Based in St. Cloud, Minnesota, the Pachanga Society is an ever-evolving, ever-growing organic musical experiment that aims to combine the participatory musical spirit of Cuban Cabildos, Brazilian Samba clubs, and Spanish Charangas with danceable rhythms from all over the globe and a certain psychedelic rock-n-roll ethos.

At a typical Pachanga Society "meeting" the stage members lay down songs and Latin/Afro-Caribbean/Rock rhythms while members of the audience play the percussion instruments that the group distributes or those they bring from home. Everybody else just dances and/or revels in the spirit of pachanga, which in Spanish means something like "get down, get loose, party, whoop it up and have a good time together".

There will be music from Cuba, Colombia, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Brazil, Bolivia, England and the USA and it's all there to make you feel good. Combine one cohesive and powerful percussion unit with a solid rhythm section of guitar, bass and keyboards, add one part searing lead guitar, one part haunting Andean pan-flute or wooden flute, and a whole bunch of decent voices, shake vigorously and you've got the sound of the Pachanga Society.