Different festivals meet different needs. Some festivals have famous show couples with performances, others specialize in social tango with great DJs, others cater to students sleeping on dorm room couches.
I like the idea that some festivals draw from across a region, while other have a national draw where you can meet your friends from San Francisco or New York. The term festival might be a marketing angle or wishful thinking on the part of the organizer. Two pairs of teachers without a cast of nationally-known DJs is more like a "workshop weekend", even if you have 20 out-of-town visitors. Another example, Tango Colorado puts on a special outreach weekend with 15 or 20 Denver teachers and Saturday milonga. Is that a festival? It would be informative if your list had attendance figures. Depending on the structure of the event, these numbers aren't always so cut-and- dried. Maybe 150 people buy a full pass another 100 drop-in, and another 50 just do one event. On Jul 29, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Shaun Sellers wrote: > Recently there was some discussion about which was the first tango > festival. I have tried to compile a list of all current tango > festivals in North America for this year: > > http://www.gatewaytango.org/festivals.html > > If I am missing anything, please let me know. The growth seems > remarkable. But with over 50 festivals a year, one may wonder if we > are reaching the saturation point. > > shaun > > 2011 TANGO FESTIVALS in North America: > > Jan 14-17, TODOS SANTOS (Mexico) - TodosTango Festival > Jan. 20-23, HOUSTON - Houston Tango Festival > Jan. 28-31, ANN ARBOR - Fire and Ice > Feb. 3-6, HONOLULU - Hawaii Tango Paradise Festival > Feb. 9-14, PORTLAND - ValenTango > ... Tom Stermitz c: 303-725-5963 http://www.tango.org Denver, CO 80207 _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
