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What's On Events Calendar run by John Lowry at http://www.latinlinkslive.com.

If you are interested in things Brazilian in Australia Brazillinks.com.au is the best place to start. Brazil Links Australia,  Level 1, 155 Queen Street Mall,  Brisbane, Queensland, 4000  Australia

Tel:  + 61 7 3210-6194 Fax: + 61 7 3210-6967
e-mail: atendimento@brazillinks.com.au
 

Check out this website if you are in Brisbane and interested in samba & percussion ......
http://www.gresprimavera.com
 

Oanda is a great currency converter site.

 Brisbane City Life has info on everything happening in Brisbane plus cheap last minute hotel rooms.

For Brazilian, Afro-Cuban & much more in Brisbane check out http://choqolat.org.

Find out what is happening in latin music and dance in Brisbane and around Australia discofiesta.net

The Australian Latinos Online site has lots of info and links for everything Latino.

The University of Queensland Romance Languages Club runs regular functions with food, music & dance from the romance language countries - Spanish, French, Portuguese and Romanian. If you are interesting in attending or sponsoring any of their functions, contact Ananda Lim at  romancelanguageclub@hotmail.com.

FM 98.1 runs a Latin Radio show  every Monday night from 9:15pm to 11pm.

BayFM 100.3 has a Brazilian music hour every Sunday from 9am to 10am Australian Eastern Standard Time. You can stream it live over the web here.

Brisbane LatinFrequency Radio (AM 1701) broadcasts Salsa from 12 noon to 3pm every Saturday. Hosted By Dj Duste & Latina Anna. Call and support them as they are lucky to get a 3 hour slot. They need to believe that LATIN FREQUENCY IS NEEDED BACK On the airwaves. So lets show them how much you want NEW GOOD SALSA ON THE RADIO.
 

Steve Bridgette is a Rio Rhythmics student who has become something of a hero of local folklore in the past year. Check out his website at http://www.members.optushome.com.au/stevebridgette

There is a new BRISBANE Salsa Club Site on Yahoo. Just go to BrisbaneSalsa.com

Latina Anna & DJ Duste have a new site www.salsamixmasters.com. Check it out!  

Donovan's Salsasational Latin Events has a website up now. Check it out, something to look forward to is the Brisbane Salsa Festival. www.salsationallatinevents.com

For weekly information on Salsa venues in Sydney, see our LatinMotion's events page at www.latinmotion.com.au/events or StreetDance's latin dance events site at http://www.geocities.com/sd_au/whatsnew/sdvenuex.htm

If you are going to Melbourne, check out LatinDanceMelbourne, a group for latin dance enthusiasts in & around Melbourne Australia. It allows dancers to make direct contact with each other and share information about classes, clubsand events. Lots of useful links to other Latin Dance Melbourne sites too. It is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LatinDanceMelbourne/

On Friday nights, you should also check out VIVA Dance Bar run by VIVA Latin Dance School (Christian Drogo & Kristina Diaz) at Level 1 - 3 Johnston St , Collingwood (cnr Smith St).

In Perth, Fabio Boschetti's page has excellent information about the salsa scene http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/BoschettiFabio/private/about.html

Also check out a fantastic new web site run from Melbourne, latinlover.com.au. Check out the Cuban Dance Academy links on this site.

Dancepartners.com.au is a site that helps people find dance partners.  It is mainly ballroom but you never know your luck.

Whats on in Brisbane tells you everything you need to know about Brisbane events including many latin events.

Check out HOT MAMBO's website. They are the only 10-piece Latin band in Brisbane...and they are DAMN good. There are even a few tracks  to download from their new CD "Smoke Signals".

 

Tango Lessons in Brisbane

Perth tango club website is at www.perthtangoclub.com. You can also email Kate at info@perthtangoclub.com.

If you are off to Melbourne, have a look here for everything Latin in Melbourne.

In Adelaide, get all the info from www.labomba.com.au

Calabash Music Salsa site even has online salsa lessons & animations - EXCELLENT

Salsamundo is an excellent site for salsa fans.

e-Tango Live streaming latin music including Tango

Radio Tango
Live, streaming tango music.

Radio Salsa
Live, streaming Salsa music.

Radio BossaNova
Live, streaming BossaNova music.

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 Simon Friele's Favourite Links

Dance schools/promoters/venues

http://www.latinmotion.com.au/ http://www.casadelasalsa.com/index_flash.html

http://www.clubsalsa.com.au/

http://www.latindance.com.au/

http://www.latinexplosion.com.au/

http://www.dancesalsa.com.au/

http://www.ruedisima.com.au/

http://www.clubhavana.com.au/ http://www.latinconnection.com.au/#caliente

http://www.picantedance.com.au/

http://www.latinfusion.com.au/

http://www.salsalicious.com/

http://www.thelatindance.org/

http://www.havanabeat.com/

http://www.dancecentral.com.au

http://www.salsafever.com.au http://www.sophieserafino.com/salsa.htm

Brisbane

http://tango.jaz.com.au

http://www.latinx.com.au/index.htm

http://www.riorhythmics.com.au

http://www.casablanca.com.au

http://www.latinbeat.cjb.net/

Melbourne

http://www.latinlover.com.au/

Salsa scene news sites

http://www.thelatinvoice.com/

Radio stations/info http://homepages.tig.com.au/~mvtaylor/upcoming.htm

http://www.batanga.com/sp/default.asp

and.... a couple of ceroc sites

http://www.cerocdance.com.au/

http://www.cerocaustralia.com.au/