The Reverend Bazil Meade is an entertaining showman and inventive musician who insists that everything he does has a spiritual dimension, even when salsa dancers are showing off their moves in front of the pulpit. Over the past 30 years he has led the London Community Gospel Choir from churches to football grounds and pop concerts, and he is now exploring how gospel can be fused with Latin styles. Two years ago his singers travelled to Barcelona to work with that city's Latin Big Band, and now comes a new collaboration, with the musicians led by the British-based Cuban violin virtuoso, Omar Puente.

As one of the opening shows in this year's La Linea London Latin Music festival, it was a suitably rousing if messy celebration. Eleven, predominantly female, members of the choir, who had been chosen to take part and given training in salsa dance choreography, were up against Puente's band, dominated by brass and percussion players. The opening was a wipe out, with the cheerfully energetic singers blown away by the brass.

Then on came Rev Meade to restore the balance, prowling across the stage and mixing the charisma of a powerful preacher with the vocal skill of a great gospel and soul singer. Now, the event developed into full-tilt party. Of course it was right that the gospel songs should be performed in a chapel, but the crowd were encouraged to get up and dance – difficult when you are squeezed in a wooden pew. This was an exuberant, entertaining and worthwhile fusion experiment, but the two highlights were the sections where each side performed apart, with Puente showing off his remarkable rapid-fire violin work with backing from his band, and the choir demonstrating their stirring harmony vocals on Long, Long Lonely Journey, backed only by percussion.