Seven Cities Salsa is Hampton Roads Latin Music & Dance Community

What we do...

Seven Cities Salsa's ultimate goal is to promote, educate and build the Latin Music & Dance community in Hampton Roads, Virginia serving the 'Seven Cities' Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Portsmouth and Suffolk.

We acheive our goal by working with local Latin music bands & artists, DJs, dance instructors & studios, and venues to hold events. We also work with local community groups and organizations to being awareness of that Latin culture. See our list of current and past clients we have worked with...

How can you get involved?

Street Team - Coming soon!

Get involved in things happening throughout the Hampton Roads area by attending different venue events, dance classes, festivals, etc.

Become a Seven Cities Salsa representative and gain great benefits

Travel to events outside of the area and report it back to everyone here!

More details to come soon!

Business / Club Owners

Host an event(s) at your establishment and post it on our calendar for free!

Sign up for one of our advertising packages below and let Seven Cities Salsa help to not only promote your event, but also your business!

Dance Instructors / Latin DJs / Latin Bands

Submit your upcoming classes on our events calendar - for FREE!

Create a profile in our member community to meet new people who might be interested in your services.

Community Orginzations

Want to hold a fundraiser or event to help the community? Need some additional help to get the word out to the public about your cause? Seven Cities Salsa can also help by sponsoring your organization.

What we offer...

Free Services

Event Calendars
Submit your events on the Seven Cities Salsa event calendars free of charge to promote your event. 65% of Seven Cities Salsa's website traffic is local the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. To submit your events, simply create a profile in our community, the click on Events and then Submit Events.

Community Profiles
Create a profile in our online community to connect with other local members who take the same interest in the Latin music and dance scene just like you. Register today!

Contests/Giveaways

Members of our online community are eligable to win prizes offered by local business and organizations through our online drawings. Members earn points through website participation which can be used to enter drawings for these prizes.

Paid Services

Event Advertising
Got a big event coming soon that you need some help promoting to the local community? Seven Cities Salsa offers a range of advertising packages to fit your budget and your needs.

Business Advertising

Want to promote your business? Have a weekly event at your establishment that you want to tell people about? We can help drive spread the word.

For more information on our advertising packages, click here to contact for more information.

History

Who started Seven Cities Salsa and why?

In 2007, Adina Gaskin and Shawn Simmons teamed together in hopes to help build the Latin dance community in Hampton Roads, the Seven Cities, by creating a public awareness of the new and upcoming salsa dance community that was just beginning to blossom.

The vision was to build the dance community in hopes of reaching great heights as seen in other nearby cities like Raleigh, NC and Washington DC. This was only going to be accomplished by bringing together dance instructors, DJs, bands, venues and... effective marketing to the local community, that had no clue this exciting craze actucally existed here in Hampton Roads.

How has Seven Cities Salsa grown?

Within the first year many new faces began to show up at events through the consistant word of mouth and the website promotions for free salsa dance lessons being held at Club Sevens in Norfolk. This lead to added awareness of Norfolk's very first Latin dance studio, the Mambo Room.

As other venues began showing interest in holding events at their establishments there soon became something to do many nights of the week to curve that hunger to dance as seen on the timeline below.

Today, Seven Cities Salsa continues to help grow its local dance community by offering its services in promoting and organzing events, marketing of local Latin influenced businesses through its website and other many different media types.