Pa'lante -- Hot Salsa and Latin Jazz

We are all pros and will work with your needs. We can provide sound or work with your sound technician.
Sets are generally 45 minutes, depending on the total show length. We are flexible regarding the length of the program.
Our book of music is very broad. Let us know what you would like.
Expect an exciting, professional musical experience.

PA’LANTE plays a fiery, potent mix of highly danceable, uplifting salsa and Latin jazz. Their music ignites audience participation with its irresistible Afro Cuban, Latin, and Caribbean rhythms and its big 9-piece band sound.

A rich multicultural experience, a Pa’lante concert reflects the influences of Cuban and Latin music masters like Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri and Mongo Santamaria, as well as the modern trends in Cuban and Caribbean music.

The band is beloved by dancers for their high-spirited presentation of salsa, timba, merengue, Cuban son, cumbia, cha cha cha and other danceable styles. The musicians are outstanding players, deeply accomplished in Latin music and jazz. They may even surprise you from time to time with an Afro Cuban folkloric number, always a treat.

Pa’lante has performed to wide acclaim all over the Portland area, Willamette Valley and Southwest Washington, including being invited to open for such Latin luminaries as Tito Puente and Mongo Santamaria.

Variations: Pa’lante can provide delightful musical pairings for your events – whether a concert, wine or craft beer tasting, picnic, wedding, celebration or festival! We tailor our size and sound to your needs, from an intimate straight-ahead jazz trio or quartet with a Latin flavor, to our Latin jazz quintet, on up to the highly danceable “full strength” 9 or 10-piece band rich with uplifting, irresistible salsa, Afro-Cuban and Caribbean rhythms.

A few of our past shows:
Cinco De Mayo at Portland Waterfront
Cathedral Park Jazz Festival
Portland Parks including Dawson, McCoy, Holladay Park, South Park Blocks, Mt. Tabor, Washington Park
Tuesday Marketplace in Hillsboro
The Crystal Ballroom and other McMenamin’s venues
Celebrate Hillsboro
Washington Park Zoo
Mt. Hood Jazz Festival
Many street fairs, most recently Multnomah and Hawthorne
Rose Festival
Dayton Friday Nights
Ardenwald Neighborhood Concert Series
Bumbershoot in Seattle
Oregon Country Fair
The Red Rose Ballroom
Many local music venues, weddings indoors and out, quinceaneras, parties, bar and bat mitzvahs and celebrations of all kinds.