Thank you!

by magickwords, posted in Cambalache, Sheffield Tango Festival
Bandonegro at the Sheffield Tango Festival.

A slightly belated but heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended the 2024 Sheffield Primavera Tango Festival.

In addition to spending time recovering, we’ve been looking through your comments and suggestions. Thankfully, overall the feedback has been delightfully positive; we do put a lot of time and effort trying to ensure that our Festival is friendly, inclusive and enjoyable.

Nevetheless, nobody’s perfect (with the possible exception of our lovely teachers, our outstanding live orchestra, our DJs and the cakes…) so be assured we are looking carefully at the ways we can build and improve on our Festival.

If you have’t commented already please don’t hesitate to contact us by email or via our website or Facebook page. Or you can speak to us at our monthly Cambalache milongas. You can be assured that everything you say will be taken into account when planning for 2025!

Thanks again,
Your Sheffield Tango Festival Team

And thank you, too, to Rex Boyd for the photograph of the amazing Bandonegro!

Getting there…

by magickwords, posted in Uncategorized

Just in case you aren’t aware, the Festival venue address is:

KING EDWARD VII UPPER SCHOOL, GLOSSOP RD, SHEFFIELD, S10 2PW

Parking at the Festival

If you arrive by car, there are gates and a one-way system. You must enter the School by the entrance between two pillars on Glossop Road opposite the Rutland Hotel and leave by the other gate onto Newbould Lane. Look out for the Primavera Banners!

As you approach the gate you need to stop near to the keypad on your right. You will then see a red flickering light on the left of the gate and it will open for you. Please do not attempt to manually open or push the gate as this will damage the system! When you leave, please leave by the gate at the other side of the main building, which will open automatically in the same way as you approach.

There are pedestrian gates if you are on foot which just push/pull open in a normal way.

There are other users of the School during Saturday and Sunday mornings, so please park sensibly and you must always leave the space next to the downstairs double door for loading/unloading/disability access.

Thank you.

From 2023

by magickwords, posted in Sheffield Tango Festival

Orquesta Típica Andariega played live at the Saturday night Primavera Ball at the Sheffield Tango Festival, 29 April 2023.

Orquesta Típica Andariega con Marisol Martinez, ‘Siempre Es Carnaval’. Recorded at the Milonga Parakultural, Salón Canning, Buenos Aires.

Fresedo’s ‘Siempre Es Carnaval’ (It’s Always Carnival) was written as a condemnation of consumerism. From the translation by Tanguito, Argentine Tango Academy:

How many live in fancy dress,
without realising they’ll remain like that!
How many listen to themselves without laughing!
This world is the stage
of a big non-stop cinema
that makes us shop.