaz, and more..)
Bembe Wednesdays
Every Wednesday
Doors 9PM
21 & over/ID Req’d
$5/Free Admission for RSVP Guestlist!
The Arts Garage
1533 Ridge Ave. (right off of Broad & Fairmount Sts.)
Philadelphia
———————————————————————–Coming soon: New Muslim Cool Philadelphia Premiere! Bombazos! Pre-Turkey Day Party!!!
What’s Playing in the Afrotaino Office:
-Del Patio/Black Point ”Watagatapitusberry” (original and the remix with Pitbull & Lil’ John) – INSANE!!! Baltimore Club meets Washington Heights!
-EA Flow “Quitipon” – Puerto Rican underground MC battle champ meets Danny Fornaris!
-Snoop Dogg “That’s the Homie” – the latest monster track off of Snoop’s new LP! The beats are bigger than life!
-Busta Rhymes & Beenie Man “Jiggle” – Instant Dancehall Classic! Beware of the Bass!
-Tito Swing ft. Don Omar “El Cafe Remix” – a tongue-in-cheek re-tweaking of a Wilfrido Vargas classic! Dale mambo!
-PhillyBloco “Could you be loved?” – A super samba-fied cover of Bob Marley & the Wailers’ reggae anthem!
-Hello Seahorse! – The entire album is deliciously perfect!
-Domenic Marte “Que importa mi amiga” – The Bostonian bachatero does it again. Melodies that can’t escape your head
-Bomba Estereo “Feelin’” – The Colombian stereo bomb explodes again with their latest single!
Shouts: Joey B., Juanderful, Alex Cuba and team; Pavel Nunez; BMI; Brownout!;Nacional; Ola@AG; the Tastytreats/Candyland crew; Kenny Meez; UPENN; GRG-MGMT; Todd Damon; Heather Raquel Phillips; Betsy C.; M.A.P.P.; Kimmel Ctr; World Cafe Live; Noel Z.; Justin215Hiphop; our extended family en Bayamon, San Juan, Santurce, Loiza, PR; Cristian-Ashlee Ent.; Frankie & Nancy; Venissa S. (Nominated for Best Jazz Vocalist!); and the rest of you whom we forgot at the moment….We would shout out the haters…pero we don’t have any! hahaha…
Macaracachimbo, we out!
Suave,
Rahsaan Lucas
Marangeli Mejia-Rabell
Partners,
Afrotaino Productions
www.myspace.com/afrotainoproductions
www.facebook.com/afrotainoproductions
afrotainoprod@gmail.com
*Also check out our vision for a better future: www.myspace.com/thesiembraproject
Need visibility & media exposure for your artists/label/brand?
Want multicultural marketing solutions for your corporation/community organization/small business?
Interested in sponsorship/collaborative opportunities?
Need talent for your festival/nightclub/campaign?
Trying to find the heartbeat of a market, regional/nationwide?
Afrotaino Productions is your answer.
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