DJ Michael Arntz
Saturday, Oct 31st, 2026
5:00 - 9:00 pm
HISTORIC HAUNTED HOUSE
1680 Bryant St. Palo Alto
Doors Open
5:00PM
Milonga w/ DJ Michael Arntz
5:30pm
Live Music, Trio Fantasma & Claudio Ortega
7:00 pm
An enchanting evening of live tango music with a haunting Halloween spirit.
Sascha Jacobsen is a Latin Grammy–nominated bassist, composer, and bandleader, and an active presence in the Bay Area’s Argentine tango community. He founded and leads Los Tangueros del Oeste, whose album Alma Vieja earned a 2022 Latin Grammy nomination for Best Tango Album. He is also the founder, bassist, and composer of the Musical Art Quintet, a co-founder of Trio Garufa, and the bassist in Trio Tangazo. His music brings together tango’s rich traditions with influences from classical music, jazz, flamenco, and contemporary sounds.
Born in Hong Kong, Crystie Shum began piano lessons at the age of four. In 2017, she fell in love with Argentine tango. Since then, she has studied with renowned maestros including Héctor Del Curto, Pablo Estigarribia, Nicolás Ledesma, Adrián Enríquez, and César Salgán, among others. She performed at the Stowe Tango Music Festival in 2022 and 2023 alongside special guests Víctor Lavallén and Guillermo Rubino. She has also performed in Buenos Aires, Tijuana, and multiple cities throughout Japan. Crystie is an active member of Alex Roitman Tango Ensemble (based in Florida) and Orquesta Tarareando, directed by Sasha Zeyliger (based in the San Francisco Bay Area). In 2024, she founded her own group, Cristal. Outside of music, Crystie works as a social worker and shares her home with three dogs, a parrot, a tortoise, and an iguana.
Keiko Cadby is a violinist active in the Bay Area’s Argentine tango community, performing with Orquesta Típica Tarareando and collaborating with ensembles including the Sumi Lee Collective. With roots in Northern California and Southern Japan, she began playing violin at five and performed at Carnegie Hall by eleven. She studied at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where cellist Antonio Lysy introduced her to Argentine tango. Her international performance experience includes collaborations with Héctor Del Curto, Pablo Estigarribia, the West Coast Tango Ensemble, and the Stowe Tango Music Festival Orchestra, bringing a rich classical foundation and deep tango experience to her playing.
Claudio, born and raised in Buenos Aires, has been bringing the soul of tango to life in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2005, when he founded his ensemble Trío Corazón al Sur, captivating audiences with his heartfelt performances ever since. He has shared the stage with many of tango’s most respected artists and ensembles, including Tangonero Orchestra, Hugo Wainzinger, Trío Garufa, Trío Tangazo, Scott O'Day Trio, Sexteto Cristal, Charles Gorkzynsky's West Coast Ensemble, and pianist-arranger Yazmina Raies, performing everywhere from the Los Angeles Ford Amphitheater to Pacifica’s Mildred Owen Concert Hall, the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, and countless intimate milongas.
Michael Arntz brings over 450 tango events’ worth of experience to the DJ booth, creating uplifting milongas that honor tradition while responding to the dancers’ energy. A tango dancer since 2001 and DJ since 2009, he draws on his background as a musician and DJ across partner dance communities, alongside an extensive Golden Age tango collection. His sets have delighted dancers throughout the Bay Area, Northern California, and London, with appearances at Burning Tango, Portland Valentango, Santa Barbara Encuentro, and San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall.
Saturday, October 31st, 3:00 - 5:00PM
Start your Halloween at the Historic Haunted House before the milonga. Pinot’s Palette brings a 2-hour Paint and Sip to 1680 Bryant St, 3:00 to 5:00 pm. Our artist walks you step by step through “The Boo Canoe”: two ghost friends on a moonlit lake. No experience needed. All painting supplies and mocktails included. Optional light bites from Currysutra. Scary Attire encouraged.
Authentic pu erh prepared by a tea master from Yunnan district in China; preserved and aged in the US
Some dancers and artists at Tea & Tango over the years
Feeling Flow: Hosted at a historic heritage house in Palo Alto, we are inspired to help people experience flow through dance, yoga, meditation, and related arts, and give them basic tools to translate this experience into other areas of life. Flow is a state of awareness where we are completely immersed in what is right in front of us. It is a highly satisfying state that facilitates well-being and growth. Art, in essence, is a form of self-discovery and a connection practice. It is said that the best way to know yourself is through the mirror of relating to others.
Please reach out to us if you are unsure about attending a social dance or one of our other classes or events. We are happy to offer you guidance and coaching on what to expect.
We highly recommend dance shoes or can you dance in socks. We request no street shoes on the dance floor.
No, you are welcome to dance with your partner all evening and enjoy the live music and the atmosphere.
To keep things streamlined we request you to register through this website at least 2 hours before the event. But, come nonetheless, the door pricing may be expensive and in case the event sells out we will have to sadly turn you back, this has happened in the past.
Plenty of free and safe street parking available near Bryant Street
100% refund if requested 2 weeks before the event start. 50% refund if requested 1 week before. No refund, after. However, we will accomodate you in a future event/class.
Our seasonal six week tango series is starting on Halloween Oct 31st. You are welcome to drop-in for the first class!
Lead by Karn Verma & Sara Aleksova
Classes: 2:15 to 3:30 pm & 3:45 to 5:00pm
Join us in the afternoon for six weekends of Tango Foundations I, Tango Foundations III, Intermediate Tango II, and our new Milonga & Vals Foundations II, with a break for Thanksgiving weekend. Explore musicality, connection, and flow, with options for first-time beginners through experienced dancers—no partner needed.
See video below to get a sense of the space and atmosphere. This video features Cristal y Claudio Ortega, a new group, that we launched at Tea & Tango, in fall of 2024 as a conclusion of Live Tango Music by Bay Area Artists project
or email: teacher@feelingflow.org
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