La Llorona :: Fabrizio Cammarata (and Chavela Varga, too)

I first heard/discovered Fabrizio Cammarata in Austin, well, outside of Austin in Wimberley, a number of years ago...happened across this first one whilst putzing around this morning...and then found the second one searching further...

There is nothing quite like live music, in person, being right there in the moment...

I like the first performance better...


From wiki: La Llorona - In Mexican folklore, La Llorona (pronounced [la ʝo.ˈɾo.na], "The Weeping Woman") is a ghost of a woman who lost her children and now cries while looking for them in the river, often causing misfortune to those who are near, or who hear her

From wiki/the song/lyrics here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Llorona_(song)









Here's the scene from the film "Frida" with Chavela Vargas singing La Llorona:



And here's a high def version:

A dying tango community...

There are a lot of reasons why I think our tango community in Aspen is dying a slow death and I won't get into them all now. But one reason was exemplified at our (new) Tuesday night practica last night. Although I didn't go, this is the intel report I received over a glass of Pinot Noir, filet mignon and lamb chops, all prepared by a chef who had two major root canals only hours before:: No tango music was played at this "Argentine Tango Practica"...not even "alt" or "nuevo" tango music...simply "other" "totally non-tango" music was played...

I assume no tango was danced either... or tango was at best attempted... I have to agree with the purists... it's not tango if it's not tango music... plain and simple... it's not fucking tango so why call it that... a bunch of fucking wannabee tango blasphemers... they give tango a bad name... and repel interested people from the purest form of the art... fucking fuckers...

Sorry... I am pissed... and I am a purist...