Kevin Carrel Footer

Author: KCF

  • Milongueras

    Milongueras

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    I wouldn’t have spent all those hours, all those years in the milongas of Buenos Aires if I weren’t fascinated by milongueras. I am.

  • Harmonica Player

    Harmonica Player

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    I learned to play harmonica on the side of the road while hitchhiking across America — and I haven’t stopped since. My first love was the blues. While living in Buenos Aires, I became immersed in the world of tango and discovered that tango and blues share the same roots of desperation.

  • Photographer

    Photographer

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    Photography for me was literally an exercize in seeing the world — not just seeing it visually but “seeing” it as it is, understanding it. Through the miniscule aperture of a camera lens I have attempted to disrobe the greater world around me.

  • Writer

    Writer

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    Since 2001, Kevin Carrel Footer’s writings are featured each Sunday in the Buenos Aires Herald. What began as short observations about life in Buenos Aires have become over the years an intensely personal and brutally honest account of his life couched in poetry.

  • Angelito del Campo in Buenos Aires: 9 Vidas Band

    Angelito del Campo in Buenos Aires:
    9 Vidas Band

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  • Campo Argentino

    Campo Argentino

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    I have spent a lot of time on friends’ ranches in Argentina or traveling by horseback. It took me a while to appreciate the flatness of it all, but now I have come to love the bare aesthetic of the pampas.

  • The Road is My Home

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    I have felt the home country – the false country – falling behind me. I wonder why I didn’t take to the road sooner. Though, in all fairness, I did head out many times on voyages that lasted three weeks or fifteen years. The difference now is that then I was leaving some place, something…

  • Update! – Concert in Washington, DC

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    We just confirmed a concert at the Argentine Embassy in Washington DC on July 8… just in time to celebrate Argentine Independence Day. Maria Volonte: Blue Tango Tour Embassy of Argentina 1600 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009 Friday, July 8 2011 Doors: 6:00 PM Set: 6:30 PM Tickets: Free Concert An intimate concert…

  • Derek Sivers likes Maria Volonte

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    Derek Sivers has been a guiding light for me in the music business. So I was surprised and pleased to get an email from Derek a few months ago saying that of all the thousands of musicians he met while starting and building CD Baby into the success it is today, Maria Volonte was one…