How To Use Conga In A Sentence
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But a couple of months ago, in a Times Square studio, congas were pounding out Afro-Cuban rhythms, dancers in high heels were twirling to fast-paced mambos, and just about everyone in sight was a shade of brown.
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There's as much boogie-woogie in its movements as conga and tango.
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Each man was surrounded by an absolute armada of percussion: Bongos, congas, sambas and tom toms; high-hats, kettles, timpani and snares.
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She was backed by acoustic guitar, bass and congas.
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Once I was in a conga line around the pool when my foreign editor called to discuss a trip to Helmand.
Times, Sunday Times
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We linked arms and sang the Lambeth Walk and formed a conga line, there was laughter, and singing.
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He played on manfully on stages in basement clubs as naked Metropolitan policemen danced the conga.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove.
Archive 2006-10-01
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July 22, 2009 at 3:02 am conga rats, anni! purrhapz eh tryp tu teh ty buteek?
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The last time I was in Henley on election night was 1992 - I went to conga round the town square, but the presence of policemen rather put me off.
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Armed with trumpets and congas, they keep things up-tempo, but this is an exception to the rule, and melancholy prevails.
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After a quiet intro where the interweaving trombone and sax establish the melancholy theme, the full band of drums, piano, congas, bass clarinet, trombone, and tenor sax aggressively joins in.
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A conga line of people were shuffling about in white paint.
Times, Sunday Times
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OPPENHEIM: And they go in what you call a conga line?
CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2007
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We then dance the conga, party until we drop, and wake up in a world of health for all.
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This involves a series of rather complex situations (including the above mentioned conga and also an amazing illuminated bustier).
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Last week, 65 students danced the conga through the centre of town.
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Most likely to: Lead a conga.
The Sun
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‘Maybe we'll have some congas and bongos, marimba and vibraphones, a bass drum, cow bells - perhaps a Chinese gong,’ she said, thoughtfully.
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Aye doo knot noe hao too teach mai ratties de Conga butt aye gonin two trye nao!
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On the ones that were inhabited, they most likely encouraged enforced group activity, with nowhere to hide from the conga line.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's always performed by big bands, with trumpets, trombones and saxophones, sometimes with flutes, and always with Cuban percussion - the congas, bongos and timbales.
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We've already bailed out the financial industry with uncertain results, are bailing out insurance giant AIG (who congaed all the way to Vegas for a $350,000 celebration blowout,) will soon bailout the automakers, and rushing up next for the free money are the airlines, home builders, mortgagees, and people who ran up too much credit card debt.
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So the overall effect from some distance away was of a green thread that moved steadily, but jiggled and shook like a sensuous conga line.
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He hopped about energetically, did the trademark Edwin moves, played congas and really worked the crowd.
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Underneath all these echoing voices (including his own mumbles), he stretches pulsing bass, percolating congas, and an ocean of polyrhythmic waves into a weird dance song constantly in-flux.
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One of my favorite moments finds Eric Burdon asked to lead his fellow Animals in a kind of conga line toward Unsworth's camera as "House of the Rising Sun" charges toward its crescendic finale; as a straight-faced Burdon relates his story of a man brought low, guitarist Hilton Valentine, visible just behind him, can't resist cracking up at the absurdity of what they're doing to promote their record.
Archive 2006-09-10
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The present book is an abridgement of Congar's massive two-volume work on tradition, and is highly recommended for both personal study and classroom use.
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Conga lill tiny ratz on yer braided nawt sekkund: Lolcatburgler, Maus and 4.5!
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*forms into cheezburger shape* *omnomnomnom* Hmm. still hungree. *lions up conga rats* *makes them conga* *puts mowf at end of conga lion* Ohhhhh noeeesss i ated teh conga rats and nao i has a sick!
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Some danced an impromptu conga as they partied in the streets outside.
The Sun
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These three main patterns are amplified by turtle shells, claves, timbales, bongos, congas, maracas and tambourines.
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These three main patterns are amplified by turtle shells, claves, timbales, bongos, congas, maracas and tambourines.
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The horns front a rhythm section that includes three percussionists armed with congas and bata drums, with no piano or guitar in the middle to mediate.
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Anyway, Los Siete Castigos is filled with tracks like this, that take their sweet time unfolding - much like Villalobos 'most recent work (see his Perlon 12 Chromosul) - with highly developed shuffling rhythms, many of which take on a Latin tinge with slices of congas and other elements reminiscent of his South American roots.
Music (For Robots): October 2005 Archives
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Vocals, additional keyboards, congas (by someone credited only as Rocky) and the famous lead guitar line were added later.
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The plows move in a ‘conga line’, one tossing snow to the next.
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However, the entrance of a clear cumbia rhythmic pattern played by the guiro, as well as a new rhythmic emphasis provided by the congas in measure 9, reverses our rhythmic interpretation of the introductory passage.
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Ginny had a mini-stroke, and now walks sideways to a kind of conga beat in her head.
Hunters
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The plows move in a ‘conga line’, one tossing snow to the next.
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Also pleasing to the ear was the harmony between the regular drum kit and the congas.
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Here the chant alternates between monody and three-part polyphony, following the method of twelfth-century Parisian discantus as it has come down to us in the only extant work of Master Albert of Paris precentor of the Cathedral of Saint-Étienne, preserved in the Codex Calixtinus: the Congaudeant catholici.
Archive 2009-03-01
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These three main patterns are amplified by turtle shells, claves, timbales, bongos, congas, maracas and tambourines.
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Music-wise, it's me with an electric piano, small analog synth, drum machine, and vocoder with the occasional conga or harmonica add-in.
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On the heels of a serpentine bass clarinet solo, the piece ends with sax, trombone, and clarinet wailing against a massive brew of drums, congas, and bass.
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The present book is an abridgement of Congar's massive two-volume work on tradition, and is highly recommended for both personal study and classroom use.
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June 7, 2010 at 3:01 pm conga stell thee ratz, TTC!
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These three main patterns are amplified by turtle shells, claves, timbales, bongos, congas, maracas and tambourines.
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The three of us have formed an involuntary and immobile conga-line, like a trio of backpackers on a rush-hour commuter train.
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Each track seems to be accented with an exotic instrument like the Indian drum, bass conga, Moroccan clay drums, and the wah-wah bass.
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Couples fall into a conga line and unison foxtrots.
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I took up percussion in high school, learned congas and timbales, was basically self taught.
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The line-up includes two violins, flute, keyboards, bass, timbale, congas and bongos with strong vocals and you'll need to dig out your salsa shoes because this gig is a legendary dance night at the arts centre.
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On the ones that were inhabited, they most likely encouraged enforced group activity, with nowhere to hide from the conga line.
Times, Sunday Times
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While visiting New York to promote the track they saw a Samba band playing in Central Park - overcome with ‘Latin spirit’ they went out the next day and bought congas, bongos and whistles.
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This is probably why the players did the conga in the car park when he left.
The Sun
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The beat continued to simmer as the volume was slowly increased with the addition of more guitar and drums, led by a man hitting two congas with a mallet.
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But don't bother forming the conga line just yet.
The Sun
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But this didn't stop her from moving to the beat of the driving conga drums as my brother taught us to mambo in our living room.
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Last night, two Canadian women elders turned the meeting into a Conga line with a flirty dance from their Innu nation.
Peter Bosshard: Global Grassroots Network Emerges From "Rivers for Life" Meeting in Mexico
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Diaz deploys at least five congas to create his dense patter, their skins tuned for maximum musicality.
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Mr. NOZ: D.C. has always been a go-go city, which is a, you know, a style of music that's -- it's derived from funk and kind of conga driven.
Oddisee: Hip-Hop Leaves The City
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You'll be dropped into the midst of a boozed-up street party with trumpets and congas.
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It's always performed by big bands, with trumpets, trombones and saxophones, sometimes with flutes, and always with Cuban percussion - the congas, bongos and timbales.
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Burman took advantage of Bhosle's vocal versatility and created songs for her that brought Western musical influences to Bollywood combining, say, congas with tablas or finding some of the grooviest psychedelic rock sounds.
Asha Bhosle: The Voice Of Bollywood And More
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With short, ruffled tops and skirts and headpieces for the women, and large, ruffle-sleeved tops and white pants for the men, the group danced conga oriental, a common diversion during Cuba's Carnaval.
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When you mention the top milers, you have to mention Congaree.
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Climbers pile up as harnesses and shoes and ropes come out, helmets are donned, groups splinter into pairs and trios, and the conga line slowly inches up the mountain.
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‘Maybe we'll have some congas and bongos, marimba and vibraphones, a bass drum, cow bells - perhaps a Chinese gong,’ she said, thoughtfully.
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And can I put you down to lead the conga?
Times, Sunday Times
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Richard adds to the enchantment of these tales with the rhythms of his mountain dulcimer and conga drum.
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Snowboy's lead on congas and assorted Afro-Cuban beatboxes is shared with shimmering vocals by Davide Giovanni and backed by the formidable talents of the Latin Section.
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Later they danced the conga and had an erotic dancer on stage.
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On the ones that were inhabited, they most likely encouraged enforced group activity, with nowhere to hide from the conga line.
Times, Sunday Times
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As long as people are citing influences on ‘Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da’, McCartney got the title from his friend, Nigerian conga player Jimmy Scott, who apparently used the phrase to mean ‘life goes on’ (in Yoruba).
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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As he was leaving the training ground for the last time, the players did the conga around the car park.
The Sun
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I have to say there were quite a lot of comments about my dancing as we congaed through the clinic, when I say comments I suppose I mean jokes, apparently the people of Chainda had quite a lot to teach me when it came to shaking my booty!
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May 20, 2010 at 12:59 pm oooh sownds deeliytefull…butt! ai members ai must stay awai frum swordfishes….till bebbeh gets heer n e wai. congarats tew A1 and Angelplume!
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Now that's the kind of conga line you want on your radio.
CBC | Top Stories News
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Most likely to: Lead a conga.
The Sun
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At Middlesex University students intend to conga through afternoon lectures at its Tottenham campus.
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But don't bother forming the conga line just yet.
The Sun
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At 9.30 am, I find myself dancing the conga with 100 Ghanaian women.
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She was congaing with the kids, trying to get her friends to join in the fun (which they wouldn't do) and she conga'd all over the room with those kids.
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Once I was in a conga line around the pool when my foreign editor called to discuss a trip to Helmand.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gary Robert JonesLlanelli• Mildred Bailey gave a warning of what can happen if your dancing instruction is inadequate Letters, 13 May in the 1941 recording Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry: "My tango resembles a two-step, my rumba makes people turn pale, my conga goes into a goose-step, 'til the FBI is dogging my trail.
Letters: The 'ize' have it
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Her traditional sokay sound comes from the harmonica and a conga drum known as a balah.
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On the ones that were inhabited, they most likely encouraged enforced group activity, with nowhere to hide from the conga line.
Times, Sunday Times
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But if he congas like that, he's going to spill his margarita.
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In the late 1950's Ros got a smart idea of recording Broadway musical melodies arranged to different Latin rhythms: the mambo, cha cha cha, rumba, samba, baion, bolero, valse creole, meringe, guaracha, and the conga.
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As he was leaving the training ground for the last time, the players did the conga around the car park.
The Sun
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Untermalt von sphärisch schwingenden Sequenzen, locken klapprige Congas auf entschlossenen Sohlen.
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There's no conga drum or timbale on this album," said Zaccai, referring to Latin jazz's signature rhythm instruments.
Brothers as Keepers of Latin-Jazz Sound
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Some danced an impromptu conga as they partied in the streets outside.
The Sun
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Umm… howzabout a Surely Tempel for eberyone fallowed bi a conga line.
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‘Maybe we'll have some congas and bongos, marimba and vibraphones, a bass drum, cow bells - perhaps a Chinese gong,’ she said, thoughtfully.
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The band enters with congas and something of a samba-rock beat.
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On Caribbean Odyssey he plays bongos, congas, timbales, cowbells, Hawaiian nose flutes, chimes and even the agogo bells.
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It's called la conga which is one of the most popular dances in South America.
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There's as much boogie-woogie in its movements as conga and tango.
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Each track seems to be accented with an exotic instrument like the Indian drum, bass conga, Moroccan clay drums, and the wah-wah bass.
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Their instruments include a full drum set, surdo, or Brazilian bass drum, conga drums, bells and ganzas or shakers.
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She lets each song breathe, adding in conga solos, DJ scratching and trumpets from her tightly synched seven-member band.
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Conga ratz 2 PJ Perry and tehy deserb a roun uv drinksees …. mebbee sumthin lyke apple cyder wif snapps?
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I knew it was going to be a long day when I saw three penguins dancing the conga across the main reception hall.
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The cadets do a Copacabana-style conga, and the cops do a wicked Irish dance parody - instantly recognizable.
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I tank all ov yoo heer– an anoder conga ratz to JAJEH!
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After a quiet intro where the interweaving trombone and sax establish the melancholy theme, the full band of drums, piano, congas, bass clarinet, trombone, and tenor sax aggressively joins in.
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The horns front a rhythm section that includes three percussionists armed with congas and bata drums, with no piano or guitar in the middle to mediate.
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Do the conga, or tango, or merengue at Gloria's Bongos Cuban Cafe in downtown Miami.
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April 10, 2010 at 7:03 am conga rats pb, u leed teh luvvley free wai tye!
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This is probably why the players did the conga in the car park when he left.
The Sun
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At the same time - despite omnipresent congas - it isn't terribly exotic, and that's fine as spacing out may not have been the point.
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But a couple of months ago, in a Times Square studio, congas were pounding out Afro-Cuban rhythms and dancers in high heels were twirling to fast-paced mambos.
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For part of the set, they took turns in separate roles: Mr. Marsalis on timpani, Mr. Powell on drumset and Mr. Riley on congas.
Jazzfest: Drum Battles and a Tribute to Max Roach - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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On the ones that were inhabited, they most likely encouraged enforced group activity, with nowhere to hide from the conga line.
Times, Sunday Times
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They end with the him leading a conga around the crowded venue.
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The primary musical instrument is the conga drum.
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Inside the Big Swan Stadium, celebrating England fans danced a massive conga through the stands, carrying Japanese children on their shoulders.
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A conga line of people were shuffling about in white paint.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then the band played ‘Road to Amarillo’ and the guests danced the conga through the hotel, and the men played rugby in their kilts at midnight.
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'Minimal Dub' on the flip offers a wider percussive palette with clocking congas synched with scissoring hi-hats but the crucial source of energy is that controlled yet ferocious subbass twist, containing all the evil potential of
Boomkat: Just arrived
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There's keyboard, bass guitar, drums, two trumpets, two trombones, timbales, conga and two backing vocals.
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The Cuban hutia (also called hutia conga) is about 60 cm long, with coarse fur, a raccoon-shaped body, and a thick tail covered with sparse bristles.
15 Agouti
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He has a bright red shukha blanket draped over his shoulder and a baton-like weapon, called a conga, tucked in his belt.
Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger: Africa Goes Wireless
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He boasts ownership of ‘congas, washboards, harmonica and guitar’, the way other movie stars boast of owning vintage cars.
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The performance was a 20-minute introduction to the artistic principles and driving aesthetics of hip-hop culture, starting with naked rhythm from a conga drum, then showing the evolution of the rhythm into the DJs scratching with turntables and vinyl records.
Gil Asakawa: Why I Love the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
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The first one brings out the congas and growling bass line to underscore Kanamori's string of curses, both at regular speed and drastically slowed down for added queasiness.
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And can I put you down to lead the conga?
Times, Sunday Times
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It's always performed by big bands, with trumpets, trombones and saxophones, sometimes with flutes, and always with Cuban percussion - the congas, bongos and timbales.
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Made in Manchester, finished in Liverpool - the next thing you know we will be doing a victory conga the length of the East Lancs Road!
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He sang to himself as he conga'd his way through the office.
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Nobody has joined yet, so if you sign up in the next few days you’ll probably get a bunch of FREE referrals, especially since the person who started the conga is almost finished!
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However, the entrance of a clear cumbia rhythmic pattern played by the guiro, as well as a new rhythmic emphasis provided by the congas in measure 9, reverses our rhythmic interpretation of the introductory passage.
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He played on manfully on stages in basement clubs as naked Metropolitan policemen danced the conga.
Times, Sunday Times
