Salsa Celtica

There’s a joke in Scotland about a man who loved his wife so much that he almost told her, so a Scottish band playing passion-filled Latin music sounds a bit counter-intuitive, but Scots/Irish/Cuban supergroup Salsa Celtica took The Old Market by storm with their hot Celto-Caribbean fusion. Anchored by the Cuban son and güiro of Ricardo Fernandez Pompa, the band took a dancing audience on a whistle stop tour of islands from Cuba to the Hebrides, possibly with a stopover in Edinburgh, as Gaelic puirt a beul and bagpipes merged with trombone, congas and oozing Afro-Caribbean rhythms. It was just as well the venue had removed the tables and chairs because if not, we would have been up and dancing on them.

The Old Market, 23 March 2014

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