Last Friday the UruguayLiving staff and dates went to a Nostalgia Night (La Noche de Nostaligia) at a party center at about Kilometer 13 on Ruta 5–it was hosted by one of the major hotels and cost US$50 per person.
Considering the price, the provider and the location, everything should have been first class…
The first thing that was nostalgic was the chicken–it had been frozen and put away when I was still in diapers. The next item on the nostaligia top ten list was the free wine and whiskey–they were both so cheap and nasty that they reminded me of when I was young and poor and actually drank that stuff…
Then there was the music–it was a group doing oldies “a capella” (”without musical accompaniment” for those of you who are musically impaired). I love a capella singing. In the Orthodox Church no musical instruments are allowed except bells and we have many fine a capella choirs–some are so good they have been called “human pipe organs”.
I can say with metaphysical certainty however, that none of those guys were ever in an Orthodox Choir…nor any other respectable choir either.
Their singing was so bad that it was a cross between the sounds made by an alley cat being tortured and the chanting of some middle eastern shouter wearing underwear about 4 sizes too small. Mercifully, our table was next to a very noisy heater, so the racket from it covered up a portion of the caterwauling from the stage.
Despite all that, I am sure many of the people in the audience enjoyed the show–most of them were over 80 and probably couldn’t hear very well anyway…
I am sure Nostaliga Night it is great idea. It is supposed to be a fun time for people of all ages. Maybe next year we will have an experience to remember other than in our nightmares….
Hahahahahaha!!!
Uruguayan aren´t the best singers in the world.
The slaves brought from Africa were drummers, not singers..
Sorry about your bad experience, but I find amusing that you were expecting first or second class singing at a party. Even the best uruguayan singers are pretty bad
How do you like candombe? :)
>>It would have been great if they had an entire candombe band there to drown out the singers.
The Southron
Left by Javier on August 29th, 2007
Hello, this is my first post…Ive been reading this blog for ages so thought I’d say Hi.
$50 seems expensive, couldnt you go to a tango show in BsAs for that?
Could you tell us readers, Southron, what your perspective is on Uruguayas, I’ve read this funny post here;
http://achiletale.blogspot.com/2007/08/chilean-women.html
about Chilenas and they seem to be hated and quite cold lol
Cherz
Left by benuk on September 2nd, 2007