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. 28Feb2019 ·
Looking forward to the Bailando Carnival Party at Drift Southsea tonight after the bachata lesson starting at 8:30pm. See you around 10:30 for salsa dancing upstairs to music by a surprise guest DJ. Click the link below for more information about this DALE Afro Latin Entertainment event..
www.wake.co.uk/events
Philip Wake Bit of a short mystery tour tonight – not many people dancing upstairs so as midnight approached, having had just a few dances, one with a total beginner who followed me very well and two with a salsera I had danced with before, I decided to get doner & chips on the way home and watch a TV film! 🙂