The insider's guide to Argentine Tango in San Francisco and the Bay Area
It’s that time of the year once again. The Argentine Tango USA Official Championships and Festival takes place in San Francisco at the end of March. Now in its third year, this event has grown in both popularity and quality. Andrea Monti and Hugo “Gato” Valdez, two well-respected Argentine Tango Maestros, are responsible for bringing [...]
Bajofondo returns to San Francisco March 19th at Bimbos to present their new album Presente. The album released March 5th marks 11 years since Gustavo Santaolalla and Juan Campodónico conceived the idea of bringing together a collective of Argentine and Uruguayan artists dedicated to creating “contemporary music of the Río de la Plata,” the river [...]
While most of us are in the midst of shopping for the Holidays, Alma del Tango is in the middle of preparing for their next Tango production: “Close Embrace, A Tango Love Story”. The production follows the story of a romance fiction writer who is working on a novel about a woman’s journey through love, [...]
The 2012 San Francisco Tango Marathon has now come and gone, leaving us dancers craving more. The festival started off with a bang at Broadway Studios, a place fondly remembered by veteran tangueros here in San Francisco. The dance floor is on the smaller side for the amount of people that showed up, but it [...]
San Francisco Tango Marathon Starts Friday Night! 400 dancers have already registered and purchased the passes (almost half from out of town). Friday’s venue is at the classic and much loved Broadway Studio with LIVE MUSIC: by Seth Asarnow y Su Sexteto Tipico +1 and DJ Robin Thomas. Saturday starts at 12:30pm with a special [...]
The third annual Antipanico Tango Festival held in in San Francisco’s Mission district not only survived it’s third year but it flourished. So, the headliners, Sebastian and Mariana had to cancel less than a month before the event, but that did not keep the Tango addicts from showing up and the event being enjoyed by [...]
Tonight, Saturday July 21st, is an exciting Tango event benefiting Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center. Ashkenaz, in Berkeley is a very fun events venue presenting awesome concerts, music and dance workshops rooted in traditional cultures from around the world. Ashkenaz supports local and international bands of both established and emerging artists in a “respectful, [...]
This Sunday, June 24th, Orquesta Z performs at the Historic Claremont Hotel for a very special milonga. Orquesta Z is the Bay Area’s newest tango orchestra, founded in 2011 and led by veteran Tanguero, Bendrew Jong. All band members are life-long musicians as well as tango lovers and dancers who wish to share all the [...]
“La Milonga de San Anselmo” will be celebrating their grand opening Friday, May 25! Here is your chance to dance to one of San Francisco’s most popular orchestras at a brand new milonga in Marin! Seth Asarnow y su Sexteto Tipico Their style of playing ranges from the tango orchestras of the 40′s to the [...]
All summer long and well into the fall, San Francisco hosts a series of free outdoor concerts and performance in the heart of the city at Union Square. And that means FREE Tango with Live Music! The inaugural Tango in the Square was last night, and Trio Garufa serenaded us with two sets of beautiful [...]
