PACHANGA! Summer Sounds Street Party

Follow your ears + enjoy this outdoor SUMMER SOUNDS street party featuring LATIN + SKA + AFROBEAT + REGGAE vibes from 3 local bands + BBQ and market!

Celebrating the end of the year and the summer vibes will be LOS CHAVOS, THIS WAY ORKESTRA and RAIO DE SOL – teaming up for another dose of community roots and culture outside Smiths Alternative – and best of all it’s FREE!

🌞 SUNDAY 8th DEC
🌞 12pm – 3pm – FREE ENTRY
🌞 CONCERT + BBQ + MARKET

We’ll be setting up outdoors @ SMITHS with a BBQ and a small MARKET – plenty of shade and good vibes to go around! Rumor has it that a if it’s real hot there will be some sort of water fight! After 4 amazing editions of vibes PACHANGA! returns with this afternoon outdoor summer party filled with LATIN + SKA + AFROBEAT + REGGAE!

🌴 LOS CHAVOS [Latin – Ska – Cumbia]
🌴 THIS WAY ORKESTRA [Afrobeat – Reggae – Jazz]
🌴 RAIO DE SOL [Live Percussion]

LOS CHAVOS
Having been a part of CBR’s musical landscape for over 14 years, Los Chavos are proud to be on the vanguard of original urban latin music in Australia. The bands studio releases in 2008 + 2012 are tight testament to their live sound and unique vision – showcasing the bands signature energy coupled with complex arrangements and a variety of Afro-Latin rhythms such as cumbia, dub/reggae, merengue, timba and chakarera but never straying too far from their ska/reggae roots.

THIS WAY ORKESTRA
Canberra’s very own enclave of Afrobeat + Ska + Reggae sounds – this 10-piece orchestra combines the mighty Afro-Funk of Nigeria’s Fela Kuti with a tight brass section and heavy jazz + ska grooves! From West Belconnen to West Africa and beyond, this musical collective will keep your nyash shaking! Originally formed in 2012 by Nicholas Combe and Simon Milman – two stalwarts of the local jazz and reggae scene in Canberra – the band recorded their debut EP as “NYASH” the same year and played around the ACT. 7 years later the band has reformed with original members and some great new additions, including a frontman Jim Sharock on vocals and percussion – flexing new musical influences beyond ska and Afrobeat to include reggae, ethio-jazz, and dub.

RAIO DE SOL

Raio de Sol is Canberra’s community samba band – playing rhythms that will get your feet dancing, bring joy to your heart and a smile to your face. We play massed acoustic percussion beats that are intoxicating, vibrant and for everyone, young and old. Raio de Sol is a group with heart – a big, bold, warm and welcoming heart that embraces community. Raio de Sol – meaning ‘sunbeam’ in Portuguese – is apolitical, non-religious and non-discriminatory and welcomes anyone from all walks of life to join.

SET TIMES

• 12:00pm – RAIO DE SOL (Samba + Street Percussion)
• 12:20pm – LOS CHAVOS (Latin Ska + Reggae
• 1:30pm – RAIO DE SOL (Samba + Street Percussion)
• 1:45pm – THIS WAY ORKESTRA (Afrobeat + Ska + Jazz)

BAND MERCH

We’ve put together a sweet band merch + music pack for this gig – support local original live music!