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Carmen Maret and Andrew Bergeron of the Folias Duo talk with their colleague Christopher Martin about the music for their upcoming album release. They discuss the process of musical recycling in composition, the intersection of tango, and …
This year we started our 2018 California route with a milonga in Sacramento for Tango on Broadway. We continued with a concert in San Francisco and then we played for a milonga in Ventura hosted by our friends Stephen and Deb who curate Quantum Tango, a group we’ve …
Last week we were in Northern California and Oregon playing concerts in the Cascades. We started off the week with our third performance at the Burning Tango Festival playing Saturday night right before the evening Milonga. Many thanks to all of the enthusiastic dancers.
After the festival, we drove …
When we tour we play two different kind of gigs–we play for concerts and we play for tango dances called milongas. The milongas on the Dreaming to Live Tour represented 9 out or 27 performances in 7 states. The great thing about playing a dance is people listening to your …
Carmen and I have been playing arrangements of Astor Piazzolla ever since we met in September of 2002. We have played many different pieces by Piazzolla but recently we decided that it was time for some new Piazzolla arrangements.
The first piece that I decided to arrange, Escualo, was …
Well, its been 3 years since we “officially” toured for tango and we are almost off for a two week whirlwind of milonga performances across the country. This year’s adventure will take us to the southwest!
We’ll be driving a newly purchased 2004 Ford Focus Wagon that will eventually carry …
This past month while Andy has been teaching summer music theory courses at GRCC, I have been working on commissions for our dancer/musician friend Nick Jones and his tango group Orquesta Tipica Natural in Denver, CO. Here is my arrangement of Canaro en Paris based on a D’Arienzo orchestra version …
Andy and I spent two days in a cabin we rented in central Colorado preparing for our tango gig in Glenwood Springs. After five years of playing tango together we are finally doing our first milonga entirely from memory–something we should have done sooner! If you ever visit Glenwood, don’t …
