Ritmos Raros: Se Levanta El Caribe | Centroamérica Benefit

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Ritmos Raros: Se Levanta El Caribe | Centroamérica Benefit

$5 or more / 21+

Ritmos Raros: Se Levanta El Caribe | Centroamérica / Lifts up The Caribbean | Central America: Dancefloor Donation Party!

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Irma, Nate, and Maria there are still many people in the Caribbean and Central America that need help including but not limited to: Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos: Antigua and Barbuda, St Martin, Anguilla and St Barts, US and British Virgin Islands, Nicaragua, Belize, Dominica (Dominique), and Honduras.

$5 entry will go towards donations to the various organizations listed below.

If your able to donate more than $5.00 please do. Your gift will go directly to support the hard hit afro, latin, indigenous communities throughout the Caribbean and Central America.

Show your love for these beautiful Caribbean and Central America countries / territories by coming out to donate and dance to plena, salsa, merengue, cumbia, cadencelypso, kompa, rara, son montuno, rumba, guaracha and more….

Your favorite Ritmos Raros contributors will be spinning vintage tropical music on vinyl all night long.

Leon City Sounds (Claudia and Charles Lawrence), Marcello Bentine, Neal Becton (Som Records), and Sir Ramases (Afro Ritmo
Records)

Donation Sites if you haven’t already donated.. Send us message if you know of any more. We will add them on to the list. THANKS!!

Email: afro.ritmo.records@gmail.com
Att: RRCC Fundraiser

Puerto Rico
http://unidosporpuertorico.com/en/
https://www.generosity.com/emergencies-fundraising/maria-irma-puerto-rico-real-time-recovery-fund

Texas, Louisana, Puerto Rico
https://americanblackcross.org/

Caribbean and Latin America
https://hispanicfederation.org/donate

Dominican Republic
http://ywamcaribbean.org/dominican-republic-hurricane-relief/

Haiti
http://flyinghighforhaiti.com/

Dominca
http://dominicarelief.org/

Virgin Islands
http://www.cfvi.net/donate/hurricanerelief.php

Turks and Caicos
https://www.youcaring.com/nonprofitorganizationshelpingthepeopleoftci-943562

Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras
https://amigosofcostarica.org/product/help-victims-tropical-storm-nate/

Cuba
http://cubaone.org/irma-relief/

Antigua and Barbuda
http://abredcross.org/disaster/

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Vintage Vinyl “Ritmos Raros”
A 50’s-80s Afro Indian Latin Carib Arab Brazil Tropical Dancefloor Party – http://www.facebook.com/ritmosrarosdc

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León City Sounds are two Selectors from Washington DC and Lima, Peru with a lots of love for Roots Reggae, Dub, Ska, Cumbia, Chicha and Fusion

Leon City Sounds are Claudia A. Zevallos and Charles Lawrence
facebook.com/leoncitysounds
soundcloud.com/leoncitysounds

Marcello Bentine was born in the early 70s with Brazilian roots and Brazilian music in his blood. Raised between Miami and Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian records his family regularly played at home were the soundtrack to his childhood. He began spinning those same records at underground parties and clubs in Miami and Rio in the late 90s. Since then he has become an avid vinyl collector of Brazilian music, along with other various “world music” genres. Recently, Marcello, Mr. Brown, DJ Le Spam, Erick Paredes, and DJ Kumi formed the DJ collective know as “Miami Is An Island”, which is a Miami based party focusing on rare “island music” strictly for the dance floor. Over the years Marcello has thrown several “Classic Brazilian” inspired parties around the world, with such DJs/producers as Marcelinho Da Lua/Mustafa do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro), Sunlightsquare (London), Nickodemus/Greg Caz (NYC), and DJ Bronco (Paris). In 2015 Marcello relocated to Washington DC and has been a regular selector for Ritmos Raros, DC’s best rare-vinyl-only dance party lead by Sir Ramases.

Interview with Marcello Bentine- http://www.rhythmfoundation.com/2014/09/local-spotlight-marcello-bentine/

http://backofhouse.morganshotelgroup.com/culture/the-excavators-spotlighting-two-mondrian-djs-le-spam-and-marcello-bentine-who-continue-to-dig-for-the-love-of-vinyl

Marcello’s mixes: https://soundcloud.com/marcellobentine

DJ Neville C aka Neal Becton is the owner of a tropical vinyl record store called Som Records. Located at 1843 14th Street NW. It is home to the best new and used records releases from around the globe.

A Florida native, Neal Becton was raised in Atlanta, GA and is a proud graduate of the University of Georgia. Neal started DJing in 1990 while maintaining careers in hotel management and journalism. He gave his life over completely to vinyl when he opened his own record store in 2003. His personal collection is formidable, to say the least; he currently owns more than 12,000 13,000 14,000 a bazillion records. With those kinds of deep crates, no style of music is beyond his grasp.

Neal got his start at Washington DC’s famous State of the Union club in the early 90’s. He hosted “Around the World in 80 Beats” on XM Satellite Radio for over two years. He has DJed in Madrid, Auckland, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York at that great house party you went to in Mount Pleasant back in ’95. Venues played include the 9:30 Club, Nation, Metro Cafe, Black Cat Club, State of the Union, Science Club, The Bayou, Zanzibar, Bossa, Taste of DC and many more.

Som Records
somrecordsdc.com
facebook.com/somrecordsdc

Sir-Ramases Kofi is the founder of the non-profit Afro Ritmo Records Research Collective which archives, collects, releases, and spreads awareness about the world’s rarest music on the vinyl format. With six members in total each hailing from their distinct tropical homelands, this group scours the earth looking for lost and forgotten musical treasures. Afro Ritmo’s second release: “Improvisation of Johnny Gomez: Trinidad Dance Band Series Vol.2”, showcases the tenor saxophonist’s colorful mastery of the calypso genre

Afro Ritmo Records
facebook.com/afroritmorecords
soundcloud.com/afroritmo
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About Vintage Vinyl “Ritmos Raros”

Ritmos Raros is a moving but never ending nostalgic tropical vinyl dancefloor party dedicated to the rare and normally unheard rhythms of Africa, Latin America, India, Caribbean, Brazilian, and the Arab variety. Touching upon the many genres we get together and try our very best to dance to different rhythms of each other culture. We are looking for members who love dancing and learning about obscure music that may have not achieved popularity to due to a myriad of adverse circumstances. Join us if your interested in being exposed to sounds you might not hear otherwise outside of the countries of origin. Expect the unexpected: Hybrid transactions, unlikely collaborations / combinations, moods in a minor key, blood, sweat, and tears all wrapped up in its aural form strictly for your educational and spiritual enrichment.

Vintage Vinyl / Ritmos Raros is the official party of Afro Ritmo Records.

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December 09 2017

Details

Start: December 9, 2017 @ 11:00 pm
End: December 10, 2017 @ 3:00 am
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Venue

Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe

2477-2475 18th St NW
Washington, DC 20009 United States

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