TR SNIPPET: CLAUDINE CASTRO SPANISH MUSIC

While I am a bit miffed at the Eastside Cannery’s Webpass program.  ??link??  I have never been disappointed with the Claudine Castro Latin Lounge Act that starts at 10 PM on Monday nights.  I went three times this trip and enjoyed all of it, although I don’t have enough fluid Spanish to catch much of the meaning of the lyrics of the songs.  Still, it is great fun.

It is like walking into a slice of the American Latino community and most of the show, the banter, and even table conversation is in Spanish, so it is an emersion experience.  I am not familiar with the songs selected, but the audience knows them and in some way they are popular.

 Dancing happens in the corner dance floor.  My salsa is very bad, so generally I am just too shy to dance, but on my third visit board friend Elsa from Amsterdam came along as my date and so I did get to do a bit of dancing and we were even invited in to dance in the center of a community circle on that dance floor. 

Most of the community knows one another and they know Claudine.  It is fine to see the friendly hellos and hugs and hear the banter. 

I can’t seem to make it past two sets anymore, all the way to 2 AM.  Perhaps sometime I will just have a room there on Monday night and stay the distance.  This trip I left at 12:30 each visit and took a bus back downtown or walked over to Sam’s Town.

My last trip I had a dancing date with Elsa, a discussion board friend.

I was a bit nervous as to whether Elsa would like the adventure or not.  We started with another board friend, Sarah, at the Spice Market Buffet, went for some poker at Flamingo, and then we took the long 202 bus ride out to Boulder.  The bus stops right at the Eastside Cannery and waits while the driver takes a ten minute break.  This makes the trip back easy as anyone can watch for the bus from inside the casino door and then head out with plenty of time to board.

 

 

The BHX has a stop right in front of the casino on Boulder.  It is not the express, but it does not take too long to get to downtown. 

For a long while this Latin show was the only piece attracting me to this area, but after this trip I am attracted by the full pay machines at Eastside Cannery and at Sam’s Town as well as the poker at each place as well.