Tango blends together a variety of world music flavors including Eastern European folk styles like polka and mazurka, Spanish flamenco and contradanza, and rhythmic underpinnings from African music.

The Champaign-Urbana area held its third tango music festival last weekend, filled with dance workshops, discussions, concerts and more. At the Community Center for the Arts, four professional string ...

In Act I, Malena dances tango in the old style, feeling confined, longing for freedom. In Act II, Malena breaks free of the ...

Tango music has influenced many nations as it travels around the world. Tango My Passion, an episode of the Musical Discoveries series produced by Dr. Monika Krajewska, is a short documentary ...

Today's Beautiful Music features a violin and marimba performance of Histoire du Tango by violinist Jiweon Moon and marimba player Sun-min Shim.

Nomad Tango is the only organization regularly presenting live tango music in Southern California, and is a vital part of the Santa Barbara art community. Nomadic is the group’s nature as they travel ...

The tango originated in the dance halls of Buenas Aires in the late 19th century and was a well-established and beloved hallmark of Argentinean popular music by the time Piazzolla began his career.

Guadalajara goes for tango music "El Cafe de los Maestros," a documentary about Argentina's glory days of tango music, will open the 23rd edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival ...

Perched on the wooden benches lining a temporary parquet floor in downtown Portland, couples and solo dancers slipped off ...

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 ...

“Le Grand Tango” will be the last concert of the season for ProMusica Minnesota, an organization dedicated to presenting high-quality instrumental music to enrich the southern Minnesota community.