The Cha Cha Cha was a mid-tempo dance craze that swept the world in the 1950s. The first big hit was “La Engañadora” by violinist Enrique Jorrin, and charangas like Orquestra Aragón made it stick. Everybody and their mother cut a cha cha record, and here’s a few from the 300 LPs at the ARC. read more in genres
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• b.george - founder + director
• Fred Patterson - head archivist
• Alex Curtin - archivist
CUBA INTERNS + VOLUNTEERS
These folks did the tedious and important work of cataloging recordings, populating the links, sorting and re-sorting, data entry, the bulk of video harvesting and a great deal of the frantic last minute this-and-that.
• Manny Portillo
• Henry Bainbridge
• Jo-Ann Wong
• Harvey Ngai
• Nicholas Romaniello
ARC INTERNS + VOLUNTEERS 2016
These folks did everything else, freeing up time for us to work on Cuba Music Week.
• Brian Cummings
• Vincent Christopher
• James Desin
• Seth Schonberg
• James Ehrlich
• Joe Flynn