John Weyl ‘Panama Sessions’ Self-released johnweylmusic.com John Weyl is a talented singer-guitarist and leader of the local blues trio Deep Blue Band. Influenced by the jazz and Latin music he heard while playing solo gigs in Panama every winter, Weyl decided to make an instrumental guitar album. Joined by bassist Ted Johansen, drummer Eric Metzgar, […]
Latin music
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Latin music station coming to Rochester
Ibero-American Action League will launch the first 24-hour Latino-operated radio station in Upstate New York. WEPL 97.1 FM will make its first Spanish language broadcast sometime in November, says Gladys Pedraza Burgos, Ibero’s COO. WEPL’s format will lean heavily on Latin Tropical – salsa, merengue, bachata — and Latin pop to reflect the listening interests […]
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Call of the congas
None of the women in the little club are standing still. Short-skirted and spike-heeled, they risk spilling Sangria as they hip-sway to the relentless Latin beat. Horns wail. Congas throb. Couples dance. Everybody is touching somebody. Tapas, a small club in the St. Paul Quarter, is hot and intimate, its dance floor swelling to capacity, […]
