When the Spanish colonized the Carribbean islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico and Santgo Domingo, they brought western African slaves to create plantations of tobacco and sugar. Despite the human injustice of the slave trade, we are thankful to the evolution of Afro-Latin music. Skinned hand drums, wooden sticks and bells meet with trumpets, guitars and piano to form Musica Tropicale, the broad name given to the danceable music from the Caribbean islands and the central American mainland.

This heritage and Australia's wealth of cultural diversity and hot north east coast are the raw ingredients for Fiesta Tropicale's music.