[MNDancers] Bues dancing and Tango to the Blues Saturday!

[Lois Donnay]

Tango to the Blues!
Dancing to the Blues: This Saturday September 27th, is another Blues Dancing and Dancing 
Tango to the Blues seminar.

7:00 PM Tango to the Blues (and other alternative music). Blues music has many similarities 
to tango, and sometimes is more approachable than tango because our ears are more familiar 
with it.  You need to have some experience with Argentine Tango for this class.

Then we'll start on the Blues Dancing at 8PM. Blues Dancing is a fairly new dance that 
allows us to interpret slow blues music with dance. It is deceptive - not as easy as it 
looks, but so much fun!

$15 for one class, $25 for both.
Class held at: 3142 1st Ave S.  Minneapolis, MN 55408  Bring your favorite beverage to 
enjoy during class.

Afterwards, join us at Famous Daves, Calhoun Center on Hennepin and Lake Street to listen 
to Byther Smith: "With a fierce, stinging guitar style and authoritative, hard-bitten vocal 
howls, classic Chicago bluesman Byther Smith hasn't lost an ounce of intensity as he 
negotiates his mid-70s. A Mississippi native who moved north during the '50s, Smith 
developed his terse but expressive electric guitar attack under the tutelage of his famous 
cousin, J.B. Lenoir, and Robert Junior Lockwood, and wound up playing with a good cross 
section of Windy City blues heavyweights, only emerging in his own right as he approached 
his 60s. His latest album, Blues on the Moon (Delmark CD and DVD), was recorded a year ago 
at the Natural Rhythm Social Club on the city's South Side. With a stalwart crew of fellow 
Chicagoans matching him step for step, Smith rocks the joint with anguished laments from 
Lenoir, Little Milton, and his own pen (particularly the autobiographical "Monticello"), as 
well as defiant romps like his own "Your Mama's Crazy." Smith's stuff is raw, visceral, and 
the real thing."