Club de Tango

Doris had her first belly dance lesson yesterday. She got to do this one on her own. I have a bad back and the wrong gender to make some of those moves. Right after her lesson we had our third tango lesson with Pablo. We are not learning new steps from Pablo. He is working on basics and style with us.

In the afternoon we went with another guest to lunch. Magda is a student from Montreal taking a break before returning to work on her Masters in Anthropology. While we were eating lunch she mentioned that Lina had told her of a good place to buy tango music. Music is one of the things we wanted to get while we are here, so we asked if we could come along.

We weren't sure what to expect, but this was definitely not a Sam Goody. We took the subway to the downtown district. There were a lot of shops and many of them music related. We assumed that this shop would be a store front on the street.

Club de Tango is located in an office building on the 5th floor. We rang the bell on the office door and the lady that runs Club de Tango let us into a small office suite with 2 rooms. They must publish a periodic magazine as there were bundles of magazines stacked on shelves in the first room. There were also a display rack of tango records. These included 45's, LPs, and even Victrola records. Any other available space was covered with reproductions of tango sheet music covers.

We went through to the second room where the walls were covered with racks of CDs. I had no idea that there were so many artists playing tango. There were also books in a variety of languages about tango and DVDs of instruction and shows. We were fortunate that we were with Magda. She had been making a list of artists and songs that she heard on the radio that she liked. We followed her recommendations and purchased several CDs of tango music.