Does anyone know if this is a sit down affair or a dance? I tried
ringing the box office but they couldn't tell me.
Geoff King

--- In SuffolkDissTango@..., "Cliff Hoppitt"
<cliff4.hoppitt@...> wrote:
>
> Friday 18th April 2008
>
> It's Tango time at The Manor Ballroom, Ipswich!
>
> La Chicana 1.jpg (131052 bytes)
>
> Peppery Productions are excited to announce that La Chicana, a top
tango
> band from Buenos Aires, will appear at the Manor Ballroom on Friday
18th
> April 2008.
>
> La Chicana is an absolute revelation, one of the funkiest takes on
Tango
> heard for many a year. The band draws on Tango from the 1920s and
1930s but
> with a distinct twist. La Chicana hail from Buenos Aries, have won
> prestigious awards, collaborated with BBC world music award winner
Chango
> Spasiuk and gained great reviews from both Froots and Songlines.
>
> La Chicana was formed in early 1996 with the clear intention of
producing
> tango music with a rougher edge; they favour the "canyengue"
rhythms and
> humorous melodrama of early tango as opposed to more solemn later
flavours.
> They truly believe that the essence of tango lies in its 1920s
spirit of
> rebellion and spontaneity which puts it ideologically closer to
roots music
> than to the orchestral forms that popularised it in the world since
the
> 1940s.
>
> But they don't lack subtleties or precision; they are fine
musicians with a
> taste for improvisation and texture. All they need is the chance
to prove
> that tango music should thrive as popular music in the streets
while it
> continues to dazzle from the orchestral stand.
>
> Set to appear at The Manor Ballroom in Ipswich on 18th April, La
Chicana
> have delighted audiences all over the world (Spain, Germany,
Brazil, Canada,
> England and Senegal) and have added to their music, elements of
different
> cultures akin to tango along the way.
>
> Don't miss what will inevitably be another great night of live
roots music
> from Peppery!
>
> Info at www.peppery.co.uk
>
> Listen to soundclips at
http://www.lachicanatango.com/music.html#ayer
>
> Tickets now on sale from The New Wolsey box office - call in or
ring 01473
> 295900
>
> '...if it says Peppery on the poster you're guaranteed a good time!'
>