We’ve had a crazy couple of weeks getting ready for the upcoming Alaska tour. Here is what we’ll be doing the whole month of July as we drive our way to Fairbanks and back!

Tour Stop 1: Atlin Arts and Music Festival, British Columbia

We’ll be giving a tango workshop and performance at the Festival in Atlin, the northern most town in British Columbia!

Tour Stop 2: Whitehorse, Yukon Arts in the Park

We’ll be performing outside in Whitehorse, which is the capital of the Yukon–population around 20,000. Which by the way  is 60% of the total population of the entire Yukon!

Tour Stop 3: Kluane National Park, Yukon

We’ll be backpacking here four nights! Kluane National Park t is part of a system of 24.3 million acres between the U.S and Canada that together contain the largest internationally protected land-based ecosystem on the planet.  Check out this cool map.

Tour Stop 4: Village Bakery in Haines Junction

Just outside of the Kluane we’ll be playing a gig at The Village Bakery in Haines Junction.

Tour Stop 5: House Concert in Tok, Alaksa

Luckily we’ll be playing a concert and giving tango lessons here during the summer. Tok Alaska is notorious for its extreme temperatures, easily -44 degrees F in the winter. 

Tour Stop 6: Denali National Park and Preserve

We’ll be hiking and camping for three nights at Wonder Lake which has potential views of Denali–highest peak in North America.  

Tour Stop 7: Denali Park Salmon Bake

We’ll be playing Friday at Prospectors and Saturday night at “The Bake”. Woo hoo, tango and salmon!

Tour Stop 8: Tango Course at Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival

We’ll be at the University of Fairbanks for the Summer Arts Festival for three days teaching a course we designed called Tango From a Musical Perspective. We’ll also be performing our own tango compositions with some fantastic musicians on a world music concert.

Tour Stop 9: Westmark Hotel in Fairbanks

A fellow tanguero in Fairbanks was gracious enough to help organize an evening event that will bring us together with Caitlin Warbelow–resident violinist at the Fairbanks Festival.

Tour Stop 10: Driving…..
According to Google it takes six, 8 hour days to get from Fairbanks to the U.S. border.

Tour Stop 11: Lois Donnay Tango Studio in Minneapolis

Minneapolis is our last stop of the tour. We’ll be playing for Lois Donnay’s Tuesday Milonga and staying with Bob Barnes–fellow tango bandleader of Mandragora.