Salsa Rueda & Old Time Son Dance Band
Taught by Michael & Leslie Hubbert to accompany Cora Hubbert’s dance class. We will learn some of the great old Cuban and Puerto Rican dance tunes, as we accompany the dance class. Be prepared to stop & start with the flow of the class. All instruments welcome. Playing for dancers is the best way to learn & enjoy these rhythms and this music!
About Leslie Hubbert
Leslie Hubbert plays guitar, accordion, mandolin, and hand percussion. She has been playing for dances, and dance classes, for more than three decades. She has played in various bands, including Kasmendotche, Girls’ Night Out, Los Piratas del Caribe, and the Deep End Woogie Review. Leslie has taught Cuban & Puerto Rican songs, as well as children’s songs, in English and in Spanish, at Sierra Music & Arts Festival, Occidental World Music & Dance Festival, and at Lark in the Morning. She has been collecting and playing Cuban & Puerto Rican music for 25 years. With her husband Michael performing as a duo, they play a wide range of music from Latin styles to Italian cafe music.
About Michael Hubbert
Michael has been studying and playing various types of folk/ethnic music for 60 years. He attended the very first Lark Camp back in 1980, when he was part of the famous duo “Mooncoin”, with Mickie Zekeley. In the ‘80s he began exploring Puerto Rican and Cuban music and playing the Puerto Rican cuatro. He played for 10 years with “Mambo This”, and with “Los Piratas del Caribe”. Over the past 20 years, he has taught Cuban & Puerto Rican songs at Lark Camp, Sierra Music & Arts Festival, and Sommermusikfest in Germany. Michael and wife Leslie have traveled to Cuba, where they enjoyed playing the music they have been collecting for the past 25 years with some of the locals in Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of Cuban Son. Michael is also a musical instrument maker and restorer, of both string and woodwind instruments.