Author: KCF
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Review: Concert in Chicago
Review of Maria Volonte’s concert in Chicago, July 2 2011: from the Chicago blog www.cityvida.com Scent of a Woman … Welcome Ms. Volonte by Salbondigas My first introduction to Tango was watching the movie, Scent of a Woman, with the low-key Al Pacino. From that movie to Dancing with the Stars, Tango has been a…
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Workin’ it
Down the street from my old apartment in Palermo, by the hot pillow motels, was the Red Light District where you could have your pick of transvestites. I passed them every night on my way back from the newspaper. They were a lovely bunch of girls.
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Milongueras
I wouldn’t have spent all those hours, all those years in the milongas of Buenos Aires if I weren’t fascinated by milongueras. I am.
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Harmonica Player
I learned to play harmonica on the side of the road while hitchhiking across America — and I haven’t stopped since. My first love was the blues. While living in Buenos Aires, I became immersed in the world of tango and discovered that tango and blues share the same roots of desperation.
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Photographer
Photography for me was literally an exercize in seeing the world — not just seeing it visually but “seeing” it as it is, understanding it. Through the miniscule aperture of a camera lens I have attempted to disrobe the greater world around me.
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Writer
Since 2001, Kevin Carrel Footer’s writings are featured each Sunday in the Buenos Aires Herald. What began as short observations about life in Buenos Aires have become over the years an intensely personal and brutally honest account of his life couched in poetry.