Tango Folias is a tango band formed by Folias that specializes in live Argentine tango music for milongas (tango social dances).2007 Schedule
Tango Folias
Dean Windemuller, guitar and vocals
A jack-of-all-trades musician, Dean Windemuller is trained in classical, jazz, finger style blues,
and tango. Born and raised in West Michigan, Dean Windemuller attended Wheaton College in
Illinois before returning to Grand Rapids where he works as a free-lance musician. He is also a
trained singer and doubles as a guitarist and vocalist with Tango Folias.Debbie Crosser, violin
As a tango dancer and tango violinist, Debbie Crosser merges dance and music performance.
She is currently working toward a degree in Music Education from Calvin College, and is an
active teacher and is in her 6th year of teaching Suzuki violin for Grand Rapids Community
College’s Arts Outreach Program. In addition to playing and performing chamber music with
the Grand String Quartet, Debbie currently performs and is a founding member of Grand Rapids Community College’s Mariachi Azul y Oro, a Mexican folk music performing group. She has
been a recipient of several music scholarship awards including the Clossen Jones and Budres
Music Scholarship.Andrew Bergeron,guitar and dance instructor
Andrew has performed tango music for dancers since 2003 when he joined with Carmen Maret
to form their duo called Folias. Originally from Holland, Michigan, Andrew Bergeron splits his
creative efforts between composition and performance. During his Master’s degree in composition at Michigan State University, Andrew Bergeron composed music for a variety of ensembles including, solo guitar, guitar and flute, electro-acoustic music, chamber music, and tango. He has taught tango in the Grand Rapids tango community since co-founding it in 2005.Carmen Maret, flute and dance instructor
Carmen Maret began dancing tango and performing tango with the Kansas City, MO based group, Tango Lorca in 2001. Later, she studied tango as an ethnomusicology Master’s student at Michigan State University, and produced a Master’s thesis in 2005 that looked at tango in the Michigan Argentine Tango club based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Carmen Maret is a co-founder of the Grand Rapids Tango Community where she works as a tango teacher and tango musician. She has been performing live tango music for dancers since 2003 when she joined with her husband guitarist Andrew Bergeron to form their duo called Folias.