Twelve scholarships were offered to inner city and at-risk youth from the Los Angeles area to attend a 4-day Salsa Music Seminar, May 22 - 25th. Working side-by-side with world-renown
artists, students turn musical notes into sizzling Salsa songs. Selected seminar students will perform in the concert.
9:00 pm
Hollywood Park Casino
3883 W. Century Boulevard in Inglewood
(Concert stage is in the outside tents)
Whether they are tapping on the congas, zipping the guiro, shaking the maracas or beating on the drums, young musicians will steal the show at the 8th Annual West Coast Salsa
Congress.
As thousands of Salsa Music enthusiasts dance to their rhythms, students and instructors will perform the hottest Salsa tunes which they learned just days before at the 3rd Annual Salsa
Music Seminar.
Grammy Award winner, Oscar Hernandez, is the musical director of the Musician Seminar Band. Other instructors include members of the Grammy Award winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra (Pablo
"Chino" Nunez, John Walsh, Ray De La Paz, and Willy Torres) and well-known artists including Johnny Polanco, Eddie Resto, Artie Webb, and Joey De Leon.
Baile De Los Niños is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization that empowers inner city and at-risk youth through music and dance.