08/10/2025
The 2025 CU Tango Music Workshop and Urbana Tango Week marked a culmination of a tremendous amount of effort, dedication, and love. There are many people to thank, and many more that while not named individually contributed in small and large ways to this year’s success and growth.
Musician participants, both new and returning: thank you for bringing a wonderful spirit of learning and creativity. Your desire to immerse yourselves in great music-making and create art made all of this worth the work. Special thanks to our local musicians for continuing to be a welcoming community and inviting all of our visiting musicians to be a part of it.
Julian: thank you for continuing to invest in tango music education in North America and in this community in particular. Your warmth, artistry, and wealth of knowledge set the tone for everything we do.
Rodrigo: thank you for your ever-deepening support for this and many communities of tango musicians. You have such a warm, reassuring way of teaching and collaborating that builds up everyone around you.
Christine: thank you for sharing your deep love of tango and your creative spirit. Your endless energy and innovation pushes all of us to express ourselves in every moment.
Maxi: thank you for mentoring our guitarists and sharing your beautiful artistry. Your intuitive musicianship and passion for art and teaching created an undercurrent of community music-making that was felt by all our participants.
Sumi: thank you for your investment in our participants and in tango music education. Your energy and attentiveness helped everyone, especially our piano and voice participants, get so much out of their experience this year.
Max: thank you for your incredible love for this project and all of our community throughout the last 11+ years. Your infectious enthusiasm and passion inspire all of us, and you have been the biggest advocate both privately and publicly for the work of this workshop and for us and our projects.
Chase: thank you for helping with everything, from playing, luthiering, teaching, and beyond. Your generosity and support make it so easy for others around you to flourish.
Jessie: thank you for always being willing to help out with anything, from designing custom merch, organizing music, and recruiting to talking through problems and taking care of a million tasks throughout the week.
Rob: thank you for taking care of so many of our equipment and venue logistics. Your willingness to make sure everything is taken care of makes the week run so much more smoothly.
Christen: thank you for all your help with the workshop and for helping with Bando M throughout the year to give us the space to focus on bigger projects.
Mom: thank you so much for taking care of the kids through this particularly challenging week. Your support and care for them and us means that we all are able to do our best.
Stuart: thank you for spearheading our jams this year and making them a place that was truly for everyone.
Ben: thank you for providing a great DJ atmosphere for the milonga and for helping us with our mate needs!
Carlota: thank you for being such an enthusiastic supporter of our events, and for helping out with publicity every time.
Robin and Community Center for the Arts: thank you for opening your doors to us year after year and supporting all varieties of music education and culture.
Tamra and Urbana High School: thank you for helping with Urbana Youth Tango Orchestra recruitment and equipment.
Don and Colby String Bass and Margaret: thank you for being so generous with lending us basses year after year.
Kate and Urbana Dance Company, Jonah and Gallery Art Bar, Rose Bowl Tavern, and Carol and The Urbana Free Library: thank you for being pillars of our artistic community and inviting us into your spaces. We are so grateful to be able to share this work and art with each other and with the community, and your work year round makes that possible.
City of Urbana: thank you for your incredible support and belief in our project as we hope to bring more art and community into downtown Urbana.
Heyni: thank you for your support, investment, and passion for this and all of our projects. You are such a dedicated spokesperson and advisor, and we are grateful for your time and energy in growing this project every year.
There are so many others to thank, from our participants who helped out with tasks large and small, to community members near and far-we appreciate each and every one of you. This workshop is possible because of the dedication, passion, and work you all put in.
We’re so proud of all of this work this year, and we can’t wait for more. Hope to see you at the 2026 CU Tango Music Workshop, July 19-25, 2026.
Amanda and En-Chi
