Latin Rock Exchange
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Latin Rock Exchange plays dance music with a Latin and Afro-Cuban flair and flavor, with lots of percussion and salsa-inducing rhythms. Their sets cover Latin rock music from War, Barrabas, Buena Vista Social Club, Jobim, Santana, Bublé, Sade; and many other classics across generations, songs that almost everyone will know.
Although this band is fresh on the scene, they have a wide variety of experience in all kinds of musical entertainment, now combining forces to become Portland’s own Latin Rock band. Produced and directed by twice Grammy-nominated percussionist and animator, Mark Giles, who grew up listening to this music as a kid living in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Jamaica, Kenya, and Zambia, in the sixties and seventies.