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Orquesta La 33
Orquesta La 33 (commonly La-33) is a Colombian salsa music band. The collective was founded in Bogotá in 2001 by brothers Sergio and Santiago Mejía. Evening Chronicle (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), ''A Passion for the Keyboard'' 10 July 2009 The name is taken from the city's Calle 33, in Teusaquillo, the 13th locality of Bogotá, where the band first rehearsed. Description The band interprets a salsa dura style music with influences of mambo, jazz and pasodoble. The members of the band saved money from performances in bars in Bogotá to release their first album in 2004. La-33 has performed at many international venues, among others at the popular Sziget Festival in Budapest. In 2016, the band released their fifth album, celebrating 15 years of activity; ''Caliente''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sziget Festival
The Sziget Festival ( hu, Sziget Fesztivál, ; "Sziget" for "Island") is one of the largest Music festival, music and cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August in northern Budapest, Hungary, on Óbuda Island, Óbudai-sziget ("Old Buda Island"), a leafy 108-hectare (266-acre) island on the Danube. More than 1,000 performances take place each year. The week-long festival has grown from a relatively low-profile student event in 1993 to become one of the prominent European rock festivals, with about half of all visitors coming from outside Hungary, especially from Western Europe. It also has a dedicated "party train" service (with resident DJs) that transports festival-goers from all over Europe. The second event (1994), labelled ''Eurowoodstock'', was headlined by performers from the original Woodstock festival. By 1997, total attendance surpassed the 250,000 mark, and by 2016 reached the 440,000 mark. In 2019 that record was once broken when 565,000 visitors attended t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
