Our days OFF in December

e@ Harry Paro

Hej på er och hälsningar från Sundom. Vi vill tacka för trevliga
danskvällar med er och er fina dansmusik. Vi fick njuta av två riktigt
prima veckor på Tenerife med fint väder och mycket motion m.m.
Jag bifogar några bilder som jag knäppte vid La Karina.
Varma hälsningar från
Eidi o Harry
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Tack så mytchi å God Jul osv. Clas & Susanne

e@ Klaus Dietzel

Hallo Clas und Susanne
wir waren nun schon das vierte Jahr des öfteren im "La Karina", aber in diesem
Jahr war es für uns am schönsten. Ihr beide habt uns viel Freude gemacht.
Viele Grüsse an den Oberkellner im Hintergrund.

Eure Western- und Countryfreunde aus Deutschland
Klaus und Angelika
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Danke schön ! Clas & Susanne

What a sweetheart

Finnish Tango at La karina

Clas and I are born in Finland.
Our country has a tango culture that goes back to the beginning of the last century.
It's an established variation of the Argentine tango and it was brought to Europe in the 1910s by traveling musicians.
The Finns began to take up the form and write their own tangos in the 1930s.

Two couples from Ostrobothnia, the part of Finland where we come from, visited us the other night and I made a video clip when they were dancing to show you how it looks when the Finns dance tango.
I think it's so beautiful and I just like to watch it again and again.

Please, click on the arrow to watch the video clip.

Susanne

Piece of cake ...

Look what we got the other night.
Thank you Julieen from Belgium.

33 dancers

.. on the floor when Leon from Westerbro Linedancers in
Copenhagen taught a new dance.

Clas

e@ Melli and Rainer

Rainer, Melli, Clas, Susanne, Marina and Renate

Hi, Susanne and Clas !

Now we are back in cold Berlin.

Greetings to Marina and Renate
They are in Tenerife till saturday.

With our best wishes

Melli and Rainer
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Thanx for the many photos from you. We still have warm weather here in Tenerife

Clas & Susanne

Crystal Chandeliers

Leon Reingard taught us one of his dances,
The crystal Chandeliers, yesterday.
He is one of the line dance teachers from
Denmark who now are here on the island.

We were very crowded last night again and
about 100 guests who showed up during the night
had to leave when they couldn't get in.
To be sure you get a table, please, come before 8 o'clock.

Please, click on the arrow to watch the video clip.

Linedance Night at La Karina

It was a lovely night yesterday.
Really many line dancers.
The most of them were from Britain, Denmark and Germany.

It's so lovely when people who never have met before can
come together somewhere abroad and do line dancing.
Line dance connects people!

The Vesterbro line dance club + some line dancers from other
clubs in Denmark, are now here on Tenerife.
They have classes in the daytime and visited La Karina last night.
They will be back again tomorrow night (Thursday).

Please, click on the arrow to watch the video clip.
I have also published an other video clip on my blog.
Click here to watch it.

Susanne

Halloween at La Karina

A line dance group called 'De Rakkers' from Belgium visited us
at La Karina, among other nights, on the Halloween.
They are very good dancers and their input gave
a good "spice" to our show.

I have published one more video clip on my own blog.
Please, click here to watch it.

Thanx to
Benny, Guy, Marleen and Chris.

La Karina 29.10.2009

We are very crowded in the nights now and
I recommend you to come early.
We start playing 8 o'clock and to be sure you get a good
table you need to be there about 7.30.
Many tourists have dinner at La Karina and they return night after
night when they like the meals so much.
That's why the restaurant gets crowded so early.
We play line dance and normal couple dances every
night depending on the audience.

Please, click on the arrow to watch the video clip.

No Monopoly

There might be people who think they should come and see only us and our country nights. There are a lot of entertainers on the island, so I recommend you go visit any venue. Specially if you visit Tenerife for a short time. We do of course have guests, who like us, loves good country music and linedancing and want to return time after time.


Clas

La Karina 22.10.2009

Please, click on the arrow to watch the video clip.

Foolish Act II

There is some idiot bothering Susanne by sending evil comments on her blog. Of course not under his real name, but "Anonymous". The thing is that you can not be "Anonymous" on internet. Your IP number and other ID-sertificates are registered on the blog, e-mail and visitors counters and statistic programs, so there are at least four backups on the entries leading back to the terminal you are using. Thats how internet works.

So dear Jerk: leave my wife alone and get a life. I have never liked people who take a stand with a hood over their head.

The shit!

Clas Holm
Performing musician
La Karina restaurant
Las Americas
Sta Cruz de Tenerife

Foolish Act

We finished last Thursday at Lewinski. The sound equipment was put inside the restaurant for shipping to La Karina the next morning. When I came up there at 11 o' clock, I noticed a lot of water around the speakers and the mixing console and amplifier rack. I showed my friend, who helped me move the gear, my bag with tools and cables filled with water. I checked the roof above for a water leakage, but nothing. We did not have any rain that night either.

Opening the mixing console I found out that somebody have pored water in our sound system. There was a mix of our stuff and speakers/amplifiers belonging to Lewinskis at the same spot. Their things were unharmed, but mine was filled with water.

Being a sound engineer and electrician, I knew how to recover and dry out the equipment before starting it up again. But what if I had been just a plain musician, not knowing how to act in this case. The thing is that the power transformers were covered in water. If I had powered up the amplifiers I probably would have died from an electric shock!

Probably just wanted to ruin our music gear, not thinking of making a human death trap by mixing water and 240 Volts, someone should be happy not to have turned out a murderer.

Clas

Back at La Karina

Our first night at La Karina was a good night.
It was crowded and we had many line dancers.

Please click on the arrow to watch the video clip.

I have published an other video clip from the same night on my blog.
Please, click here if you like to watch it.

Susanne

A Wet Tango .. anyone ?

This is the most popular dance in our home country Finland. The root is Tango of Argentina, but the Finns invented their own dramatic style and steps long time ago ...

Night Snack

The Tenerife Cowboys at Bar Salud ...... Photo: Sue Clere

After some gigs we went to Bar Salud for a night snack. After a while our guest found that out, and started to join us. Some nights we brought in some 10-12 folks and the bar staff looked quit pleased with it. We think it was most healthy to do this. Bar Salud means The Healthy Bar and the Ambulance emergency depot is next door :)

Clas

Now in Las Americas

We perform at LA KARINA Steakhouse at the root of Tenerife Sol Hotel in Playa de Las Americas.

We are here every night except FRIDAY and MONDAY
Music starts after 20.00 and we play to around 23.00.

You can have a nice meal at the restaurant. We have a friendly staff to serve you and you can request songs and dances from our playlist of about 4000 songs. Welcome !

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Reservation, Call:
922 795 272

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