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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tango Buenos Aires, a high-energy tango dancing company that has traveled the world and will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Pabst Theater. Bring together the choreography of one world-renowned ...

Historically, the tango has been at least as resistant to change as church music — odd, given that the former was born in the whorehouses of Argentina, the one place you’d think anything goes. Not so, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

We don’t need to give you a weather report, but good grief it’s cold outside, and it probably won’t be heating up anytime soon. And when temperatures drop, sometimes you’ve got to make your own heat.

Tango fusion group Bajofondo keeps the energy in its music through its high-tech, long-distance relationship. Two of its members, drummer Adrian Sosa and producer-composer Gustavo Santaolalla, live in ...

In the last two decades of the 19th century, the dance known as the tango emerges out of the immigrant culture of Argentina's dockside slums. The tango fuses New World, African, and European dance ...