Friday Night Milonga

Friday, May 5th, 2017
9:45PM - 4:00AM
Millennium Maxwell House
Room - Maxwell's Lounge
2025 Rosa L Parks Blvd Nashville, TN 37228

Nashville Dance Congress presents

~Tango de Mayo~  

Friday Milonga

Enjoy live music by the lovely Athens Tango Project from Athens, Georgia.  Then, be swepted away by the glorious, hypnotic tango grooves spun by Atlanta's best, Angel Montero, and Ramzi from New Haven, Connecticut.  Maxwell's Lounge has been newly renovated with smooth hardwood floors and a spacious ambience. Enjoy!  

 The pre-video shows an elegant tango milonga social.  Enjoy!

Live Music & Deejay Schedule
9:45p~ 10:30p DJ Angel, Atlanta, GA
10:30p~ 11:30p Live music by Athens Tango Project
11:30p~ 12:00a DJ Angel
12:00a~ 1:00a Live music by Athens Tango Project
1:00a~ 1:45a DJ Angel
1:45a~ 2:30a DJ Angel
2:30a~ 3:15a DJ Ramzi, New Haven, CT
3:15a~ 4:00a DJ Ramzi

Pre Video

Featured Music By

Athens Tango Project

Athens Tango Project Laura Camacho started her music career in her hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She specialized in classical double bass, while remaining active in her obsession, tango music. As a member of Las Del Abasto, she opened for premiere tango acts such as Sexteto Mayor and Mariano Mores. After being offered a scholarship at the University of Georgia, she moved to Athens, Ga, where she found there to be a lack of tango music in the classic city. Camacho assembled a group of top notch local musicians from Nicaragua (Ricardo Hurtado), Poland (Teresa Grynia), and the US (John Phillips) to perform in the group. In addition to the main lineup, an extended lineup of musicians have worked with the group and are called in for larger gigs. The group's collective of world class musicians have played with the likes of Bela Fleck, Ben Folds, Catupecu Machu, Cee-Lo Green, Deerhunter, members of Drive-By Truckers, members of Olivia Tremor Control and Circulatory System, Herbie Hanc...
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DJ Angel Montero

Atlanta Tango Club In addition to teaching, Angel Montero started DJing locally in 2004, and over the years he has become one of the most sought after DJs in the country. He has been the DJ of choice for many special events in the Southeast, and now he is being invited to DJ in festivals all over the country, like Denver, Ann Arbor, Austin, Kansas City, Tangosutra (Washington, DC), Puerto Rico, Tampa, Cleveland, Nashville, Maratonazo (NYC), Dallas and Tango Element (Baltimore, MD). Angel usually favors rhythmic music (D’Arienzo rocks) but he pays close attention to the energy he gets form the dance floor. Most importantly, he does not believe in "killing the milonga" as he always wants you to go home wanting more. Angel was also the organizer of the in-haitus Atlanta Tango Festival, one of the best tango festivals in the US.  ...
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Ramzi Mardam Bey

Ramzi Mardam Bey started his dance journey in none other than what he calls "the heart of Argentine tango in the USA": Nashville, Tennessee! In the lovely Music City, Ramzi began delving into the addictive art of tango. He realized that a better understanding of and familiarity with the intricacies of the music translate into a richer dance. From there on began the constant listening to Argentine tango, vals, and milonga, followed by starting to DJ at weekly classes, practicas, and milongas in Nashville. Work had Ramzi part with the South and move to the Northeast, where he now is actively involved in the New Haven and other Connecticut tango communities both as a dancer, solo guitar performer, and DJ. Ramzi sees himself working towards becoming a more mature and versatile dancer through ongoing diligent practice and study. The nuances of Argentine tango are endless, and Ramzi aims to continue deepening his understanding of this amazing art, culture, and lifestyle through its myriad fa...

DJ Mary Yang

DJ Mary Yang hails originally from Bangkok, Thailand and has been actively involved in the Nashville Tango community since 2011. For a year and a half, Mary hosted a very popular Black & White milonga at Belmont Mansion that emphasized bringing traditional milonga to Nashville. She is one of the house DJs at Nashville's weekly Pink Slip milonga and guest DJs at various other weekly and monthly events. Mary's favorite tango composers are DiSarli, Fresedo, and D'Arienzo. As a DJ, Mary strives to keep everyone's feet moving and dancing long into the night by playing the best, time-tested, and dancer-approved music....
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Featured Artists/Instructors

Carolina Zokalski and Diego Di Falco

Carolina & Diego's Website Carolina Zokalski and Diego Di Falco are Tango Legends. Their tango journeys combined while they toured with the famous Forever Tango, becoming the youngest tango dancers in the history of American Musical Theater on Broadway. The couple was nominated for a Tony award for ”Best Choreography”and the artistic image of Diego Di Falco was used in all the show’s promotional materials, including the major billboards in Times Square. They have since performed in more than thirty cities in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and Japan. They sold more than 7,000 instructional videos of their first series between 2000 and 2004. Now, they enjoy their very own Authentic Argentine Tango School in Summit....
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Fabian Salas and Lola Diaz

***Fabian Salas*** Fabián Salas is a famous Master Argentine Tango dancer, teacher, and choreographer from Buenos Aires, with over 30 years of professional experience.  Partnered with his wife, Lola Diaz, they have taught thousands of tango fans worldwide and specifically in Argentina, Brazil, USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, UK, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Russia, Greece, Turkey, and other countries. In 1992, Fabian became one of the first professional Argetine Tango touring teachers in history and in 1995, he pioneered the development of a revolutionary way of understanding, teaching and dancing the tango.  Fabian assisted in filming the famous motion picture Evita in 1996, and a year later became internationally recognized for his principal dance role in the award-winning film The Tango Lesson.  Since then, Fabian hosted BBC’s “The real… Buenos Aires” and “...
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Alex Chern and Victoria Lim

Dallas Tango Festival ***Victoria Lim*** Victoria started dancing Argentine Tango in Dallas, Texas and recognized as organizer and DJ in the community. She has evolved as a dancer and teacher in a community that is visional and open minded about the dance and brings the same qualities to her teaching. Victoria is known for her graceful yet dynamic style and unique musicality. Over the years, Victoria immersed herself in the world of Argentine tango and continued to hone her techniques in the various tango styles – salon, milonguero, Nuevo and stage. She embraces the beauty of each style and recommends her students to find the styles that they enjoy the most. In her teaching Victoria focuses on the simple mechanics of movement while emphasizing the importance of precision in technique and maintaining solid connection with your partner and the music. She channels on two main elements: creating an organic, natural embrace for leaders and followers, and musicality. ***Alex Chern*...
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