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 ...

TANGO IS LIFE ‘I’ve been studying tango for about 15 years, but some people have been studying it for a lifetime,’ Sascha Jacobsen said. ‘You can do a deep-dive into the music and traditions, and be ...

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. Since 2012, Laura Camacho has brought a slice of South America to the American ...

Carlos Gardel was one of tango’s — and Argentina’s — great heroes and superstars. The French-Argentine singer, songwriter and composer wrote and recorded hundreds of classic tangos, many with his ...

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 ...

Today's casual observer might be forgiven for thinking of Astor Piazzolla simply as an avuncular accordion-wielding avatar of Argentine tango traditionalism. But he called his music "nuevo tango" for ...

Tango encompasses vocal styles and musical forms as well as dance, and it will arrive — although, happily, not for the first time — in Winston-Salem on Thursday when members of the Lorena Guillen ...