Pista de Baile en la TV Publica...y Los Manseros Santiaguenos

 

Another unforgettable evening experiencing the Best of Argentine Tango. This time in the main studio of Public TV here in Buenos Aires - gratis. One of the best known groups of tango show dance is the Corporacion Tango (funny name for an artistic team). They performed during the 'intermission' between orchestral performances and public participation - no tango evening is complete without everybody joining in to dance - including yours truly....

The line up of artists for the evening lasting four hours, was impressive. The agenda as shown in above video clip did not mention the talented tango 'cantors', one of whom could be another Carlos Gardel.

 

 

Somewhere in this crowd of dancers, I am dancing 'under the lights of the stage'.

 

During the previous evening, on a totally different note, so to speak, I participated in an evening on Ave Corrientes, Broadway of Buenos Aires, listening to Folklorico. A difficult choice....the theatre on the opposite side of the Avenue staged Chaqueno Palavecino, another 'great' of Argentine Folklore, if not the most well known. However, I decided for Los Manseros Santiagenos, a group consisting of member of the same family hailing from Santiage de Estero Province. A 'tamer' finale (manseros means tamers) for a long afternoon of milonguering at Confiteria Ideal.
The oldest member of the group, playing El Bombo, the big drum, is the historic founder named Onofre Paz. However, all family members of the group apart from Onofre, Alito Toledo, Fatiga Reynoso and Martin Paz are solo artists as well.
The group broke all attendance records at the Festival de Jesus Maria and the Most renown Festival de Cosquin, they are nick named the 'Rolling Stones del Folklore'.
With that they have a following which seems more like a mass of football fans, than gauchos del campo or more or less civilized Portenos.
The theatre was packed. In the manner of football fans, supportive banners everwhere, people leaving their seats and crowding aisles, jumping up and down, wildly waving their arms (never mind a face being in the way) and singing along, one could cut and paste a football match stand into the theatre seats and it would be the same image, all totally oblivious to their surrounding except for 'their team' on the field or on stage.
I was somewhat 'nonplussed' as one needs a certain amount of courage to sit amongst these people almost crazed into latent violence with their unleashed enthusiam.
But....the music....es un sentimiento, no pueden parar! It is a feeling, that cannot be stopped.

 

Here they play a Zamba......honoring poets of Santiago de Estero

 

The Ballet Folklorico Nacional Argentino rounded out the evening with Los Manseros Santiagoenos with a selection of Zambas, Chacareros and Malambos...

 

 

And people ask....what do you do in Buenos Aires apart from dancing tango.....