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Jack Tango, Variety Dance Band
With their great voices and musical skill, the fact that they love their work shows. They are fun to listen to, really fun to dance to, and if you hang around between sets, someone is almost sure to come up and say, “You look like you’re having so much fun up there”. Well, that’s no act. Charlie, Matt, and Chris really do have a lot of fun up there. For your next event, book a band that's totally professional, and still a whole lot of fun--Jack Tango. Fast Facts About Jack Tango: Charlie Roth, guitar, harmonica, and lead and harmony singer. Charlie was born in Madison Minnesota, population 1900, to a family of six children. His parents were active in church choir and town theatre and owned part of a Bottling company, which was also a beer wholesale operation. All the children learned to sing with the choir and worked sorting bottles and loading trucks. The Roth’s were known for their singing voices and Charlie sang his first solo with the choir at age 9. At age 12 Charlie received a guitar for Christmas and started singing and playing songs out of a Mel Bay beginner’s guitar book. By age 16 he had learned several songs and even written a few.
By the time Charlie graduated from college Charlie’s second band “The Taxmen” was working as much as 5 nights a week. Charlie had studied music, art, theatre, film, history, anthropology and any class that caught his fancy in college, but most of all he learned the art and craft of making music and making people dance. It was all he wanted to do so he had no choice but to become a full-time working musician. Rock ‘n roll, blues, country, folk, reggae, Cajun/Zydeco--he learned to play it all and people danced and sang along. Now in their 10th year Charlie’s current dance band “Jack Tango” has toured mostly in the Midwest. They signed with the G. L. Berg entertainment company and find all kinds of work playing resorts, fairs, and corporate functions, clubs and weddings. It is good and honest work and it is great fun. It is obvious to everyone how much they enjoy their work. Charlie and his band mates get to make their living spreading joy and happiness through out the land. |
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Jack Tango is a true variety dance band. These guys can play it all from classic rock and roll to country to pop to everything in between from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, right up to today. There is nobody that can take more requests and make sure they provide the music that your audience wants. 
After graduating from high school in 1974, Charlie did a stint in the Air Force and was stationed in the Philippines and Arizona. He came back to Madison and drove a beer truck and joined his first dance band “Buffalo Rose” around Christmas 1978. He met is wife Bev around that time. In 1981 Charlie and Bev moved to St. Cloud Minnesota to attend St. Cloud State University, were married, and eventually had two sons, Dylan and Jonah. 
