“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 ...

Listening to tango music enthralls the body into an emotional intensity that blends nostalgia, melancholy and raw passion.

A festival that brings together dancers, musicians and people interested in learning more about Argentine tango music is ...

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 ...

Horacio Salgán, an Argentine tango composer and pianist who helped broaden the vocabulary of his musical form and became one of the genre’s most influential and revered maestros, died Aug. 19 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 ...

It takes two to tango, but a whole lot more to make a festival. For the next two weeks, people will have a chance to dance or simply watch, as area dance instructors celebrate the music and moves of ...

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 ...

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 ...