Mambo Navidad : A Christmas mambo, salsa and Cuban music party
Orchestra Mambo International + Sabroso Dance Company + El Caspete DJs & DJ Lubi
Leeds Latin music promoter DJ Lubi throws his final Brudenell show of 2025 on Friday 5th December. It's a big Christmas mambo/salsa/Cuban music party with the UK's premier mambo/salsa band playing live accompanied onstage by the north's top mambo dance company, plus DJs playing strictly vinyl salsa and Cuban sounds. Welcome to MAMBO NAVIDAD!
Orchestra Mambo International are one of the leading mambo/salsa groups in the UK today. Since they started 3 years ago, they've released 4 singles (3 on vinyl 45, 1 digital), played Glastonbury Festival (2 nights, GlastoLatino stage 2025), sold out famous venues in Manchester/Edinburgh/London/Leeds (including Brudenell, Belgrave and Howard Assembly Room), had their original music played across the BBC by Gilles Peterson/Jamie Cullum/Jamz Supernova/Craig Charles/Huey Morgan/Cerys Matthews, and appeared on a legendary "Live At Maida Vale" session on BBC 6 Music for the Cerys Matthews show (2024 Christmas Special).
On 1st December, they will release a Christmas digital single titled "Mambo Navidad" on Loft Recordings, originally written for and played on that Cerys Matthews/Maida Vale live Christmas special in December 2024. This show is the official single launch party, as well as being the last show of 2025 by the band. They've got some special guest musicians on this show, including London rising jazz trumpet star Olivia Cuttill, plus Leeds big band/brass band legend Tom Sharp (Tom Sharp Jazz Orchestra/Loud Noises Brass Band). Also Leeds/London alt-jazz singer Romy Taylor (who is British born but grew up in Spain and loves salsa), will be joining the band's Venezuelan lead singer Carlos "Pachanga" Pena onstage to sing "coro" (backing vocals).
Once again, the band will be joined onstage for selected numbers by dancers from the north's finest mambo/salsa dance group Sabroso Dance Company. If you saw them together at the sold out Leeds Jazz Festival 2025 show at Belgrave Music Hall last May, you know it's always fireworks when they link up.
Finally, keeping the Christmas party vibes going all night long are guest selectors El Caspete DJs (Diego and Eyan), who join DJ Lubi on the turntables for an ALL VINYL selection of great Latin music....mambo, salsa, son Cubano, cha cha cha, merengue, songo, Afro-Cuban jazz and Latin bugalu. Good news for all the saleros & rumberos is Brudenell have said the DJs can keep playing until midnight after the live band set is over.
Doors 8.00pm. DJs 8.00pm-9pm. Band onstage 9pm-10.30pm. DJs until midnight. Tickets from Seetickets, DICE, Jumbo Records and Crash Records. Book in advance. Orchestra Mambo International shows previously at Brudenell and Belgrave Music Hall have SOLD OUT.
