[img]2055|right|||no_popup[/img]The days of summer and the Thursday nights of the 17th year of Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Concert series are dwindling down to a precious few.
Tomorrow evening at 7, in the next to last concert in the Courtyard of City Hall, it will be reunion time for fans and entertainers.
Ricardo Lemo and Makina Loca have been more of a staple of popular entertainment than almost anyone else on producer Gary Mandell’s agenda over the years.
“Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca – a dynamic 10-piece band that can burn up the dance floor by capturing all of the elements of African and Cuban music,” says Mr. Mandell.
The World Music ensemble blends African soukous and rumba with Cuban salsa and son.
A native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Mr. Lemvo sings some of the material in Spanish and some material in the African tongues of Kikongo and Lingala.
Makina Loca features a dazzling array of attacking horns, mesmerizing percussion, and a rolling piano that floats along, dancing to Afro-Caribbean groove.
“These guys play with an intensity that makes it impossible
to hold still,” says the San Francisco Examiner.
