Word: conga
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...Gibson hollow body and uses a bottleneck slide to make it skitter and howl. Garry Burnside locks in to the groove on bass (Chew is off working today, driving a truck for Williams-Sonoma), David Kimbrough Jr. adds a slinky guitar part, and Kenny Kimbrough wails on a conga. The instruments chase each other around the barn, hanging on a single chord and repeating a riff over and over with subtle variations and rising power while the folks outside dance in the dirt. This is trance music--the kind of sonic moonshine that has been served up for decades...
...investors. On Sept. 24, 1998, the initial public offering took place, with shares offered at $18; by the end of the day the price had bounded up more than 160%, to $47. Omidyar, Skoll, Whitman and the rest of the eBay staff were suddenly rich. Back at the office, conga lines snaked through the hallways...
...Miami Sound. Undeterred by industry executives who said, "Dump the timbales" or "It will never sell," the Cuban immigrant put together a local band called the Miami Sound Machine in the early '80s. The lead singer was his then girlfriend Gloria. The group's 1985 smash hit Conga transformed Gloria Estefan into the first Latin female crossover superstar...
...afternoon continued with joyful singing and dancing as a quintet struck polyrhythmic beats on conga drums and calabash gourds wrapped in beads...
Before the night was over, first-years performed every dance from the "Electric Slide" to the conga line. Members of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team had a chance to show off their skills to a captive audience. Isabel De Sola '01 even received a short lesson in tango dancing from a team member...