Austin Texas, officially known as the live music capital of the world is famous for the eclectic and progressive lifestyle of Austin residents. So it comes as no suprise that Austin hosts not one but two tango festivals. This coming June, Austin will be holding its second Fiesta de Tango from June 4-7, 2009.

The festival boasts 75 hours of tango dancing fun with three levels of tango classes, and 6 milongas, one of them an all night one. This year’s tango instructors are going to be Diego Di Falco and Carolina Zokalski , Guillermo Merlo and Fernanda Ghi, and George Furlong and Jairelbhi Furlong all of whom are very prominent names in the tango world.

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They are also very good at selecting the best tango music for every milonga and every lesson. So be ready to show of your tango shoes, the comme il fauts and the neotangos and whatever else you’ve got, as you learn to do the embelishments and the boleos and the fancy turns and 4 great nights of heavy duty tango dancing.

There are full festival passes ($385), three day passes ($295-$320) and day passes ($90 - $150) and separate milonga pasees available online. For more information, schedule of classes/milongas and for more detailed rates and other information check out their website.

Also, there are really cheap airfares available for austin right now (e.g. $205 for a round trip from New york to Austin), on various online air ticket booking sites. Check them out!