Latin
Tango Passion
How Italian workmen created the tango
Tangos by Carlos Gardel, Aníbal Troilo and Astor Piazzolla Argentine music by Carlos Guastvino, Alberto Ginastera, Ariel Ramirez and Alberto Williams Folkloric music by Jose Bragato and Jorge Cafrune
The Chamber Music Company celebrates the vibrant, dark-hued music of Argentina with a mixed programme of folksong, popular classics and, of course, tango.
Argentina has one of the richest musical heritages of any country in the world – an intoxicating mixture of indigenous, black and European. Until then 1880s the gaucho reigned supreme, and his music filled the great spaces of the pampas. But when Buenos Aires became industrialised a huge workforce of Italian migrants entered the country, and the old traditional country songs and dances were transformed. The result: Tango!!
Latin American Roadshow
The Latin American Roadshow is the UK showcase for Latin American culture. LAR is music, dance, mime, puppetry, painting & food, performed by Latin American and British artists living & working in London and UK. It is a total Latin American experience over a single weekend.
LAR is a platform for Latin American traditional arts, especially those less represented by other festivals and media, and for groundbreaking new partnerships. An inspired mixture of sensational acts, from Chilean performance poetry through the Ritual Scissors Dance of Peru to classical guitar and Sixties style bossa nova.
Artists associated with LAR: Mauricio Venegas & Inventango, Roberto Pla and his Latin Ensemble, guitarist Carlos Bonell, Wilmer Sifontes & Conjunto Sabroso, Tango Siempre & Subitango, mime artist Jose Navarro, aerial artist Giselle Edwards, bossa nova band Corda Bamba, Latin Poets London, chorinho band Caratinga, artist Marianitta Luzzati.
Next LAR planned for 2012 – watch this space.