Tango Uncorked

Today on the show we welcome back, Norma Silver. We first met Norma on this show back in 2019 and I wanted to bring her back and see how she has been doing these past 5 years. Our friendship has developed quite and bit and it was nice to chat again and get to hear more of her stories. Norma talks a lot about what inspires her, what she looks forward to, and how grateful she is for having tango in her life. At 96 years of age,...

Welcome back after a 5 year hiatus! Today on the show we sit down with long time New Yorker, Mariela Franganillo to chat about the past, present, and future of Tango here in New York City and elsewhere. She welcomes us into her past and her philosophy of dance, teaching, and performing. Recently she has teamed up with Dagny Miller organizing and producing tango events in NYC.

Stay tuned for their upcoming festival here in NYC ...

Hello again everyone, We are happy to be back with a special short episode. We wanted to catch up after 8 months away and see how everyone is doing? What are your holiday plans? How have you been doing since our last episode? We featured music from Pablo Aslan's latest release and you can find that and much more here: avantangorecords.bandcamp.com/album/xmas-tango-project-milonga-edition It was really fun catching up. We d...

For our final weekly episode we were joined by Mario De Camillis. Mario is a dancer, performer, and artist from Buenos Aires. He joined us from his neighborhood of Villa Crespo where he has lived since he was 9 years old. We chatted about his history as a dancer, how he got started who some of his influences are, and some of his favorite things about tango as well. We hope you enjoy the conversation.

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Tonight on the show we were joined by Gabriel Prynn. A native of England, he has been based in Montreal for many years. A fabulous cellist and tango dancer, we had a great time getting to know him more and learn about his history as a musician and dancer. We hope you enjoy the conversation.

Thank you all for listening, calling and being a part of this while we are all apart. We will continue to bring you great shows to keep us ...

Tonight on the show we were joined by Daniel Trenner. If you are dancing tango, or have danced tango, in the US over the last 30 years, Daniel is probably part of the reason why. Daniel spent a good amount of time in the 1980's in Buenos Aires, before it was a tango tourist destination. During that time and after he studied with as many dancers and teachers as he could find. He made a series of over 80 instructional videos wit...

Tonight on the show we have Cecilia Garcia!! Cecilia is a life long dancer, artist, and creator. We had a nice discussion about her path to tango and journey before. She has been one of Ciko and Adam's favorite teachers for many years.  She has a unique ability to articulate how the body works and transmit that to students. It was nice to hear about her process as an artist and dancer and we found it to be very inspiring.

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Tonight we celebrated the END of an ERA! This is our final Wednesday show as we will be reopening classes starting next week.

We will be moving the show to Thursday at 8:30PM!! Tonight we were joined by Cleveland native and musician  Andrew David Minor. He shared some beautiful music he wrote and we chatted about his background in music. Alberto and Micaela also called in to discuss their time together as a professional cou...

Tonight on the show we were joined by singer, musician, songwriter, creator,  Ariel Varnerin. We had a lively conversation and learned a lot about his journey into music and tango. He sang us some beautiful songs accompanied by his guitar playing. You can learn more about him through is FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/arielvarnerin Eleonora Kalganova joined us for a conversation full of laughs. We learned about her...

Tonight on the show we were joined by pianist Andrew Oliver from Portland Oregon. Andrew specializes in Tango, Early Jazz, and Ragtime. We chatted about his time living and playing in London and Europe. The community in Portland as well as how he came to playing tango music after many years playing Jazz. Jesica Cutler and John Miller from Denver Colorado also joined us. We have known them for several years and they are a really...

Tonight on the show we were serenaded by the wonderful voice of  Mark Growden. Mark is the singer / song writer of several songs that we dance to in the alternative room at Tango Cafe which we listened to on the show. Mark also played a few lives pieces for us as well. Matias Facio called in from Berlin. He took a little nap and woke up to chat with us about the early days of his tango journey moving from Patagonia to Buenos ...

Tonight on the show we were joined by Stine Helkjær Engen and Silvia Ceriani. Stine is a bandoneonista from Denmark who has been living and playing in Buenos Aires for over 10 years. She shared her wonderful music and played a very inspiring live piece for us as well. She is involved in numerous creative projects and it was a pleasure to sit and chat and get to know her. Silvia Ceriani also called in from Buenos Aires. Danc...

Tonight on the show we sat down with Fernando Otero.  Fernando is a lifelong musician, who hails from a family of musicians. He opened up with us about his thoughts on writing music, playing music, and also his spiritual journey as a yogi. It was a very fascinating conversation. We also played some of his music throughtout.

https://www.fernandootero.com/ Diego Blanco, formerly of NYC, joined us from Miami where he has been wor...

Tonight on the show we were joined by Maureen and Carlos Urrego.

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Dancers, performers, and teachers based in NOLA, they have been working together since early 2016 and already have a HUGE presence in the US tango community. We learned about their early days working together, growing as a couple, and some other funny stories. Juan Villareal serenaded us with his beautiful singing, (toward the en...

Tonight on the show we celebrated 52 WEEKS of Tango Cafe takeout! For this show tonight we asked 8 of our regular guests / callers to join us for some questions and conversation. We were also joined by a lot of other callers this week as well which was AWESOME!

As usual the conversations veered from very obscure and silly to very deep and thought provoking. Our guests for the show: Carol A. Horowitz Marcelo Gutierrez Jaim...

Tonight on the show, Eran Polat returned and shared some of the NEW MUSIC he has been working on. He even shared a BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL piece. It was great to check in with him. He also taught some music theory toward the beginning. Adriana Salgado Neira and Orlando Reyes Ibarra joined us for our

5 Questions, segment. Based in NYC they have been partnering for over 20 years. We had a TON of questions for them and the conversatio...

EPISODE #??? WOAH Tonight on the show we were joined by Musician, Performer, Arranger,  Pablo Valle from Buenos Aires. He was on the show to share some of the music he performs in his sextet, Pablo Valle Sexteto, and PROMOTE the show he will be in this coming. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27 2021!!

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Nico Mazza and Matias Mono called in for our 5 QUESTIONS Segment. Nico has been a frie...

Tonight on the show Travis Widrick joined us. We caught up and chatted about his summer rebuilding his family farm, learning to be resourceful, and, of course, his tango journey. We also discussed the bridges that tango creates for us into other communities we may otherwise not be able to access. It was a very fun and interesting conversation as usual. Maria Elena Ybarra joined us as well and we discussed the roles in tango, th...