Standing backstage on Friday night during the fifth annual West Coast Salsa Congress at the Hollywood Park Casino, 74-year-old Ray Barretto looked like a gentle, unassuming grandfather figure. And yet ...

Kids and conga were right on beat Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Conga Kids spring Dance Championship moved its way through downtown’s Microsoft Square, where Conga Kids danced away using their ...

A true jazz giant, Ray Barretto, who died Friday at 76 in New Jersey, made his name playing conga drums on jazz and salsa records since the late 1950s. Today, he will be buried at Riverside Memorial ...

8:49 a.m. March 29, 2024: A previous version of this story said that singer-songwriter Blessd performed at the event. He did not. The article also said that the Conga Kids program has served 50,000 ...

At the new Conga Room -- call it Version 2.0 -- the guiding philosophy seems to be the opposite of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s famous dictum that “less is more.” At the revamped, relocated incarnation ...

Jason Derulo really got the crowd moving for the Saturday Night Takeaway End of the Show Show as he got the Florida holidaymakers to conga throughout Universal Orlando Resort. But it was Dec Donelly, ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- At Dr. Owen Knox Elementary in Los Angeles, salsa is in full swing with the "Conga Kids" program. "You learn a lot of new dances and you get a lot of exercise," said fifth-grader ...

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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X At the very beginning of the evening on the New Haven Green on Friday night, percussionist Nino ...

So there's dancing—and there's dancing. As for the latter, you can now point your hips toward The Conga Room, a new super-sized version of the famed original Latin club. You'll find it in the L.A.