And so we, Boogaloo Club, are hosting the 10th Annual International Salsa Festival "The Third Front"- Just imagine that - the tenth!!!

It feels like just recently our first 34 guests arrived to Rostov with Alex Alksentsev and Carlos Torres in the lead. Just recently Uretz was carrying Ismael Otero through a window to star struck girls. Just recently Milton Cobo was dancing Rueda with shorts at his head in the beginning of 7 o'clock AM hour. Just recently we met Mike and Erell at the airport, having arrived to a foreign, unexplored Russia wearing long coats in 40C heat.

And at the same time, how long ago that was! Leon Rose was teaching workshops in Bachata, and Lee Rios in Casino :):). Long awaited Tito and Tamara with their "Palladium", two-storeyed Rueda in the pool of "Embargo", the parade oc cities under the flag of the Olympics, and the white limousine, who was running late because it couldn't make it through the sharp turns near Lendvorets.

Like they using to say: there's much to remember and it's worth to tell to our kids! :):):)

Anyway, 10th Third Front awaits, and it's theme is... «Palladium»!

The Palladium Ballroom was a second-floor dancehall on 53rd Street and Broadway in New York City which became famous for its excellent Latin music from 1948 until its closing in 1966. Palladium's second name is "The house of Mambo". Every Sunday a queque with a lenght of a few blocks hasted to the hall which could house about a thousand pairs, and cinema and dance celebrities flowing there from all over the continent.

The year 1950, started the mambo craze that eventually spread across the United States began at the Palladium because of the Big Three: Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez and Machito. At the height of its popularity, the Palladium attracted Hollywood and Broadway stars, especially on Wednesday nights, which included a free dance lesson. Dance instructors such as "Killer Joe" Piro - who briefly served as master of ceremonies the Palladium - and Carmen Marie Padilla (later the poet Carmen M. Pursifull), would offer mass dance lessons for the huge crowds. Club-goers of the era report seeing Marlon Brando, George Hamilton and others there.