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Rotterdam Tango Transformations

2011-11-24T03:07:00.000-08:00

2012 will be the year of transformations. A lot of things are changing at the moment and it seems that old patterns are not functional anymore in personal lifes and in society. The Rotterdam tango Transformations festival will look back and forward at the same time. Without the roots of tango we cannot make a vision of what awaits us in the future. So within classical tango festival structures we... will offer new ways and forms in tango like contact tango, Yoga and tango and seminars based on colours of our chackras. It is the first tangofestival in 2012 with a strong focus on the transformations that will take place in 2012 and we will focus on connections and deepened experiences using tango as a container for heart-contact, sharing and personal expression.

The festival also celebrates two main features of Rotterdam : the harbour and brilliant architecture and a lively world music scene and well known tango education at CODARTS. As a result of the latter the festival will have a strong live tangomusic input. During this event the semi finals of the concurso del Ocho will take place in WMDC, in coorperation with CODARTS Rotterdam, section Argentine tango. All international participants of this contest will play live at the festival.

The Urban quality is symbolised by Katendrecht, which has a history like Buenos Aires where sailors gathered in bars and visited illegal prostitution, a melting place of immigrants from different parts of the world. Katendrecht is now an Urban hotspot and develops rapidly, but still with the character and atmosphere from the recent past. The saturday main salon of the festival and tangocafe's will take place here, and the friday salon in CODART's WMDC/Grounds.

The festival is supported by the existing tangoschools in Rotterdam Cuartito Azul and TangoWorks and we work together to make a new atractive initiative in the city with the strongest vibrant artistic scene in the Netherlands at the moment: Rotterdam.
Programme

Friday january 20
Performance by OTRA (Orquesta Tanguera de Rotterdam Integrada por Alumnos)
WMDC / GROUNDS and Tango Salon 20.00 - 01.00
DJ Giggio Giovanni ( Moskow )

Afterpary/marathon 01.00 - 06.00

Saturday january 21
Seminars by ISMAEL LUDMAN
Ezequiel Sanucci & Lydia Muller
and tango & Yoga by Cathrin Alisch
Semi Finals of Concurso del Ocho with 4 international tango ensembles

SALON with Orquesta Tipica Budapest (http://orquestatipicabudapest.com/ )
and tango performances 20.00 - 01.00
De kantine, Theater Walhalla, Katendrecht
( DJ Jens Dorr , Koln )

Afterpary/Marathon 01.00 - 06.00

sunday january 22
seminars & tangocafe with World Music Gathering
14.00 - 23.00

more info coming soon via
www.rotterdamtangotransformations.nl

Introduction of a semi final during ZANGO festival Haarlem september 10

2011-05-27T07:24:00.000-07:00

A Semi final will be introduced for the Concurso in Haarlem during the ZANGO Festival. More info about the assignment, the jury and conditions will be published on this website soon. The info will be also available through the ZANGO WEBSITE. The concurso is currently looking for more parters for semi finals throughout the Netherlands.

Tango music Competition
Doble Ocho organised in 2008 the first Concurso del Ocho, the Ocho. This new tangomusic competition is an initiative of Kunstburo and Tango Centre El Corte and is organised by kunstburo Lucien Lecarme. It started during the fifth Int. tangofestival Doble Ocho in march 2008. The competition is for amateur musicians, music students and semi-professional Argentinian tangomusic groups and musicians worldwide. Concurso del Ocho want's to stimulate the creation of new innovative arrangements of existing compositions, and the development of "new projects ".

Luis Stazo : Una Vida Feliz

2011-04-02T01:55:00.000-07:00

We meet in '9 De Julio', according to owner Vittoria the only real Argentinean restaurant in Berlin. When I arrive Luis and Manuela Stazo are sitting at a small table in the bar section of this thoughtfully decorated restaurant, full of blue and white, and paintings created by Vittoria herself. It is a big contrast to its neighbourhood of grey buildings, gas stations, bed shops and other businesses plastered with sale-signs in NeuKöln, one of the poorer parts of Berlin.

I shake the old hand of the maestro, and notice that his fingers are bent, as if he were continuously holding a bandoneón. After a lifetime of playing this instrument this is a symbolic characteristic of Luis Stazo, one of the old masters of the Guardia Vieja, founder of the world-famous Sexteto Mayor, and still playing with his own Stazo Mayor, albeit only for performances in Europe.

Luis has found a place to rest in Berlin where he shares domestic bliss with his wife Manuela – after a lifetime of constant traveling, hotel rooms, playing and more playing. In response to a question about the differences between his life in Berlin and his life in Buenos Aires, Manuela answers that he actually never saw Buenos Aires very much during the time that he was (in theory) based there, being away on tour almost 11 months of the year.

His musical story starts at the amazingly young age of 9 years old when he already listens to the music of Troilo on the radio. He asks his father whether he can start to learn to play the bandoneón, and his old man decided to send him to a friend, a teacher at the Chopin conservatory just 50 meters away from his home. There he starts to learn piano and music theory, but not the bandoneón. But he soon finds the teacher he needs: José Liberteda. Here his successful life as tango bandoneón player starts, forming Sexteto Mayor in 1955 after working as an arranger for stars like Angel Vargas. Sexteto Mayor conquers the world, and Luis performs in front of stars like Pablo Picasso, Princess Diana, Shirley McClain, Prince Rainier of Monaco and also wins a Grammy award for Latin American Music. A quarrel with the second bandoneón player in the group led to him breaking with the Sexteto and after meeting Manuela in 2001, he got married in 2006, having already been living in Berlin since 2005. Tired of traveling, Luis took a break of 5-6 years from 2001 then formed his trio and later his sexteto Stazo Mayor, exclusively for concerts in Europe.

In my conversation with Luis, he offers the moment that he stopped smoking as being a key point in his life. He describes the life as a musician where friends would always ask him for a cigarette, or he gets a smoke from them. But when in 1986 a doctor discovered some heart problems, he was forced to stop. He then shows me a small sudoko book in his left pocket which is now, as he puts it, his ‘little smoke’

During the Berlin International Tango Festival 2009 I coincidentally booked into the same hotel as Luis Stazo and Alberto Podesta. In the morning, I hear the old gentlemen talk at a table right under my room in the garden of the hotel. Later that afternoon I am witness to the reunion of the two old maestros and Alfredo Marcucci. When Luis sees Alfredo coming out of the taxi, he shouts: ‘My Alfredissimo’ and the old men kiss each other on the cheeks (see video).
For Marcucci, Luis is young Luisissimo, and even now Luis speaks of Alfredissimo with a big smile on his face. Manuela tells me that they were already playing together at the age of eight! Their lives as active musicians divided them, but they kept in touch with regular phone calls. Also, Alfredo Podesta hadn’t seen Luis for more than 10 years when he sees him again in front of Hotel Beethoven in Berlin. That night, they played together on the Berlin Tango Festival, for what turned out to be the last time before the passing away of Marcucci in 2010.
© 2011 Lucien Lecarme

video of Luis Stazo meeting Podesta and Marcucci in Berlin , 2009 during the Int tangofestival Berlin.

to read the complete article, get the latest 2011 Doble Ocho newspaper or download it here

April 22, special Tangobazaar hosts Tangomusic Contest, tangofusion JAM, tangocafe, movies and a tangomarket

2011-03-11T03:32:00.000-08:00

Nijmegen’s Kolpinghuis will host a special ‘Mercado de Tango’ or ‘Tango Bazaar’ on Friday April 22. It’s all about tango that Friday of the Festival, with the Music Contest, the Tango Music Fusion JAM, two special tango movies, a tangocafé with DJ James Bates, and a special room filled with all kinds of tango related stuff. Wine tasting, shoes, clothes, music CDs/DVDs and much more.

The finals of the Tangomusic contest will this year be boosted by the presence of tango maestro Luis Stazo. This will be an honour for us all, and a great opportunity for participating musicians to get some tips from one of the old maestros (founder of Sexteto Mayor); still alive, still playing! Look out for an article about Luis in the 2011 edition of the Doble Ocho festival paper, packed with personal anecdotes from his long and fascinating life.

One of the aims of the Tango Bazaar is to bring as many tango musicians as possible under one roof, so that the 2011 edition of the tango Music Fusion JAM will be packed with talented musicians ready to JAM for the dancers. This JAM is still one of Doble Ocho’s most creative elements, full of improvisation and a unique interaction between musicians and dancers.

info

Latin American mass in museum of Roman art: Misa Criolla in the Valkhof Museum

2011-03-11T03:28:00.000-08:00

The Nijmegen Valkhof Museum is the city's museum of archeology and historical and contemporary art. On Easter Sunday, April 24, the foyer of the museum will play host to an iconic piece of Argentina's cultural heritage: a performance of Ariel Ramirez's 'Misa Creolla'. Set against a stunning backdrop of Roman artefacts from Nijmegen’s distant past, Argentinian music from Creole and Indian sources will fill the Museum. The soloist will be Argentinian tenor Javier Rodríguez, who is specially touring Holland in 2011 to perform this work. He will be supported by the Nijmegen Chamber Choir. The Misa Creolla ('Creole Mass') was originally composed by Ramirez in 1964, the year that the Vatican allowed masses to be written in different languages. It was made famous by the versions by José Carreras and Mercedes Sosa. It comprises 5 short pieces of music, which will be complemented by an extended musical programme consisting of selected tangos and Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco's ‘Romancero Gitano’.

Sunday April 24, Valkhof Museum 14.00 hrs. € 17,50
more info

april 3rd TangoMusic Route in Nijmegen presents live tango dance and music in shops

2011-03-11T03:25:00.000-08:00

After a successful first edition of the Nijmegen Tango Route, on April 3 the centre of Nijmegen will be buzzing with live tango music and dance demos in shops, cafés and public places. More than 20 tango musicians will bring music to 10+ different locations, with a salon featuring Trio Nocturna in the public library and a grand climax in the Kolpinghuis from 17.00 with a free milonga – live music from the Origen tango sextet. Several streets will be transformed into authentic ‘Argentinian barrios de tango’, including the Houtstraat where several shops will be participating (and last year was the location for a spontaneous street milonga with live music). RBT-KAN and Ultimo Tango will be producing a flyer with full details, a map of the Tango Route and a list of all the participants.
video of last year, March 7 : Tango Music Route

Info also on www.vvvnijmegen.nl and www.doble-ocho.com/tangomuziekroute2011.htm

CD presentatie Trio Nocturna in Royal Class Tango

2011-01-22T10:54:00.000-08:00

foto Michel Oehlen.

OP 19 maart presenteert Trio Nocturna haar nieuwe CD XONGO tijdens de Royal Class Salon in Rosmalen. Een album vol eigen composities, dansbare tango's, neergezet met een grote melodische verbeelding en ritmische finesse. Sensueel en subtiel, eigentijds en oorspronkelijk tegelijkertijd.

meer info over de salon & CD presentatie
website van Trio Nocturna
Luister naar enkele nieuwe tracks !

Tango Muziek Concours Concurso del Ocho opdracht voor 2011 : Cara Sucia

2011-01-22T09:30:00.000-08:00

Het 'Concurso Del Ocho ' is een internationaal concours voor tangomuziek in de ruimste zin van het woord en wil amateurmusici, muziekstudenten en semi professionele tangomusici stimuleren tot het maken van nieuwe innovatieve arrangementen van bestaande nummers, nieuwe composities en nieuwe projecten. De 'Concurso del Ocho 'is een jaarlijks concours met elk jaar een nieuwe opdracht.

WAT kun je winnen ? klik hier !

2011 Opdracht
. Voor 2011, is het nummer : 'CARA SUCIA '

Hoe doe je mee ?

Dit zijn de stappen om een deelnemer te worden :
1. Schrijf je in door een mail te sturen naar: tango(add)dds.nl ( voor 1 april 2011)
2. Betaal de 75 euro inschrijfgeld LET OP ; STUDENTEN BETALEN GEEN INSCHRIJFGELD FIndien je wordt uitgenodigd voor de halve finale dan ontvang je 4 tickets voor de vrijdag avond salon twv 20 euro p/stuk.
3. De bladmuziek wordt opgestuurd naar de deelnemers of is te downloaden van deze site
4. Deelnemers maken een opname van hun nieuwe arrangement en sturen die digitaal op naar de organisatie NB Voor 1 april 2011
5. De finalisten worden uitgenodigd voor de finale op vrijdag 22 april 2011
6. NB Tangomuziek studenten en semi-professionele tango musici ( die verdienen 50% of meer van hun inkomen uit optredens ed ) spelen tijdens de finale Cara Sucia EN ook een eigen compositie !
7. Voor de 'Concurso del Ocho '2011 editie hebben weer diverse Europese podia hun interesse getoond de winnaar uit te nodigen. Overeenkomsten zijn gesloten met tangofestival BERLIN ( 9-13 juni), Int. Tangofestival tango Alchemie in Prague (16-19 juni), café Ada in Wuppertal, Duitsland en Holland De Toonzaal in Den Bosch. ( zie ook voorwaarden ) natuurlijk speelt de winnaar ook op de vrijdag avond salon van Doble Ocho waar de officiele Concurso Trofee wordt uitgereikt ( sponsored by El Corte.
8. Los van de eerste prijs introducereert het concurso ook de aanmoedigingsprijs voor amateur musici. Deze werd vorig jaar gewonnen door NORTENOS.

meer info hier

FAQ

Is er een aparte competitie voor echte amateurs ?
Neen, amateurs en semi profs zitten samen in de semi finale en finale, afhankelijk van de hoeveelheid inschrijvingen en de kwaliteit van de inschrijvingen

Is er altijd een semi finale en finale ?
Dit is afhankelijk van de hoeveelheid inschrijvingen en de kwaliteit van de inschrijvingen. Indien er 8 goed inschrijvingen zijn wordt er een semi finale georganiseerd

Wat is een semi prof op tangomuziek gebied ?
Volgens de voorwaarden, punt 4 , is een semi prof : Deze groep verdient meer dan 50 % inkomsten uit muziekbeoefening, maar is nog niet 'doorgebroken ', Dit is af te meten aan de hoeveelheid concerten per jaar en waar deze concerten plaatsvinden.

Wordt ik altijd uitgenodigd voor de (semi) finale als ik meedoe ?
Neen, dit is echt afhankelijk van de kwaliteit van je arragement en vooral de uitvoering daarvan, er volgt een eerste selectie hierop nog voor de (semi)finales

Mag iemand buiten de groep het arrangement maken ?
Ja dat mag, maar een groep die het zelf doet zal in het voordeel zijn. De uitvoering is een belangrijkere factor dan het zelf arrangeren

Tango Music Contest Concurso del Ocho new challenge : Cara Sucia

2011-01-22T09:06:00.000-08:00

The competition 'Concurso del Ocho ' is for amateur musicians, music students and semi-professional Argentinian tangomusic groups and musicians worldwide. Concurso del Ocho want's to stimulate the creation of new innovative arrangements of existing compositions, and the development of "new projects ".

What can you win ? click here

2011 Assignment
Participants make a new arrangement of an excisting composition
For 2011, the new assignment is 'CARA SUCIA

How to participate?

These are the steps of becoming a participant :

1. Subscribe to this music competition by sending an email to tango(add)dds.nl ( before April 1 2011)
2.pay 75 euro sunbscription fee NOTE ; STUDENTS DON'T PAY THE ENTRY FEE ! For this money, they receive 4 tickets for the fridaynight salon of the festival.
3. The music score will be send to the participants
4. Participants make a recording on CD or digital of their arrangement played live and they have to send this to the organisation before april 1st
5. The finalists will be invited to participate in the final on friday april 22, 2011
6. NEW tango music Students and semi-profs will have to play Cara Sucia AND a home made composition during the finals !
7. For the 2011 edition several podia in Europe have again given the intention to invite the winner of the competition. Deals have been made with tangofestival BERLIN in may !, Int. Tangofestival tango Alchemie in Prague (june), café Ada in Wuppertal, Germany and in Holland De Toonzaal in Den Bosch. ( see rules ) Ofcourse the winner will also perform on the friday night salon of the Doble Ocho festival and the official Concurso trofee, both sponsored by El Corte.
8. Next to the main prize we introduce the music encouragement prize for amature musicians
(this prize is for NON Conservatorium Students or semi-Profs) Last year won by NORTENOS !!

find all the info and prices here :
http://www.doble-ocho.com/concurso/concurso88-eng.htm

CONCERT NARCOTANGO IN PARADISO 8 january

2011-01-07T02:29:00.000-08:00

Narcotango, o.l.v. Carlos Libedinsky, werd in 2009 genomineerd voor zowel de Latin Grammy Award ('best tango album') als de Carlos Gardel Award ('best electronic album'). De laatste, vierde cd 'Limanueva' kwam uit in 2010 en was aanleiding voor een nieuwe wereldtoernee. Ook deze cd is genomineerd voor de Latin Grammy Award, van 2010. Neo-tango of Tango Nuevo is de verzamelnaam voor allerlei hedendaagse vormen van tango; muzikanten die vanuit hun eigen muziekstijlen een nieuw soort tangomuziek ontwikkelen.

De groep bestaat uit: Carlos Libedinsky - bandoneon, Fernando del Castillo - drums, percussie, samplers, Marcelo Toth - gitaar, basgitaar, samplers, Mariano Castro - piano, keyboards, basgitaar, samplers.

Als 'surprise-act' Miss Flora Gattina. Zij bereikte met haar paaldans-tango-act de finale van Holland's Got Talent 2010. Tangosalon vóór, tijdens en na afloop van het concert, tot 23.30 uur, met dj El Chino.

Concert met zit- en staanplaatsen.

Van 19.00 tot 20.00 Workshop NeoTango o.l.v. Karin Venverloo & Jelle de Vries. Deelname E. 10,00 p/p. Aanmelden: info@tangotalks.com.

Afterparty in Studio De Wit 24.00 - 3.00, info: www.tangotalks.com

video Miss Flora Gattina dancing on Tanghetto LIVE during Doble Ocho 2010

Brachen Siedlung Tangoshow & Salon3 oktober Arnhem

2010-09-20T02:09:00.000-07:00

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In the context of the programme of Ruhr as Cultural Capital 2010, Doble Ocho persents a tangoproduction on three different locations in Holland and Germany in September & October. This special production is realized through a cooperation between German and Dutch tangodancers. On all three locations there will be a possibility to dance after the performance.

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Auf dem Kulturfestival Brachen-Siedlung präsentieren Arnheim und Nimwegen das Beste und Interessanteste, was die Gelderländische Grenzregion auf dem Gebiet von Kunst und Kultur zu bieten hat. Das Brachlandfestival findet an vier Wochenenden statt; das erste Wochenende in Nimwegen, danach zwei Wochenenden in Duisburg und abschließend ein Wochenende in Arnheim.

Uber die tango show„Verbindung“ ist das Leitmotiv im argentinischen Tango. Eine ausgezeichnete Metaphor für eine niederländisch-deutsche Zusammenarbeit. In dieser Vorstellung bewegt man sich gemeinsam, tauscht sich aus und werden die Grenzen von Sprache und Tanz erkundet. Nach der Vorstellung ist die Bühne frei für alle Tangueros und Tangueras aus den Niederlanden und Deutschland. Ein Tango DJ legt auf und es darf getanzt werden!

- Arnhem 3 oktober
tangoshow : 14.40 - 15.00
tangosalon 15.00 - 17.00
Locatie: Meijnerswijk 5
NEXT show & salon Duisburg Landschaftspark 26 sept
15.00 - 18.00 free entrance
Arnhem, 3 october 15.00 - 18.00 Meinerswijk

www.doble-ocho.com/brachensiedlung.htm

Orquesta Tipica Ciudad Baigon extra concert in Eindhoven 10-10-10

2010-09-19T04:07:00.000-07:00

Ciudad Baigon

21st century. A new generation. A need slowly seeping through. The concept of Tradition starts to work no longer as a mirror, but as a bridge towards the unexplored. This formula brought about real team work, which forged the Typical Tango Orchestra: a formation responsible for The Golden Age of Tango Music. Henceforward, the task was to perceive the new society and to produce accordingly. Also, to explore urban folklore and arrive at two mandatory instances: to create the nonexistent and to boost what was already in existence, in the pursuit of excellence. To discover that social language in constant distortion; the same language that meanders generating new forms.

To discover the intangible logic which hangs to every breeze. And as a consequence, our first request: Permiso (Excuse me) - the first Tango composed by Ciudad Baigón : our opening gesture; and as an aftermath, our first album Ciudad Baigón. Then came the strategies to inaugurate new audiences; to perform street tango in Buenos Aires (with a piano on the sidewalk, literally!) Soon after that came our first encounter with the lands of origin: twelve musicians experiencing their initiation rites around Europe: Paris, Prague, Berlin, Milan, Zürich.

And on return, the big question: what..s going on with Tango today? And the answer opens up new projects: the era of rush without a substance must come to an end. We must find the pillars of tradition but ignore traditionalism; and generate concept. Integrate. Investigate the city..s past history. And then, the breakthrough: Destierro –our second album; and the same idea lives on in new tango after tango. We find out who we are; we arrange tango masterpieces, challenging the established culture; we celebrate each revival.

And then, we revisit them over and over again.Origin of western music, finishing line after over a century of blending Europe and America. And from then on, the last rung (rather the first of our extended, new phase): to conceive a new space for this current, this generation; to inaugurate the Ciudad Baigón nights. To develop this concept and impregnate it with life. In short, to conjugate Tango in the present tense.

start salon 17.00
start concert : about 19.00
entrance : 5 euro
Location : Scala, Eindhoven, Kanaalstraat 6

Tipo Tango Eindhoven
website
info on myspace

Tangosalon en optreden tijdens Nijmeegs Uitfestival 10-12 september

2010-09-09T03:49:00.000-07:00

Doble Ocho presenteert een tangodansproductie met vier dansparen uit Nederland en Duitsland tijdens het Nijmeegse Uitfestival 10-12 sept A.S. In het kader van Brachen Siedlung - een rondreizend Kunst- en Cultuur Festival - zal er om 15.00 uur een tango optreden plaatsvinden in het Hunnerpark (achter het Valkhofmuseum) met aansluitend rond 15.30 een gratis tangosalon.

Optreden: 15.00 - 15.20 uur
Salon: 15.30 - 17.30 uur
Toegang is gratis

Voor meer informatie, locatie, volledige programma: klik hier

Doble Ocho presents a tangoproduction with four dancecouples from Holland and Germany during the Uitfestival in Nijmegen. In the context of Brachen Siedlung - a traveling cultural festival - there will be a tangoperformance with an open air tangosalon afterwards. The performance will start at 15.00h in the Hunnerpark (behind the Valkhof Museum).

Performance: 15.00 - 15.20 uur
Salon: 15.30 - 17.30 uur
Free entry

More information: click here

EN LAS SOMBRAS, multi media Tango show at the Castle Amerongen

2010-09-02T02:42:00.000-07:00

On 16 September 2010 tango dancer Christiane Palha and (on special invitation) tango dancer Esteban Moreno will present at Castle Amerongen (the Netherlands) a special tribute to tango music and dance, titled: EN LAS SOMBRAS.
This special evening will be the start of a new bimonthly tango tradition at the recently restored castle.
The special combination of music, dance and film offers a highly esthetical and involving story, highlighting the passionate essence of the tango. Guided by the captivating music of amongst others Astor Piazzolla the traditional mystery and improvisations of the tango are shown. The live video projections are inspired by the Argentine poem ‘EN LAS SOMBRAS’ (Manuel Meaños, 1936).
Dancers Christiane Palha and Esteban Moreno combine in cooperation with Gustavo Beytelmann, Andre Heuvelman, Santiago Cimadevilla, Micha Molthoff and video maker Altin Kaftira their artistic qualities, resulting in an evening of synergy and serendipity. With her beauty, history, nature and style Castle Amerongen with her premises offers the perfect location for this special event.

LINEUP:

Dance:
Christiane Palha (Brasil)
Esteban Moreno (Argentina)

Musicians:
Gustavo Beytelmann : piano
Andre Heuvelman : trumpet
Santiago Cimadevilla : bandoneon
Micha Molthoff : violin

website : click here

Doble Ocho presents in september 2010: a Tangoproduction during Ruhr 2010 Cultural programme

2010-08-22T06:14:00.000-07:00

In the context of the programme of Ruhr as Cultural Capital 2010, Doble Ocho persents a tangoproduction on three different locations in Holland and Germany in September. This special production is realized through a cooperation between German and Dutch tangodancers. On all three locations there will be a possibility to dance after the performance. For more information: click here

Nocturna in Café Ada

2010-08-22T06:09:00.000-07:00

After several shows in Holland and playing at the Berlin tangofestival, Nocturnos, winner of the Concurso del Ocho 2010, will play at Café Ada in Wuppertal on the 4th of September. The concert starts at 20.30 and afterwards there’s a open-ended milonga. The entrance fee is 8 euros (incl. milonga) For more information concerning the group and music of Nocturna:click here and the programme in ADA, click here

VIDEO Nocturna plays in Int. Tangofestival Berlin 2010

Norteños in the Toonzaal

2010-08-22T06:05:00.000-07:00

On the 2nd of October Norteños plays at the Toonzaal in Den Bosch. This tango-ensemble has strongly evolved after winning the Concurso del Ocho encouragement prize. The ensemble has been extended with new, enthousiastic musicians and built out their repetoire. Inspired by the first vocal tango’s (the tango canciones) from the years ’20 till ’50, they will play their beautiful oeuvre to listen and dance to at the opening of the tangoseason in Musiccentre De Toonzaal.
view the flyer

Nocturna wins Doble Ocho Concurso

2010-04-07T02:36:00.000-07:00

foto: Michel Oehlen order photos of doble ocho from Michel Oehlen here

Trio Tango Nocturna won the 3rd Concurso del Ocho, the international Tango Music Competition held in Nijmegen on march 12th. The Encouragement price was given to NORTENOS.

Nocturna was immediately invited by a delegation of Cafe Ada from Wuppertahl to perform there later this year, and also the INTERNATIONAL TANGOFESTIVAL BERLIN send Hauke Juranek to invite the Trio Nocturna. As result of a coorperation with these international festivals, the winner has the oppertunity to play on these festivals when the organisation agrees and when the winner fits in the festival programme. Also negociations with the Sitges festival may lead to a performance in Spain later in july.

Nocturna will perform on the openingnight of the Berlin festival on may 19th/ See their website here

Nocturna (‘of the night’) is the title of a fast milonga from the Argentinean tango repertoire. The music of Trio Nocturna is in an original way based on this repertoire. The trio consists of Charlotte Dupuis (voice, violin) Mirek Walton (guitar, piano) and Boris Franz (double bass). The repertoire of Trio Nocturna includes new arrangements of tango classics (e.g. of A. Piazzolla en S. Piana) and contemporary compositions by Mirek and Boris. The diversity of influences is audible on the debut album of the trio: Milonga del norte (February 2009). The members of the trio graduated from various conservatories and each has a diverse musical backround. Their strong musical connection comes forward in poetic, quite dance-able, joyous and melancholic tangomusic.

go to the Nocturna website here

Juan Carlos Caceres in Nijmegen, march 13

2010-01-26T12:07:00.000-08:00

CONCERT
SATURDAY MARCH 13

JUAN CARLOS CACERES
Murga Argentina

place : Mirror Tent Centre Nijmegen ( Koningsplein)
admission : 15 euro
time : start concert 20.30

Possessed by a strong magnetic tellurism, Cáceres was always to be found within the limits of the hurricane’s eye. He arrived in Paris – was it mere chance? – in May 1968. He was not looking for a beach under the cobblestones, but he found one. In Buenos Aires, where he was born, he had been the factotum of the Existentialist Scene. Student of Fine Arts during day time, trombonist at night, agitator, a force of nature, he became the attraction of the mythic Cueva de Passarato, a jazz club and epicentre of revolutionary trends. There converged beatniks, upper class chicks and future Maoist guerrillas, often combined in a single individual.

Cáceres, a tsunami of magma and champagne, was the man in charge. Until one day he answered the calling. In Paris he played with the artist Marie Laforêt, founded the bands Malon and Gotan, painted, produced shows, taught History of Art and did research on the roots of the River Plate’s music. Today he still lectures on the subject, but, above all, he composes and sings, with a lion’s voice, the most relevant pieces that mark the rebirth of tango, candombe, murga and milonga. Caceres is inspired, impetuous, passionate and fiery at this. This youngster, born in the 40s, is the reference for creators in and out of Argentina and Uruguay. The River Plate, the widest river in the world, separate these two countries, that once were one. Cáceres drinks these rhythms that Cáceres brings from the past, to move the present and point to the future.

Modernism is found in the beginnings.

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Tanghetto Concert & Tanguerilla VJ show at Doble Ocho 2010

2010-01-26T11:59:00.000-08:00

For the 2010 Fusion Night we present one of the best Venues of Nijmegen, a very special location that is hard to get in Nijmegen: the Waalzaal of the Nijmegen theatre just adjacent to the Keizer Karel square. This venue seems to be made for tango with a brilliant dancefloor and fashionable design. It is the perfect place for the first full live concert of a tangoband on the thursday of Doble Ocho history: TANGHETTO. They will play danceable sets and a lot of stuff from their new album. This is not only the result of their recognition and popularity in Europe and the rest of the world, but also in Argentina. The concert is supported by VJ visuals on stage. But not only on stage.

VOLKER MARSSCHAUSSEN will present his TANGUERILLA experience at Doble Ocho Fusion night 2010. The tanguerilla merges lights, music and roomfilling, interactive videoprojections with up to 6 projectors at max. 40m screens to an immersive audiovisual tango production. The tanguerilla is far away from being an exhausting art event, it has preserved the melancholical essence of the tango flavored with contemporary musical ingredients hosted by DJ-VJ Volker.

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DIVERSI-TREE

2010-01-10T14:38:00.000-08:00

3D Animation about the project 'DIVERSI-TREE', a social community LIGHT Artwork in the centre of Nijmegen from 12-14 march 2010, celebrating the 200 years excistence of the Republic of Argentine. Hands of Participants will be scanned and projected into the DIVERSI-tree that will virtually grow on the font wall of the LUX building in Nijmegen. The 1 euro fee for each participant will be directed to children street programme in Buenos Aires. The Art work will have it;s climax and end on sunday march 14 with an impressive Light Show covering the whole front of the LUX building.

Nijmegen starts new year in tango style

2010-01-06T14:14:00.001-08:00

The new-year's reception of the city of Nijmegen was presented with the theme ; It takes 2 to tango ! Slowly but surely, the tango becomes more well known in Nijmegen to the general audience (it is already for more than 20 years very well known in the tango world) due to the Doble Ocho Tangofestival and this is supported by the city of Nijmegen, that recognizes the fact that Tango has also an economic value for the city of Nijmegen with the many national and international visitors to tango El Corte, Doble Ocho, and other initiatives.

Tangodancers made a little show on the main stage where Major Thom de Graaf held his newyears speach. Quinteto Tango Extremo played also on stage making the link to the Doble Ocho tangofestival in Nijmegen that will take place from march 17-21, with the kick off on march 17 with this Quinteto Tango Extremo and their theatre tour : Carnaval de Buenos Aires: mixture of Tango, Jazz and film ! On the main stage, on music by GOTAN PROJECT, the Artemiev duo performed their famous Tango trapeze act high above the heads of the spectators, and after this show, the Best Citizen of Nijmegen of 2009 was presented and honoured.
Tango Extremo and the dancers on the main stage

After the main presentations, the crowd headed for the drinks and the snacks and a tango salon started in another room, again with Live music from quinteto Tango Extremo. More than 30 couples crowded the floor and the room was filled with dancers and spectators.

3rd Tango Music Contest 'Concurso del Ocho' is open for registration

2009-11-11T14:14:00.000-08:00

Finals : march 19 in Nijmegen during the Doble Ocho festival

New : Winner will play at the Doble Ocho festival on march 19, but also will be invited to Sitges tangofestival( Spain), Berlin Tangofestival, café Ada (Wuppertal) and other venues (conditions aply, see the concurso website)

This music contest is for amateur musicians, music students and semi-professional (tango)music groups and musicians worldwide. Concurso del Ocho want's to stimulate the creation of new innovative arrangements of existing compositions.

The participants are invited to re-arrange the song 'Buenos Aires'. (Music : Di Sarli , lyrics : Roberto Florio, Text :Manuel Romero) This song is chosen in reference of the 200 year celebrations of the existence of the Republic of Argentina in 2010. Music Score can be found here

Main Objectives
The concurso want's to stimulate and discover new musical talent and offer a podium for this talent and possibilities for a breakthrough in the professional circuit. Also the Concurso want's to be a meeting place for musicians worldwide, podium programmers, festival directors and music labels and of course tangodance and music lovers. With the professional jury the Concurso stands for quality and realises a selection in tango groups and musicians.

Jury 2009 Competition
- Dhr. Wim Warman
Piano player, Composer, teacher and trainee coordinator CODARTS Rotterdam
Pianist with Sexteto Canyengue in ’96
- Mr. Robert Schmidt
Pianist, initiated several tango groups in Berlijn such as Tango REAL and Sabor a Tango
- Mrs. Marie Cécile Moerdijk
Ethnomusicologist, Singer, Actress, Author // jury member for various competitions like the Elisabeth Concours
- Mr. Lukas Groen Composer and Conductor
- Ms. Maria José Ortiz Singer, guest teacher Rotterdam Conservatorium

New: For the 2010 edition several podia in Europe have given the intention to invite the winner of the competition. Deals have been made with Int. Tangofestival Sitges in Spain (july), café Ada in Wuppertal, Germany and in Holland De Toonzaal in Den Bosch. ( see rules )
New: Next to the main price we introduce the music stimulation price for amature musicians
(this price is for NON Conservatorium Students or semi-Profs)

Maria Fernandez and Norman Peplov, winners talent price 2009

more information :
http://www.doble-ocho.com/concurso/concurso88-eng.htm
tango@dds.nl

Tango on Unesco World Heritage list

2009-10-05T02:58:00.000-07:00

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Tango was declared part of the world's cultural heritage by the United Nations on Wednesday and granted the international seal of approval Argentina and Uruguay have long sought for the dramatic dance and its sensual moves.

The 24 members of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee of Intangible Heritage granted the tango dance and its music protected cultural status at its meeting in Abu Dhabi.

The designation may make Argentina and Uruguay, which both claim to be tango's birthplace, eligible to receive financial assistance from a specialized fund for safeguarding cultural traditions. It will also help both governments justify using public funds to preserve their most famous export after to beef.

"We are very proud," Hernan Lombardi, the minister of culture of the autonomous city of Buenos Aires told the Associated Press on the phone from the Emirates' capital. "We hope this decision will help spread the tradition of tango all over the world."

foto : Lucien Lecarme
Tango emerged as a dance style in the late 1800s in the suburbs of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, Uruguay. It is popular in Europe, Japan and the United States. The recent spike in tango's popularity throughout the world is in part attributed to the Broadway hit "Forever Tango" and TV's "Dancing With the Stars."

"Tango is a feeling that can be danced, and that feeling of course is passion," Lombardi told the AP on Wednesday.

The popular image — willowy, spike-heeled women spinning, kicking and lunging across the floor in the arms of tuxedo-clad men — is known as show tango. The kind danced in milongas, or tango dance halls, is more waltzlike, but equally sensual.

Argentina and Uruguay have long been embroiled in a clash over the birthplace of the great tango crooner Carlos Gardel. They kicked aside their differences last year in a joint effort to persuade UNESCO to list tango among UNESCO's traditions worth safeguarding for humanity.

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International tangofestival Buenos Aires honours Pugliese

2009-08-13T04:29:00.000-07:00

The Tango Festival is a multitudinous celebration of the genre in all its varieties, and the driving force of a series of activities whose influence stretches throughout the year: the encouragement to the creation of new works, the recovery and value enhancement of the genre’s heritage, the stimulus to artistic excellence, the fostering of stylistic diversity and culture consumption, and the promotion of creative industries of the field.

The 7th Tango Festival strengthens those historical lines and establishes itself as the main showcase of the tango activity, a place where the big names of the genre and the new generations can talk freely.

Highlights
( august 15 ) Pugliese honoured
This Saturday from 8pm the stage of the Teatro Avenida will be honoured with the “Pugliese Night,” a tribute to the legendary pianist and composer, a key figure of the Argentine popular music of the 20th century. The event will gather several of the great musicians who performed with him in the different periods of the orchestra led by the unforgettable Osvaldo.

Tango dance competition
The Dance Championship is the celebration that establishes Buenos Aires as a mecca for tango dancers from all over the world. This event will choose the best dancers in the categories “Salon Tango”, which stresses the social aspect of the tango dance as a typical porteño practice, and “Stage Tango”, which aims to enrich the dance from a choreographic point of view related to the performance as a show.

Throughout the Championship, the audience will also enjoy milongas, exhibitions, free theme classes, dance shows and Works in Progress of the most prestigious companies. The spirit of the great party is already sensed.

( august 16 ) Electro tango
Tanghetto & San Telmo Lounge
The electronic touch of the milongas of the city turns into a multidisciplinary party, attended by electronic tango ensembles, dJs and dancers. The soundtrack of Buenos Aires in the 21st century.
25 agust
NARCOTANGO & OTROS AIRES

Cantadores de Tipica

In the forties, tango experienced a unique dynamism: the balance between the singer’s performance and the role of the conductor. It was a society where the artistic credits were distributed in equal parts. Singers were musically reassured by the ideas of the conductor, and thus were an equally important member of the orchestra and achieved great success, while the audience welcomed this harmonious match. The show Cantores de Típica recreates that historical moment through the singable repertoire from those days, which has been specially transcribed for the festival. The figures of the show are Alberto Podestá, Juan Carlos Godoy, Rubén Cané, Osvaldo Ribó and Lalo Martel, who will be recreating their hits with the orchestras of Miguel Caló, Pedro Laurenz, Alfredo De Angelis, Ricardo Tanturi and Angel D’Agostino. This time with a ten-musician orchestra, the audience will have once again have the opportunity to listen live to Percal, by Podestá; Papel Picado, by Ribó; Muchacho, by Cané; and Godoy and Martel will be recalling their greatest hits with De Angelis. Gabriel Soria, the author of the idea together with Cecilia Orrillo, will be hosting the show.
Sunday 16, 9pm - Teatro Avenida

22 august

HOracio Ferrer

Horacio Ferrer’s friends from four decades of appearances in the country and abroad will be singing and playing at this show whereby the whole city thanks the great lyricist for his devotion and poetry. Ever since his collection of poems Romancero Canyengue, in 1967, Horacio Ferrer stirred up the poetics of tango with his aesthetics and lyrics. He was summoned by Astor Piazzolla and later by Salgán, Tarantino, Stamponi, Garello and Aznavour, among others. He wrote Chiquilín de Bachín, La Bicicleta Blanca, Milonga del Trovador, Soy un Circo, Buenos Aires Es tu Fiesta, Renaceré, Balada para un Loco, Balada para mi Muerte, Fábula para Gardel and many more classics. His Operita (tango opera) María de Buenos Aires, premiered in 1968, is the most worldwide performed Argentine play. He gave birth to a unique style of reciting with a music accompaniment, appearing throughout Europe, the Americas and the East. Ferrer has authored over thirty books of poems and history, where his work as a researcher of the history of tango is on equal footing to his work as a poet. In 1990 he founded the Academia Nacional del Tango (Tango National Academy), with its seminars, archives and international museum, plus all the corresponding academies in the rest of the country and abroad. Medal of Honour from the University of Paris, La Sorbonne, Professor Honoris Causa from the Universidad del Salvador, Doctor Honoris Causa from the Instituto Universitario de Bellas Artes, awarded by the Festival de San Remo, Fondo Nacional de las Artes and Sociedad de Autores y Compositores.

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Buenos Aires Declares a Swine Flu Emergency

2009-07-01T03:25:00.000-07:00

BUENOS AIRES -- The Argentine capital city, hit hard by the H1N1 flu strain, commonly known as swine flu, declared a health emergency and said it will add two weeks to school holidays in July. Argentina's Health Ministry has reported 26 swine flu deaths in the country, but local press reports indicate the toll is higher and rising, as the Southern Hemisphere winter bites hard.

Argentina ranks third in terms of confirmed swine flu deaths, behind the U.S. and Mexico, according to data from the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

The emergency declaration gives Buenos Aires city health authorities expanded power to cut through red tape to buy medical supplies or to take other measures they deem necessary. Buenos Aires officials said they would add two additional weeks, starting next Monday, to schools' winter vacations, which had previously been scheduled to start July 20 and run to the end of the month.

"I ask kids to stay in their houses and avoid large groups of people to avoid contagion," said Mayor Mauricio Macri. Authorities from surrounding, separately governed Buenos Aires province said they too were imposing the emergency measures.

The announcement in the capital came one day after federal Health Minister Graciela Ocana resigned, under fire for the government's handling of swine flu and a previous outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever. Argentine news reports said Ms. Ocana had recommended postponing midterm elections, but was overruled. The elections took place Sunday, and many poll workers donned surgical masks. Analysts said the swine flu problem, hitting the nation on the heels of the dengue outbreak, has laid bare inadequacies of the national health system, which has fallen victim to the country's recurrent economic crises.
Matt Mofett ( Wall street Journal )

Farewell to Pina Bausch, the dangerous magician of modern dance

2009-06-30T21:44:00.000-07:00

Beautiful and strange, tragic yet hopeful, Pina Bausch's creations entranced the audience. The news of her death is terribly sad – and a challenge for dance-makers.
Anger and danger ... The Rite of Spring at Sadler's Wells in 2008. Photograph: Tristram Kenton
You can count on one hand the number of modern-dance-makers who have changed the landscape – and Pina Bausch was one of them. Even though she never created a style that could be taught in the classroom, as Martha Graham or Merce Cunningham did, her influence went far and deep. It's now impossible to enumerate the hundreds of works heavily indebted to her unique brand of dance theatre, trying to imitate Bausch's surreal voyages into memory, pleasure and pain. Even those who hated her productions never forgot them.

Bausch believed passionately in choreography but her works were not primarily about dance. She wove her material out of movement, speech, theatrical imagery and music, often starting out with no more than a feeling. She worked closely with her dancers, drawing on their own fantasies and experiences; in her darkest works, Bausch was famously accused by New Yorker critic Arlene Croce for indulging in a "pornography of pain". Not only did her productions feature brutally explicit confessionals, with the dancers spewing out shocking revelations of misery, hatred or desire, some of the choreography was so angry and dangerous that the performers seemed quite literally at risk of damaging themselves.

It was a formula that many choreographers imitated, but few came even close to achieving. There was a combination of terror, beauty, strangeness and even bawdy comedy in the worlds that she and her designers invented, from The Rite of Spring, in which the floor of the stage was covered in dark peat, to Nelken, where it was carpeted with carnations. In Victor, 20ft walls of mud flanked the dancers, so that they appeared like a lost tribe unearthed in an archaeological dig. It was the monumental magic of Bausch's productions that inspired and won assorted devoted followers including stage directors such as David Alden and film directors such as Federico Fellini and Pedro Almodóvar.

The first time Bausch and her company performed in London, back in 1984, audiences felt they had never seen anything like it. (Some wished they hadn't; every night, half the theatre walked out.) But she became a cult. Fans travelled the world, following their favourite productions. Dancers queued up to audition for her company. And while Bausch's most recent productions may have lacked the intransigent vision of her greatest works, they never lost the capacity to amaze and entrance.

Her last performance in London was a double bill of early work, The Rite of Spring and Café Müller, which drew on Bausch's childhood memories of her parents' boarding house in Solingen, north Germany. It was a performance that I was meant to be reviewing on the night. But sitting at my computer, still reeling from the savage dread and ecstasy that had been generated in Rite, still haunted by the indefinable mix of tragedy and hopefulness in Café Müller, I kept forgetting the ticking of the clock. I kept forgetting to write.

For the world of dance, news of Bausch's premature death is a terrible sadness. It's also a terrible challenge. Many of her productions have been recorded for video, but that's not the same as seeing them live. The urgent task for her colleagues and her dancers is to ensure that at least some of them survive for the theatre too.
Judith Mackrell
The Guardian

Al Di Meola explores tango's Italian roots

2009-06-29T03:24:00.000-07:00

As a precocious teenager, Al Di Meola cut his musical teeth playing guitar with Chick Corea's pioneering electric band Return to Forever, which he joined in 1974. The instrumental quartet created a potent and propulsive mix out of rock, Latin music, and jazz, and the guitarist's debut with the group, Where Have I Known You Before, quickly became one of the classics of fusion. Di Meola performed with RTF for a couple of years, then created his own group, writing tunes inspired by Corea's multifaceted approach.

“Of the three fusion groups that started the movement—Return to Forever, Mahavishnu [Orchestra], and Weather Report—thanks to Chick I think we were the strongest compositionally,” says Di Meola, reached in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he was born and raised. “Playing strong and challenging instrumental pieces really helped form the growth period for my own way of composing.”

But in time Di Meola came to realize that fusion just wasn't moving him. “The music didn't hit my heart,” he says. “It didn't bring me to the depths of the feelings I might get from certain classical music, or what I experienced when I first heard Astor Piazzolla.”

Di Meola met the late Argentine master of nuevo tango when both were touring Japan in 1985. “Everyone in his group was very warm. It was like meeting long-lost friends or my Italian relatives. His dates and mine often coincided. We kept talking and hanging out, and developed a strong friendship. Piazzolla's music was so emotionally wide-ranging and at the same time technically difficult and challenging. He promised to send some charts and a piece to do my own thing with.”

Di Meola recorded “Tango Suite” with the first edition of World Sinfonia, the band he formed to take his original music in more of an acoustic, global, and soulful direction, and to explore the new possibilities opened up for him by Piazzolla. “World Sinfonia primarily plays my own compositions, but I can't picture ever not doing some Piazzolla, because it's so close to me.”

The two artists found much in common. Both had parents who emigrated from Italy, and as a boy Piazzolla spent seven years in New York. The Argentine master revealed something his compatriots would rather keep quiet.

“Piazzolla told me tango originated in Napoli [Naples] and at first had nothing to do with Argentina, though it developed there. That resonated strongly with me because the connection is very profound—and here I am now with two Italians in World Sinfonia. Our music is a combination of jazz improvisation and many different Latin rhythms, which we syncopate. That distinguishes it from other renditions of tango. It has all that I always liked most in fusion but on a much wider palette.”

Al Di Meola's World Sinfonia plays the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts on Monday (June 29).

written By Tony Montague
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Tango Pianists Rotterdam CODARTS appreciated !

2009-06-29T02:52:00.000-07:00

Maria Martinova en Barbara Varrassi graduated from CODARTS

These 2 fine tango musicians have graduated from the Rotterdam Conservatory, section Argentine Tango ( CODARTS )

Maria Martinova
Maria Martinova

(Info about Maria from the website www.otra-rotterdam.nl:)
Born in Varna, Bulgaria, Maria began playing the piano at the age of seven, inspired by a rich heritage of musicians and artists in her family. She completed her early training at the Varna School of Music and Arts, finishing with the highest distinction prior to being accepted at the Bulgarian National Conservatory. Her studies there were interrupted after only two years by an invitation to attend the Juilliard School in New York City, where she was accepted as a recipient of the Vladimir Horowitz Scholarship. At Juilliard she studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Joseph Kalichstein, as well as Felix Galimir, Albert Fuller and Samuel Sanders. Maria holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Juilliard and a Master of Music degree from the Royal Academy of Music, where she was a student of Hamish Milne and won the Foundation and the Leverhulme Awards. She also taught on behalf of the Royal Academy of Music for several years.

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Barbara Varassi Pega
Info about Barbara in Dutch from the website www.otra-rotterdam.nl :
Bárbara Varassi Pega (Argentinië) volgde haar opleiding piano in Argentinië en aan het conservatorium van Milaan te Italië. Ze specialiseerde zich in de Argentijnse tango onder leiding van de maestro J. Martinez Lo Re. Ze toerde door heel Europa en Zuid-Amerika met vele verschillende groepen, o.a. met de International Company "Buenos Aires Tango".

http://www.myspace.com/barbaratangotinto

Podesta meets Luiz Stazo and Marcucci in Berlin Tangofestival 2009

2009-06-05T05:32:00.000-07:00

photo: Lucien Lecarme
POR PRIMERA VEZ EN ALEMANIA, ALBERTO PODESTA FUE OVACIONADO EL LUNES PASADO EN SU PRESENTACION CON LA ORQUESTA DE LUIS STAZO, STAZO MAYOR, EN UN CIERRE MEMORABLE DEL FESTIVAL DE BERLIN en el que participo tambien el maestro ALFREDO MARCUCCI como bandoneonista invitado.

Gente de otras ciudades de Alemania llegaron a Berlin para ver al maestro Alberto Podesta, quien llego a Berlin auspiciado por la Direccion de Asuntos Culturales de la Cancilleria Argentina.

Sorprende lo que puede provocarle a otras culturas tan diferentes nuestra musica ciudadana, y mas sorprende derribar el mito que la difulcultad del idioma hace perder el interes en el tango cantado. Este festival demostro lo contrario. El maestro Allbero Podesta es hoy el cantor mas bailado en el mundo entero. Todos los dias, los milongueros de los puntos mas distantes del planeta bailan "Junto a tu corazon", "Percal", "Que falta que me haces", entre tantos otros tangos emblematicos que grabara en los años 40 con la orquestas mas bailadas como las del maestro Carlos Di Sarli, Francini-Pontier y Laurenz, entre otros . Estos tangos fuerona algunos de los 10 temas que el maestros Podesta canto en el Tamgp Festival Berlin 2009.

Ovacionado, homenajeado con grandes muestras de cariño, Alberto Podesta desplego su estilo de CANTOR de tango junto a los grandes maestros Luis Stazo y Alfredo Marcucci con quienes se reencontro despues de tantos años. Luis Stazo (uno de los fundadores del Sexteto Mayor junto al gran Pepe Libertella, quien actua permanentemente en Europa junto a su sexteto Stazo Mayor) y el bandoneonsita argentino Alfredo Marcucci (quien reside en Bruselas desde hace 50 años).

Aqui van dos videos domesticos ya levantados a Youtube y algunas fotos de este encuentro, incluso una del maestro Podesta con el LP que le llevo de regalo a su gran amigo Luis Stazo, un disco que grabara con direccion y arreglos de Stazo en setiembre de 1970.

Estuvo presente el embajador argentino en Alemania, Sr. Guillermo Nielsen junto a su esposa y Maria Laura De Rosa, Agregada Cultural.

Tambien se adjuntan algunas fotos de este encuentro.

Ya casi a punto de cumolir sus 85 años y sus 70 con el tango, cuando comenzaba como cantor de la Orquesta de Miguel Calo a los 15 años, la vida le da una vuelta muy feliz a su carrera al permitirle llegar a escenarios tan distantes y disfrutar del cariño de un publico que demostro saber perfectamnte de quien se trataba y que lo bailan y lo escuchan en Hamburgo, Amsterdam y Berlin (como lo demostro la gente que llego de esas ciudades cercanas).

Maria Alejandra Podesta
Management & Prensa
Cel. 15 5103 5288

Alberto Podesta meets Stazo Mayor after 10 years in Berlin for the Tangofestival. During the concert of Stazo Mayor, also Alfredo Marcucci will play in the orchestra. It became a night not to be forgotten quickly. Podesta is equivalent of 70 years of living tango history, with own compositions like Percal and well known songs like Nada. During the concert Podesta gave his very best to sing Percal for the enthousiastic Berlin festival crowd, supported by the bandoneons of Luiz Stazo and Marcucci. Earlier that afternoon Stazo embraced Podesta after 10 years again in front of their hotel in Berlin. They made a record together in the 50's and Podesta brought the original record to Berlin (see photo ).
Who knows where whe have the rare opportunity to see these maestro;s perform again ?
Lucien Lecarme

photo: Lucien Lecarme

Wereldomroep Special about the Tango-culture in the Netherlands

2009-05-17T05:33:00.000-07:00

El tango es un producto de exportación rioplatense que se vende en lugares tan remotos como Estambul, Berlín, Milán, Toronto o Japón. Otro de los destinos fijos de sus músicos, con una abultada age...

Impression about the force and influence of tango ( music ) culture in Europe, and specially Holland. Impressions of the Tango Music Concurso during the Doble Ocho festival with winner Arrastre tango, interviews with Jorge Fautaurus (tango teacher) and Julian Parelta (Astillero tango).

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Tango Music News - May - July 2009

2009-05-17T05:26:00.000-07:00

source :
Marίa José Ortiz Management & Productions
www.patchamama.org
Artist on tour: www.marjoproductions.eu
News: http://stichtingpatchamama.blogspot.com/

- Guitarras Tango in Belgium
date and place: May 16th 2009,20.30 hrs. Ambers, Belgium
web: Zuiderpershuis www.zuiderpershuis.be
Guitarras Tango will performance with the famous Cuarteto Cedron from Buenos Aires at Zuiderpershuis. They will present their first Cd ´Flor De Lino´ , www.myspace.com/guitarrastango

- Trio Quasimodo, Cd Release `Amsterdam´ in Buenos Aires
date and place: June 2nd,21.30 hrs. Torquato Tasso, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
web: www.torquatotasso.com.ar
Cd release in Buenos Aires ´Quasimodo Trio´ CD ´Amsterdam´. This cd was produced by Marjo Productions, Patchamama Foundation (NL) and Fundacion Rojo (Argentina)and recorded in Amsterdam and Ambers during October 2007, with the Tango String Quartett ´Cuarteto Recopado´ directed by Martijn van der Linden. www.myspace.com/quasimodotrio
They will release the Cd ´Amsterdam´and the first Cd of Cuarteto Recopado ´Four, for tango´ www.myspace.com/cuartetorecopado next May 22nd 2010, at the Tropen Theater www.kit.nl in Amsterdam.

- Quinteto Arrastre directed by Elliot Muusses, broadcast in The Netherlands.
date and place: June 14th, from 14hrs-15hrs www.concertzender.nl

Elliot Muusses and Quinteto Arrastre will broadcast live at Concertzender. They were winners of the Second Edition of ´Concurso Doble Ocho´ for new talents. www.myspace.com/elliotmuusses - www.doble-ocho.com -
INTERVIEW with Ellio Muuses, founder of Arrastre Tango
video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vqtpDVrg5w&feature=related
Open booking for 2009-2010

- Astillero, tango de ruptura from Argentina, in North Sea Jazz, July 12th 2009 - www.myspace.com/orquestaastillero
date and place: July 12th 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. North Sea Jazz Festival, stage: Congo zaal , 22.30 - 23.45
web: www.northseajazz.nl
After their fantastic shows during October-November 2008 and April 2009, Astillero will present their new Cd ´Sin Descanso en Bratislava`
Press (NL) http://www.cultuurpodium.nl/2009-04-19/astillero#body

- Los Taitas, Tango Tinto, Narcotango and more at Tango Woche Festival, Zurich, Switzerland.
date and place: July 25th till August 2nd 2009.
web: www.tangowoche.ch/en_index.html
Tangoweek 2009 will take place from Saturday 25th of July to Sunday, the 2nd of August in Zurich. During this time you have the opportunity to attend different dance classes and to meet world-known tango artists from Argentina.
During the 9 days this festival offers everything what any tanguero and tanguera dreams of: workshops with outstanding maestros, open air milonga, marathontango, first-class shows and lots of nice people from all over Europe.

- Open air milonga in Amsterdam Noord, Summer 2009 and more...
the programme to be anounced, http://tolhuistuin.nl/#

-ON SPHINX MUNDIAL FESTIVAL MAY 21
La Sieste du Dromadaire - Karaktervol tangokwartet 17u
La Sieste du Dromadaire brengt hedendaagse tango met eigenzinnige composities. Een uniek tango-ensemble met een bijzondere instrumentale bezetting van electronische gitaar, trompet, viool en bandoneon.
www.myspace.com/lasiestedudromadaire
Santiago Cimadevilla - bandoneon, xylofoon
Ananta Roosens - viool, trompet, trompetviool
Marcos Di Paolo - elektrische gitaar
Joris Vanvinckenroye - contrabas, effecten

Quinteto Arrastre wins Doble Ocho Music Contest

2009-05-13T14:00:00.000-07:00

The winner of the second tango music contest 'Concurso del Ocho 'is the quinteto Árrastre 'founded by guitar player Elliot Muuses. The quinteto played during the Doble Ocho friday night salon after the winner was announced by Mr. Marani, Cultural Attachee from the Ambassy of the Republic of Argentine. They competed earlier that friday april 10 with 2 other finalists, Maria Fernandez and Norman Peplov and the trio Papas Calientes. The Concurso del Ocho is sponsored by dance centre El Corte, and founder Eric Jeurissen handed over the special Concurso award.

The professional Jury was formed by :
- Dhr. Leo Vervelde
Artistic Manager RWMA
Leader & Director Gran Orquesta Tipica OTRA
- Mr. Julián Peralta,
Piano player, Composer, member of Asterillo Tango
- Mr. Lukas Groen
Composer and Conductor
- Ms. Maria Jose Ortiz
Singer, guest teacher Rotterdam Conservatorium

Watch an impression of their performance here

The final performance of Arrastre is filmed by WERELDOMROEP. Is is a special about Argentine Music in Europe/ Netherlands. Also Juan Parelta from ASTILLERO is interviewed in this special. watch it on YOUTUBE

Read an interview with Elliot Muuses, founder of Arrastre, here ( in Dutch )

Elliot Muusses and Quinteto Arrastre will broadcast live at Concertzender

Quinteto Arrastre will also be broadcasted on RADIO in The Netherlands.
date and place: June 14th, from 14hrs-15hrs www.concertzender.nl

Maria Fernandez winner of Prix du Port 2009

2009-05-13T13:52:00.000-07:00

Singer Maria Fernández is winner of the second edition of the Prix du Port, a prestigious music prize for talented students of the Rotterdam Conservatorium 'CODARTS '. Maria won 10.000 euro after a breathtaking final with impressive performances. Director of the Rotterdam harbor enterprise, Mr. Hans Smit handed over the price. During the Doble Ocho Music Competition, Maria had won the encouraging prize with her Piano player Norman Peplov. She will play with him during the Gala dinner of the Antwerp Tango festival end oktober 2009.

Zangeres Maria Fernández is de winnaar van de tweede editie Prix du Port, de prestigieuze prijs voor muzikaal toptalent van het Rotterdams Conservatorium Codarts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Na een zinderende finale met indrukwekkende optredens ontving zij zaterdagavond in het nieuwe Luxor Theater uit handen van Hans Smits, president-directeur van het Havenbedrijf Rotterdam 10.000 euro en een beeld van de Nederlandse kunstenaar Eric Claus. De Your World Port publieksprijs ging naar zangeres Maria João Mendes. Zij ontving een cheque van 2.500 euro.

Maria Fernández nam het tijdens de grootse finale-avond op tegen vier andere Codarts-studenten in een avondvullend programma dat gepresenteerd werd door Sanne Wallis de Vries.

De vakjury bestond uit juryvoorzitter Martijn Sanders, actrice Annet Malherbe, Graham Sheffield (directeur Barbican Centre in London), zangeres Lílian Vieira en cellist Ernst Reijseger. Zij beoordeelden de vijf finalisten op muzikaliteit, vakmanschap, concept en presentatie. Het niveau van alle deelnemers was erg hoog en voor zowel de jury als het publiek was het dan ook een moeilijke keuze.

De winnaar

Maria Fernández (studente aan de Rotterdam World Music Academy) gaf samen met pianist Norman Peplow een zeer persoonlijk optreden. Haar verhalende songs vormden een eerbetoon aan de muziek uit de Zuid-Amerikaanse en Spaanse traditie. Volgens de jury “bleef ze hiermee erg bij zichzelf. Met haar prachtige stem betrok ze het publiek bij haar ontroerende verhaal en was ze in staat om met weinig middelen een zeer mooie performance neer te zetten”.

Prix du Port 2009

Prix du Port is een initiatief van het Havenbedrijf Rotterdam, Codarts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten en het Luxor Theater Rotterdam . De prijs van € 10.000 wordt gesponsord door het Havenbedrijf Rotterdam. Hiermee wil het jong talent aan zich binden en stimuleren tot grootse prestaties.
De Your World Port publieksprijs werd aangeboden door Your World in het kader van Rotterdam Jongerenhoofdstad van Europa. Your World Port is het gezamenlijke initiatief van haven en stad.

Sitges hosts 2 festivals from 2009

2009-05-13T13:12:00.001-07:00

The organisation of the very well known Tangofestival in Sitges have split up and what is left is 2 festivals in the beautifull Spanish Barcelona sattelite city of Sitges. And.... almost at the same time. The 'old 'festival will start the monday july 13 and the NEW festival starts wednesday the 15th. Both end sunday the 19th of July.

The names of the 2 festivals are
1. ( the old one )Tango Sitges Festival Internacional.
2. ( the new one) XVI FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE TANGO DE SITGES 2009

The websites are
1. http://www.tangositges.com/
Line up :
Geraldine Rojas y Ezequiel Paludi
Pilar Álvarez y Claudio Hoffmann
Sabrina y Rubén Veliz
Natalia Vicente y Juan Manuel Nieto
Antonia Barrera y Jorge Pahl
Marion Krauthaker y Enrique Ringa
Diego Cornella
Orquesta HYPERION

and
2. http://www.festivaltangositges.com/
line up

SEBASTIAN ARCE Y MARIANA MONTES
MARIANO "CHICHO" FRUMBOLI Y JUANA SEPULVEDA
ADRIAN VEREDICE Y ALEJANDRA HOBERT
RODRIGO "JOE" CORBATA Y LUCILA CIONCI
DIEGO ESCOBAR Y ANGIE STAUDINGER
ARTURO GOMEZ Y CAROLINA PUJADES

Orquestas / Live Music:
COLOR TANGO de Roberto Álvarez (Buenos Aires)
CONEXIÓN TANGO (Barcelona - Buenos Aires)