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I heard, in preparation for this story, that the DJ occasionally requests that visitors form a conga Iine.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

The chain’s executives are hoping that those planned visits will include paying $20 to $40 a ticket to join the conga line and throwing down at the bar.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

On social media this weekend, Trump applauded a picture of a map showing a conga line of vessels sailing to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

Arnaz gained celebrity as the American popularizer of the conga, an Afro Cuban line dance that his father had once tried to ban.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

The old men all raised their instruments at once, and the room filled with a shock of horns over the gentle footsteps of conga drums.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

He also plays the congas and the batá, a sacred Afro-Cuban double-headed drum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

“Let There Be Love” finds the drummer using his hands on his tom-toms to make them sound like congas, giving the track an Erroll Garner flavor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Squeezing past a set of congas he came to his signature instrument – the vibraphone.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

From the sidewalk outside El Fogón, you can see the twin rotisseries slowly spinning in place, the skewers stacked high and wide until they look like congas.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023

A few secondhand mint-condition musical instruments like trumpets, trombones, congas, and tambourines were on display inside a glass case, their price tags sticking out like a tag on a dead man’s toe.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

Schweini should suffer no repeat tonight: these days opponents crumble in front of him, rather than congaing behind him.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2010