Like American jazz, Argentine tango music was born of multicultural interaction. Africans, Europeans and South Americans, thrown together during Argentina’s economic expansion at the turn of the 20th ...

Nomad Tango presents three nights of extraordinary tango in celebration of Argentine tango. The shows, in celebration of Nomad tango’s fifth season in Santa Barbara, will be performed on August 3, ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Laura Camacho dreamed of playing tango music since she learned upright bass in ...

Pablo Ziegler performs tonight (April 29) at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Tonight (April 29) the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts goes “beyond tango” to the tango without the ...

World Tango champions Germán Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi will perform at the Lobero Theatre .(Courtesy photo0 UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) will ...

Ástor Piazzolla, the visionary Argentinian composer, band leader and bandoneon virtuoso who created the revolutionary nuevo tango style in the 1950s, is being celebrated around the world today, March ...

The tango is just as riveting and relevant as the classic bolero, Argentine pianist Raúl DiBlasio says. "Tango allows you to make instrumental arrangements with a lot of versatility, because it never ...

Horacio Salgán, an Argentine tango composer and pianist who helped broaden the vocabulary of his musical form and became one of the genre’s most influential and revered maestros, died Aug. 19 in ...

“Mi Buenos Aires Querido,” by Carlos Gardel: “Carlos Gardel is the father of tango, the original, the archetype, the éminence grise. There would be no tango without him. He was killed in an airplane ...

If you go to a milonga, or social dance, to do tango dancing in Buenos Aires, you’ll likely be doing it to live music. In western Massachusetts? No so much. Now, though, Western Mass Tango, which has ...