Kalahari Sands Hosts Fiesta Latina

From New Era, Namibia
3rd May 2012

The Kalahari Sands Hotel & Casino, Ondjila Y’Ondjaba in collaboration with a number of independent local artists have joined forces to present regular Sunday lunch concerts at the hotel’s revamped Dunes Restaurant.

This is the perfect setting for a relaxing hour or two on Sundays during mid-day, where the musical and the culinary senses are being tickled concurrently. This Sunday the Dunes Restaurant launches the concerts between 12h30 to 14h30 with a Fiesta Latina, a tango-rumba-cha-cha-bossa-nova-samba-con-salsa music project featuring Uli Busch on guitar and vocals, Jesus Lasso on violin & vocals and Christopher West on percussion. The group aptly manages to reconstruct a veritable Cuban “Buena Vista Social Club” atmosphere, offering pure listening pleasure – even inviting to dance.

Ulrich Busch received classical guitar training at the Hochschule Für Künste in Bremen, Germany and was taken through the ropes of solo guitar rendition by Frank Bungarten, Hanover. Jesus Lasso Rey is a Spanish national, who studied classical violin at the conservatoire of Burgos from age 7 through 22. His passion lies in modern arrangements of traditional Spanish and Celtic folk music. Christopher West was a teacher of percussion at the College of the Arts 1990 – 2005. He partnered as dancer with Anita Ortiz and her Spanish Dance Company, presenting Spanish folklore dance – cum music spectacles.

The show is conceptualised and arranged by Uli Busch with music from Villa Lobos to Gypsie Kings, Jobim to Conselo Velasquez and Buena Vista Social Club. The group ‘throws in’ popular ballads from Alanis Morissette to Stevie Wonder to break up the program from time to time. The sound is kept at a non-imposing level throughout – allowing patrons to listen in and/or hold a natural lunch time conversation.

The restaurant buffet offers a wide selection of meat, fish, seafood, fresh salads and vegetables – complete with starter, desert and coffee or tea. At a fixed rate per person one may order everything the heart desires and as much as the belly can take. No cover charge is asked for the music. Doors open at 12h30 and the show kicks off at 12h30. For bookings please contact the Dunes Restaurant at Tel 280 0344 at the Kalahari Sands Hotel & Casino.