I don’t pretend to have any knowledge of music. So don’t think you will be reading anything that adds up to yours. Music should put me in a good mood, just as a nice red wine.
Well, being in Buenos Aires
La Boca used to be a poor fishing village. Out of pieces of old boats the people constructed a kind of patchwork houses. Now these colorful houses are transformed into shops and restaurants or places for another kind of touristic activities. You cannot stop progress.
Just go there to enjoy what is there: Music, dance, food and wine. It is nice to look around in the shops for presents to take home. It even looked more prosperous than 5 years ago. After visiting some shops and taking pictures of the houses (yes everybody takes the same pictures… and you can also just buy them on the street), we settled down at a restaurant called “Yunta”. Enjoying life at a place like this is great.
There was the classic tango couple. The man, a dark looking person with an Inca face, was a fantastic performer. He couldn’t have been better casted for this show. Expressing this touch of machismo, that is so essential for the tango. There was also folklore dancing by a gaucho and his partner.
Most of all I enjoyed the singing of Julio. Julio already 80 and still going strong! Old tango songs from long ago, when La Boca was a wild place and Julio was young. “Por un cabesa”…. melancholic and beautiful. I took another sip of my wine …….
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