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Pachanga Latino Music Festival
Pachanga Presents is the first Latin-themed music, cultural arts and food festival originated in Austin, Texas, United States. It is a one-day festival that showcases Hispanic and Latino Americans, Latino-created music, food, and works of art and their contributions to American culture. The inaugural Pachanga Festival was held on May 9, 2008 at Waterloo Park in Austin, Texas and attracted an estimated 2,000 visitors. It featured 20 musicians in genres ranging from rock and alternative to tejano, cumbia, folklorico, and reggaeton. It also showcased arts and crafts from Latino artists as well as social and political activist areas. Activities Pachanga provides an interactive area for children that features hands-on cultural activities for them to participate in. Dance lessons, in Latin-based styles like Salsa, are available. Music workshops and artist appearances are available to reach out to Austin's network of musicians, bands and other individuals involved in the music scene. ...
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Pachanga is a music genre, genre of music which is described as a mixture of son montuno and merengue music, merengue and has an accompanying signature style of dance. This type of music has a festive, lively style and is marked by jocular, mischievous lyrics. Pachanga originated in Cuba in the 1950s and played an important role in the evolution of List of Caribbean music genres, Caribbean style music as it is today. Considered a prominent contributor to the eventual rise of Salsa music, salsa, Pachanga itself is an offshoot of Charanga style music. Very similar in sound to Cha-cha-cha (dance), Cha-Cha but with a notably stronger down-beat, Pachanga once experienced massive popularity all across the Caribbean and was brought to the United States by Cuban immigrants post World War II. This led to an explosion of Pachanga music in Cuban music clubs that influenced Latin culture in the United States for decades to come. Music Charanga (Cuba), Charanga is a type of traditional en ...
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