Open Eye Cafe – May 18th

Carrboro, the Paris of the Piedmont, will be the scene this Friday of Argentine tango with a French touch. We invite you to Join the Triangle Tango community for a magical night of dancing at Open Eye Cafe.

Our May Milonga will feature Xavier Mela and his lovely wife, Patricia Owens who will add a decidedly French touch to this month’s Milonga. Xavier and Patricia will teach the free lesson from 8 to 9 PM. Xavier will be playing the best of tango tunes as our DJ for the evening.

Your host will be Belgian milonguero, Daniel Bossut, who will greet you in French, English, Spanish or maybe in Chinese if you prefer.

Put on your dancing shoes, order a glass of French wine or maybe a Malbec from Mendoza and step out onto the dance floor.

Dancing begins at 9 – 11:30.

Admission $5.00

Open Eye Cafe
101 S Greensboro Street ~ downtown Carrboro, NC

Milonga Carolina: a special Triangle Tango Milonga at Parizade May 26th

Thierry Olivry and Barbara Atlee host Milonga Carolina, organized on behalf of Triangle Tango, and it will take place on Saturday May 26, 2012 from 10PM-1:30AM

at Cafe Parizäde
2200 West Main Street, Durham, NC
http://www.parizade-ghg.com/

There are two options for this event:

1. Dinner + Dance: the dinner, which will start at 8PM, will have a fixed family-style three-course menu in the tradition of previous events at Parizäde.
The cost is $40 to include one glass of wine, tax, tip and milonga entrance fee.

Payment must be made in advance, by Thursday May 24 at 8AM, using Paypal (www.paypal.com - click “send money”):
Just send $40 per person to: Thierry Olivry at: to.online@me.com

There will be no possibility of on-site payment for the dinner.

2. Dance only: $10 to include one glass of wine. Payment will be collected at the milonga.

We hope that you will consider joining us for the group dinner as well as the dance. The food is excellent and a good value for the price. It is an occasion to socialize among friends in a more formal setting.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Talk A Tango

Talk A Tango – Sixth Tanda,
The secrets of La Cumparsita

We have seen in our previous column how Roberto Firpo transformed a simple march into a popular tango, when touring Uruguay in 1916. Gerardo Matos-Rodriguez, who was the actual author of the march, had no idea that, many years later, his tango would be solemnly declared Cultural and Popular National Anthem of Uruguay and he would be considered a national hero. The new tango had been initially conceived by Matos-Rodriguez as an easy-listening marching song to be danced during the approaching carnival festivities. But after Firpo added a third section to the song (Continue Reading…)

Talk A Tango

Talk A Tango – Fifth Tanda,
Roberto Firpo, the first innovator

“The happiest day of my life cost me 200 pesos” Roberto Firpo would say evoking the day in which he purchased his first piano. This sentence defines Firpo’s spirit. The piano was his passion and he worked hard to fulfill it.

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Triangle Tango Ride Share & Hosting Facebook Group

In response to members’ suggestions, we’ve created a separate Facebook group for members and other tangueros who want to carpool to events or who wish to find a place to crash after a late-night milonga. If you need a ride or someone to host you or if you are willing to drive or let someone sleep on your couch, please feel free to join this group:

Triangle Tango Ride Share & Hosting
(http://www.facebook.com/groups/275765855845562/).

This is a closed Facebook group, meaning those who are interested must send a request to join the group. Once you’re in, you may post your request to the group’s wall. Posts to the wall can only be seen by members of the group. Like other Facebook groups, members will receive notifications when others have posted to the wall.

Please spread the word about this new service for Triangle Tango members!

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  • Triangle Tango promotes Argentine tango in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. The website offers information about tango activities and events in our community. For a list of upcoming events, please see the calendar, below.