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Finns Find Their Feet At Tango Street Festival
For four days this past weekend, visitors to the annual Tangomarkkinat, or Tango Market, listened to old and new tango singers and strutted their stuff in a cordoned-off street in Seinaejoki, some 360 kilometres (222 miles) northwest of Helsinki.
"I am here to listen to the music and to meet people," Paeivi Kuntsi told AFP, enjoying the sunshine at the market square.
After World War II, tango was the rage in Finland, sung and danced at thousands of outdoor dance halls on the shores of its picturesque lakes, peaking in the 1960s.
However the rise of rock'n'roll and pop music in the late 1960s and 1970s saw the tango's popularity take a hit.
But tango, which has its roots in Argentina, made a comeback in the 1980s with the first Tangomarkkinat being held in 1985.
Arto Puisto, visiting the festival for the first time, said: "Tango is the best dance in the world. It is all about feeling and (how) you can be close to another person."
Baby-faced Amadeus Lundberg, 20, who won the tango signing contest final in which he was pitted against five others, said: "All I can say (is) that this must be a dream. I am pinching myself."
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