For the best salsa band in NJ check out Grupo Corazon!

NJ SALSA BAND! Grupo Corazon, Ariel’s premiere salsa band in NJ, can provide the guests of your wedding or special event with exciting salsa music for your New Jersey wedding reception, cocktail hour or dinner party. Our NJ salsa band has an extensive song list and can play selections from many Latin music styles such as salsa, merengue, bolero, and son cubano. Grupo Corazon consistently performs its wedding music with unparalleled passion, precision, and skill. Grupo Corazon has played live music in locations all over the tri-state area including New York, New Jersey, Long Island, Connecticut, Manhattan, NJ, NY, CT, NYC and beyond. Brief history of Salsa Music and Salsa Bands Salsa as a dance genre has its roots in New York City and Puerto Rico and is based on dance styles mixing Cuban and Puerto Rican elements. Salsa means ‘sauce’ and it’s not hard to see why the food, music, and dance share the same term - all are spicy, upbeat, and irresistible. The style played by salsa bands came to being in the 1960s and 70s as a hybrid musical style. It is heavily derived from Cuban son music, and often fuses rhythms of West Africa with melodies and harmonies from Iberia. What instruments comprise a New Jersey salsa music ensemble? A NJ salsa band will typically include a combination of vocals, percussion instruments, bass, piano, and brass instruments. A percussionist could have a wide array of salsa music instruments, everything from bongos, to congas, cymbals, cowbells, woodblocks, claves, maracas, and guiros. Why does salsa music make wedding guests want to dance? The key to salsa music is that multiple interlocking rhythms will play at the same time. The brass ‘punches’ and accents by the vocalist are governed by the clave rhythm which manifests as either 2+3 or 3+2 beat pattern. All these elements, when played by a skilled nj salsa band such as Grupo Corazon, will combine to create an infectious groove that will keep you guests dancing all night long. Whether you are planning a wedding in New Jersey, a cocktail hour, or a special event requiring a professional salsa band in NJ, look no further than Ariel Entertainment’s own Grupo Corazon! Sources include this article from Grove Music Online: Lise Waxer. "Salsa." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/24410 Site Map View All Bands NY Venue Listing A - C - NY Venue Listing D - G - NY Venue Listing H - L - NY Venue Listing M - P - NY Venue Listing Q - S - New York T - Z - New York Salsa Band - NJ wedding info - NJ steel drum band