From: "Vince Bagusauskas" <[email protected]> I think that Australians prefer instrumental more so too....................
A sweeping statement. At Milonga Para Los Niños on 31 July (Brisbane), excluding 3 brackets from Cuarteto amenabar, I played 31 instrumental and 25 with vocal, across Tango, vals and milonga. Still getting compliments after 3 weeks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyIg2XX5uMM We have a similar experience at our monthly outdoor milonga (where the music quality is governed by a Bose portable). The milonga has a good reputation, numbers are strong and retention over a night is satisfactory, even on cool nights. So far in this thread, nobody has distinguished between Tango cancion and Tango with vocal, where the vocalist sings the "bridge" and typically the song starts with up to 1 minute of instrumental. I can not think of an instance that I would play tango cancion for general dancing. Personally, I find milongas without a balance of inst / vocal boring. I can't imagine a milonga without Podesta, Vargas, Ledesma, Campos, Castillo, Rufino, Duran.......... John _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
