The recent salsa night at the Regent was much better. No fights like the
last salsa night, so it ended very nicely for every salsa aficionado who
came to the Regent on September 7.
Over 20 members of my Daniels Hall dormitory went in carpools to the
Regent--including me and the great salsa fanatic Rajiv Maheswaran, one of
the RAs at the hall.
I saw my salsa dancemates I've seen before--including those who finished
their work at the U. of I. campus and went on to other endeavors,
like former U. of I.
student Ruben Aveledo, and former U. of I. staff member Ece Karatan. The
salsa ladies who can really spin, Joanna Olewicz and Tanya Wolf, were
there to.
Songs included "Cali Pachanguero" (Grupo Niche) and "Vamonos Pa'l Monte"
(Eddie Palmieri). I like the latter song, because Eddie Palmieri's
'hermanon' ("big brother"), Charlie Palmieri, was jamming on the organ in
the song. (Often, you don't hear the organ in salsa songs except for those
of Santana and his band in the 1970s.)
And as the salsa dance started to wind down...
Dario Farias brought down the dance house with "Octavo Dia" (or "Eighth
Day"), which is usually sung by Shakira. It was the first of the so-called
techno-merengues to embrace music from the Middle East. Shakira herself
did that same song at the first Latin Grammy Awards on CBS (on TV) last
year in September. You can perhaps do some belly dancing to the song.
This was why I highly adore dancing salsa at the Regent for the last six
years.
Charles Smith
Salsa dance enthusiast and aficionado
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