Salsabration -- Showcasing Latino Music, Dance and Song

The Latino Student Union at Utah State University hosts a concert, followed by a dance, to display native Latino music through instrumentalists, musicians and USU dancers.

 

The cultural showcase is presented in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom at USU, Friday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. Tickets are available in the TSC Card Office, Room 212, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 per person, $25 for a group of six and $2 for a ticket to the dance only. Tickets are also available at Rita’s Market and La Rancheria. 

 

Entertainment includes Los Hermanos de los Andes, an instrumental group performing traditional Peruvian music. Their instruments, including pipes and drums, date back to Incan civilization. Mariachi Zavala, singing traditional folk music, will also perform. Zavala’s performance will celebrate Mexico’s 200th anniversary of its independence through song. Dancing salsa, the USU ballroom dance team, will add to the cultural event, as well as USU’s Folkorico dancers, who will be performing Latin cultural dances.

 

A dance follows the concert in the Taggart Student International/Sunburst Lounge from 9 p.m. to midnight.  

 

The Latino Student Union promotes Latin cultural awareness at USU and throughout the community. Along with promoting awareness, it provides support to other student and community entities.

 

Those attending can receive $1 off the concert, or just the dance, with a canned food donation. The food drive supports the USU Student Food Pantry Program. (The discount excludes group ticket purchase.)

 

For more information about Salsabration, call Sam Curley, LSU advisor, (435) 797-1765 or e-mail, sam.curley@usu.edu.

 

Contact: LSU Advisor Sam Curley, (435) 797-1765, sam.curley@usu.edu

Writer: Kayla Hall, (435)797-1350, Kayla.hall@usu.edu