vanvanintoronto.com

WELCOME TO THE WEBSITE FOR LOS VAN VAN IN TORONTO

Los Van Van, the biggest name in the history of Cuban dance bands came to Toronto for one night only on Saturday December 9th 2006 at Kool Haus (in the Guvernment)

El Tren de la Salsa

The audience came from all over North America : visitors from Boston, San Francisco, Albany, Buffalo, Seattle and Edmonton , Miami, Washington DC.

INFO vanvanintoronto@yahoo.ca

THERE were over 2000 people who were at this show. Los Van Van played for almost three hours . We all had a great time! Enjoy the website , videos ..reviews ..Come to MANOLITO SIMONET Y Su TRABUCO
JUNE 1 2007  www.manolitointoronto.com
SEE YOU NEXT TIME!

PUPY Y LOS QUE SON SON SATURDAY MAY 24 2008

CESAR " PUPY " PEDROSO  founding member of Los Van Van and composer of countless of their hits songs will be in Toronto with his 16 piece band Saturday May 24th 2008 at the OPERA HOUSE in TORONTO 735 Queen street East Toronto Canada PUPY PEDROSO Y LOS QUE SON SON.
For all information keep checking our sister site www.CUBAinTORONTO.COM

Tickets will go on sale by Friday March 15th at www.ticketbreak.com   www.thtickets.com and at several outlets.

We are away at the fantastic Cubamemucho congress in Munich where Los Van Van will be performing Friday night . We will be blogging from over there and are excited about being reunited with our friends from Los Van van and all of their fans.

MANOLITO SIMONET Y SU TRABUCO IN TORONTO JUNE 1 2007

WWW.MANOLITOINTORONTO.COM

Greetings all and welcome to the Manolito in Toronto weblog. Feel free to leave a comment, drop us an email or give us a phone call.

Here's the deal

MANOLITO SIMONET Y SU TRABUCO is making his first appearance ever in Toronto on Friday June 1 2007 at Six Degrees Nightclub (formerly called Berlins) at  2335 Yonge St in the Yonge and Eglinton area of town.

We will open the doors at 8pm, we will get Manolito on stage about 10:30pm. Music before and after will be provided by DJ Carlitos (SalsaTimba y Reggaeton) Manolito's band is the complete 18 piece Cuban orchestra comprised of strings and brass, percussion, keyboards, bass and three lead singers.

For live latin music to dance to it does not get any better than this.

You can get an idea of the sound from Manolito's Myspace page.

NOTE to dancers: For those who are familiar with Berlin's on a Tuesday we will clear the dancefloor of sofas and chairs and extend the stage out so the whole bottom floor should be one big dance floor.

NOTE to those concerned about the sound. We will be bringing in the major part of a whole new sound system in order to meets the needs of Manolito.

Here is all the pricing and ticket info

Earlybird Tickets available till May 6 online until they run out at stores. $35.00
Advance Tickets $40.00 will be available through a variety outlets - we will post the list soon.
There will be VIP Room & Service for a price  of $80.00
On Line Sales
www.THTickets.com (Earlybirds and VIPS)
www.TicketPro.ca (regular tickets $40)

Our info line is 416 836 2600

Our email is manolitointoronto@yahoo.com

This show is produced by Okokan with Billy Bryans Productions

Telmary singing Marilu with Mayito Los Van Van

CUBA IN TORONTO EVENTS

 

GO TO our new website WWW.CUBAinTORONTO.COM  for all the latest and breaking newa about all things Cuban and sort of Cuban happening in Toronto and beyond.

Please make sure to email us if you want us to post your event : cubaintoronto@yahoo.com

Upcoming in Toronto FRI FEB 23 TELMARY

Produced by Billy Bryans : come and see TELMARY  FRI FEB 23 at the Lula Lounge

Snjezana and Bianca 26/02/07

Los Van Van Live In Toronto

Shot by DJ Darkrum from San Francisco's Añejo Productions

Photos and More Photos

Juan Formell: More photos and a review from MagiaRadio.com

MC Osiel, more photos and review from SalsaTO.com

Mayito: more photos and review from the Live Music Report

Yani of Cafe Cubano and admirer: photos and a review from  Toronto Hispanos

A Billion Thankyou's

from Sophie Giraud, Juan Carlos Bulnes and Billy Bryans to

Georges Khayat of Untitled Art, Carlos Fernandez and John Long of Long & McQuade, Javier Rivera at Essencia Latina, DJ Gury Gury, Michelle, Tracy and Jose at Lula Lounge, Nubia at Babaalu's, Noe Perez, Vladmir Aranda, Terry Zaifman, Sarita Leyva, Oscar at The Guvernment, Mike at SalsaTO, Claudio Castro, Robin Easton, John and Suki of Re-Son-8, Betty Colon, Albena de Assis, Derek Andrews, Alicia, Dave Dacks, Rick and the Añejo crew, Mario Beauchanp 417 Bus line, Alyana and Anais, Lou at Cervejaria, Joanne Smale of Planet 3, Kwik Copy on College, Eddie at 5 Star.  Lainie Knox (camera) Ian Watson (photo) Suba nightclub Lou Vitkov Mimi and Lidja ; Miguel Delgado silver 4 U ; Alvarro 4 ur convenience;  Joe at Superlatin music ; Tefi at Bohemia ; Julio at Bolis;  Julie at university of Michigan ; university of Syracuse; Jenn Jonas at Despelote dance;  Peter (aka PUPY!) the dressing room king who got it all together ; Mimi (got dance team together) ; Marcelo Addax and Abdiel CIRV Ondas hispanas ; Julissa and Orestes Puentes VOCES LATINAS.

Again thanks to the sponsors  Juan Carranza ( a great man and lawyer) ; Nubia and Pilar from Babaluu with Papito and Abdiel  ; Lula Lounge and Alicia Kielik from intercontinental travel.

REMEMBERING CARLOS CUEVAS  we miss you..Juan Carlos spoke with him when we thought of presenting the show. He was so postive and helped us with invaluable suggestions .

To our friends....

Painters Of The Flag

There isn't a photo yet, but a special special special shout-out goes to

Steve Willetts
Ersidio Tamayo
Jeff Shouten

Ingrid Jurek production designer who put the team together. This was a beautiful gift.

for painting the huge Cuban flag that hung behind Los Van Van last night

Wow! Thanks Everybody

from magiaradio.com

Van Van In Toronto More Party Photos

 

Van Van In Toronto - The Night Before

 

 

Members of Los Van Van got to relax last night at a welcoming party for the band held at Lula Lounge. Photos by Sophie

Welcome To Toronto

Greetings all Vanvaneros from Rochester, Miami, Edmonton, Seattle, Boston, San Fran, etc etc welcome To Toronto. Dont worry - it will get warmer tomorrow.(Saturday's temperature will be above zero)

The party tonight (Friday) starts at Lula Lounge (1585 Dundas West of Dufferin) with Black Market and ends at Cervejaria (842 College St at Ossington - a $5.00 cab ride from Lula) with Son Ache featuring Alberto Alberto.

Billy will be dj'ing at Lula, Sophie and Juan Carlos will be at both places.

More VanVaninToronto on The Radio

ON CBC Radio One 10pm Local time tonight (Dec 7th) Billy Bryans is interviewed by The Arts Tonight's Eleanor Wachtel about Los Van Van, their appearance in Toronto and Montreal, and the Cuban music community of Canada.

Thanks to CBC producer Li Robbins for putting it all together.

And Billy thanks Sarita Leyva for the Afro-Cuban cultural lessons from the lyrics to 'Chapeando'.

"Van Van viene iré
Viene con Oro"

Coming To Toronto - Añejo Productions

This is the Casino Rueda video that includes Rick "DJ Darkrum" Washington from the legendary Bay area promotion and production company Añejo Productions.

Telmary

Telmary is an amazing rapper, poet and spoken word artist from Havana who has been visiting Toronto this year. She has just released a great CD on Bis Records called A Diario, on which appears a song called Marilú that she recorded with members of Los Van Van including Mayito.

She's in town that night, so we are hoping Telmary sits in with LVV, it would be pretty electric.

More over on Billy's blog

ON The Radio With David Dacks

At approx 7pm, Billy Bryans and Glenda DelMonte go visit David Dacks' The Abstract Index on CIUT 89.5 FM to discuss Los Van Van, New Cuban Generation and other topics of interest.

David blogs at www.abstractindex.blogspot.com and writes for Exclaim Magazine.

Update: David blogs the upcoming interview.

The TimPop Video From Los Van Van

The Agua Video

  

Watch till the end to see the DESPELOTE