The Drift Bar in Southsea is the venue for Bailando every Thursday run by DALE Afro Latin Entertainment from 10pm to 3am. When I arrive around 10:30pm for the salsa dancing upstairs there are usually plenty of people who attended the earlier bachata lessons from 8:30 to 10pm staying on for an hour or so to practice to bachata music. Around 11pm the salsa music begins and people start arriving from downstairs particularly when it get crowded. Members of The Portsmouth University Salsa Club usually arrive around 11pm.
Recently salsa tracks have started earlier than 11pm and played more often which is most welcome to those of us who prefer the real thing! 😉
Sometimes there are not so many staying on from the earlier bachata lesson.
Sometimes many ladies come up later for a dance or two.
Sometimes the room empties around 12:30 and sometime people stay until much later.
This means the event is a bit of a mystery tour which makes it exciting whatever happens! It used to be a free mystery tour before 11pm – £2 after but now it costs £2 from 10pm onwards. It’s still good value for money though!
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There’s plenty of parking round the back in the Ashby Place car park.
More details may be seen on the facebook page Dale Afro Latin Entertainment.
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Philip Wake is feeling excited with Hazel Ashleen Squibb and DJunior Antonio Spencer.
Looking forward to salsa upstairs at Drift Southsea tonight around 10:30pm after the bachata lessons at 8pm have finished with DALE Afro Latin Entertainment celebrating Valentines Day. There will be bachata music until 11pm and then salsa music will be added to the mix – see my Salsa Calendar for more details by clicking on the link below!
www.wake.co.uk/events
Shared at Salsa Romantica: Like Vera Jozan, Ana Maria Martinez Alvarez
Philip Wake 2 good salsa dances with beginners who followed me really well, another with a beginner who decided to lead some turns to me before I turned her, an energetic one with an experienced salsera and then an awesome salsa dance with Hazel. I like to finish with the best dance of the night so that’s what I did! A most enjoyable Valentine mystery tour! 🙂 ❤️ Like: Hazel