Tango.info festivals

http://festivals.tango.info

A website that lists tango festivals worldwide.

To suggest a festival for inclusion, you can

• submit the info via http://www.tango.info/add/festival

Definition

There is no specific definition of a festival yet.

indicators

• several invited teachers
• several performances
• several milongas
• several DJs
• orchestras
• the event calls itself "festival"
• running website
• NOT a marathon

Data

Sources for artist participation data:

• festival website
• 3rd party

Decisions

• 2009 - rejected: event with 1 teaching couple (several classes) and 1 milonga
• 2009 - "ARBUE conlasestrellas" + "IEDUB destinationtango" no running website
• 2010 - rejected: http://www.escartango.com/ only one teaching couple, does not call itself festival
• 2010 - reject http://tangoholiday.it/ - one teaching couple, does not call itself festival
• 2010 - reject Danube Tango Meeting 2nd edition - no running website found

Data usage

RSS feed

http://www.milonga.be/dancing/festivals/
which uses the embedded
http://agenda.milonga.be/festivals.php
which is based upon parsed RSS:
http://tools.forret.com/parss/rss.php?c=festivals

Feedback

• It would be good to be able to enter some info about the focus of each festival. For teaching and performing- centric festivals, this can be inferred from the Big Names. But for the rest, there is nowhere to enter the key information.