Dancing With the Giordano Stars 9/30/10

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LIVE - One Night Only! Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show. Hosted by Vince Vaughn & Kevin James. Featuring Stand Up Comics Richie Minervini, Steve Byrne & Bill Burr (Audio & Video recording devices prohibited). Doors open at 7:30 pm.
VIP section is on the dance floor. GA seating is on a first-come/first-served basis.

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BAND FROM TV!

Hollywood Rocks Chicago:

Watch Us Play for a Cure! Your favorite television stars perform your favorite songs, as Band From TV comes to town to benefit the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago's mission to provide support to 100,000 people living with seizures in the Chicago area. Television favorites Greg Grunberg and Adrian Pasdar of HEROES, Hugh Laurie and Jesse Spencer of HOUSE, James Denton of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, Bob Guiney of THE BACHELOR, Scott Grimes of ER, and other special guests rock the Vic Theater. One night only. Opening for Band From TV will be local Chicago favorite "South of 80".

Latin Street Salsa Congreso June 26, 2010

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Friday, May 21, From Cuba: Manolito y su Trabuco

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Miss Continental Plus and Elite this Sunday/Monday

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Best of luck to ALL the contestants! See you at Park West, doors at 6:00 p.m. Sunday and 7:00 p.m. MondayBUY TICKETS

The Abolition of Slavery Concert presented by the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center

Sat, Mar 20, 2010 7:00 PM
Park West
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For more information, visit www.srbcc.org

Featuring Los Pleneritos Del Son, directly from Puerto Rico!

Know your Plena:

Plena is a narrative song from the coastal regions of Puerto Rico. Its origins have been various claimed as far back as 1875 and as late as 1920. As rural farmers moved to San Juan and other cities, they brought plena with them and eventually added horns and improvised call and response vocals. Lyrics generally deal with stories or current events, though some are light-hearted or humorous. Manuel A. Jiménez, or El Canario, is the most highly celebrated of the original plena performers.

In the 1940s and 50s, artists like Cesar Concepción and Mon Rivera made plena slicker and made some hits internationally, but the music's popularity sunk drastically by the mid-1960s.

Plena's popularity blossomed in the 1990s, and the revival has survived and influenced foreign genres from Jamaica, Cuba, Brazil and other Latin and Caribbean countries. Artists like Willie Colón united plena and bomba with salsa music to great critical acclaim and popularity, while other important bands of this revival include Plena Libre (long-time leaders of the genre) and Plenealo.