Costa Rica: Music, Dance and Nightlife
From Salsa to Chamber music there’s something for everybody. Live bands play at different clubs all over the country. Salsa, Jazz, Rock, Tango, Tex-Mex, and Calypso are all on the locale at different nightspots in Costa Rica. If you are staying in and around San Jose the best nightlife is located at El Pueblo in Escazu.
Here you will find eateries, dives and shops.
Club Twister is one club that is highly regarded playing modern and Latin music.
Another is El Tobagan and while they are just open on the weekend they’re always packed. Somewhere in El Pueblo the Tango Bar is found. It’s got a couple of older gals that serve drinks and perform soft ballads. If you are fortunate an Argentine visitor will be in a position to interpret the words. Occasionally you’ll have the treat of seeing a good tango performed.
Costa Ricans like to dance and they are so good that it is frightening. Not so much cha cha, but there’s lots of cumbia, merengue, lambada, and salsa. If you get an opportunity before you go to Costa Rica attempt to get in some salsa lessons. It’s the most fun you may have and it sure makes you know that you are alive.
There’s dancing at night in any quantity of clubs all over Costa Rica but the majority of the better hostels have music at night. If you talk a tiny quantity of Spanish and you’re looking for local events then you can try and read the local papers the Tico Time and La Nacon. These should help you to find local movie times and information on concerts and holidays.
The venues for the music change from year to year dependent on what festival planners have in mind so check the local paper or ask around. The local Ticos will be more than pleased to offer you any information they have on where the following performance is. Costa Rica is predominantly Catholic so almost all of their vacations follow the common Catholic vacations like Yuletide and Easter but one vacation that stands proud is the party of the Black Christ Esquipulas. This holiday begins in Guatemala but is celebrated all over Costa Rica. There’s massive population of Guatemalan immigrants so this can have something to do with the celebration. The Teatro Countrywide was built over a hundred years back an in that time Costa Ricans have developed there own state theater company. In addition Costa Rica has their own Symphony and Ticos love classical music almost as much as Salsa. For those that like a different kind of nightlife there also are some nature and wildlife tours. In the Mountverde Cloud Forest there are night tours that show you the fantastic thing about wildlife that only shows itself at night.