Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Salsa Celtica debuts in Idaho

Unique world music ensemble to perform in Hailey

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By SABINA DANA PLASSE
Express Staff Writer

The 11-man band Salsa Celtica will perform at Hailey’s Hop Porter Park on Saturday, July 18. Photo by

A summer's night in Hailey's Hop Porter Park with Salsa Celtica might just make everyone's troubles melt away. Making its Idaho debut, Salsa Celtica, an 11-man band, combines traditional Irish and Scottish music with and Afro-Cuban sounds.

The Scottish band spent years perfecting its sounds in the pubs and clubs of Scotland and headed off to Havana, Cuba, to hang out with salsa groups and absorb the Afro-Cuban world. The result was a unique fusing of Latin and Celtic sound in the band's breakthrough album "El Agua De La Vida" in 2003.

For 10 years the group has been a hit at major Celtic, jazz, world music and salsa festivals. Their albums have topped the New York and Los Angeles salsa charts as well as the European world music charts, and the band has been nominated for folk music awards and appeared in a feature film.

Salsa Celtica will make its Idaho debut on Saturday, July 18, at Hop Porter Park in Hailey as part of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts Summer Concert Series. Tickets are $20, $5 for kids 12 and under.

To purchase tickets, go to sunvalleycenter.org, call 726-9491 or stop by The Center in Ketchum. Gates open at 6 p.m. and the music starts at 7 p.m.

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Bring picnics or buy food and beverages (beer, wine, water, sodas) from local vendors onsite. Leave high-backed chairs and pets at home, please.

Sabina Dana Plasse: splasse@mtexpress.com