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Chicago Tango Week Festival 2009

Enjoy the festival of Argentine Tango Dance and Music: Chicago Tango WeekSkokie, IL – DoubleTree Hotel and Conference Center Chicago North ShoreTHE 2ND ANNUAL CHICAGO TANGO WEEK WILL TAKE PLACE FROM JULY 1-6; PRESENTING THE FINEST CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ARGENTINE TANGO MAESTROS AND MUSIC BY INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED ELECTROTANGO BAND OTROS AIRES FROM ARGENTINA AT AN OUTDOOR DANCE SUMMERDANCE, GRANT PARK.The DoubleTree Hotel and Conference Center Chicago North Shore is located at 9599 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL 60077Festival packages can be purchased at http://www.RegOnline.com/ctw2009 and the festival website is http://www.ChicagoTangoWeek.com. The organizer can be reached at 312-823-4859.ABOUT THE FESTIVALChicago Tango Week is a festival produced by Tango Éclectique, owner of the ARTango Center in Chicago and held in July each year to facilitate the promotion and development of established and emerging Argentine Tango dancers’ and musicians’ work by building appreciative audiences and increasing the active participation in dance for all ages.Highlights of the festival:- Argentine tango workshops from Thursday, 1 July through Sunday, 6 July- Absolute beginners workshops on three days to make this festival an all inclusive event- Outdoor concert by Otros Aires at the Chicago SummerDance at Grant Park on Thursday, 2 July-The aims of the festival are to:• Increase, enhance, and support Chicago society’s appreciation and experience of Argentine tango as a social dance• Showcase emerging artists and a diverse range of new and unique perspectives in social dancing• Develop new audiences for Argentine Tango music and dance by attracting a broader mix of festival attendees• Make the ballrooms as accessible and family friendly as possible by means of affordable and discounted admission, accessible venues, and hospitality.• Use ARTango Center to make Argentine tango accessible to the public and foster Argentine culture and history.• Students will receive a discount on most festival packages
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Chicago Tango Week and ARTango Center Chicago presents......

Latin Grammy Nominee electrotango band Tanghetto live in Chicago on Thursday, 20 May 2010.

Event times:
Doors open at 7:30
Concert at 8:30
Milonga (Social dancing) from 10:30-2 AM
Prices: $20 online and $25 at the door

17 & up
Buy tickets online: http://www.regonline.com/tanghetto

Styles: tango / electrónica / jazz / world

Website: http://www.tanghetto.com Official

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/tanghetto

http://www.myspace.com/tanghettoacoustic

Official YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TanghettoTV

Buenos Aires based Argentine group formed in 2001. Their innovative sound is a mixture of modern and traditional tango with jazz, electronic and diverse South American influences. The band’s names is inspired in Argentine Diaspora, evoking “a little Argentina” in many Europeans cities.

The “Tanghetto sound” is unique; it's a fusion of diverse sources of inspiration, both contemporary and traditional, that unite with the bandoneon, the nostalgic and characteristic instrument of the traditional tango. Bandoneon takes the singer's role and is surrounded by diverse acoustic instruments and a sonic wall of synths and samplers.

The band was nominated twice for the Latin Grammy Awards and Gardel Award (the argentine equivalent to the Grammy Award).
The band debut album “Emigrante” reached platinum status in Argentina and was nominated “the best instrumental album” . Album “Hybrid Tango” renewed the sound of tango and was nominated as the best tango album.

Tanghetto played in more than 100 cities in 25 countries. Last time Tanghetto visited Chicago was in 2007 for Chicago Tango Week Festival (former Tango Joven).
Most video clips from Tanghetto’s DVD (released in 2006) were on MTV and others music TV stations.
In 2007Tanghetto recorded a BBC Unplugged in London.

TANGHETTO DISCOGRAPHY:

Emigrante (Electrotango)

Released December 2003
Debut album, platinum in Argentina and nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in 2004. Among tango people (dancers or not) and world music enthusiasts is considered a classic. Some notable songs are “Inmigrante”, “El Boulevard”, “Una Llamada” y “Emigrante”. This concept album tells how Argentina began
its history as a country of immigrants, becoming the opposite in recent times.

Hybrid Tango

Released December 2004
This album was nominated also for a
Its creators define it as "cosmopolitan tango". This side project from Tanghetto’s musicians is a fusion of tango with eclectic and diverse elements, such as jazz, electrónica, flamenco, candombe and other latin rhythms Latin Grammy Award, Includes “Barrio Sur”, “Mas de lo Mismo”, “El Deseo” and “Tangocrisis”.

Buenos Aires Remixed

Released October 2005

Live in Buenos Aires

Released July 2006
DVD (NTSC). Full concert (19songs) + videoclips.

El Miedo a la Libertad

Released on 10/02/2008. The album is a winner of the Premio Gardel 2009. Includes 12 songs, 9 of them originals (such as "Buscando Camorra", "El Arte de Amar") and a selection of covers in the band’s style (Eurhythmics’ “Sweet Dreams are Made of This”, a jazz/tango/reggae rendition of Sting’s “Englishman in New York and Hancock’s jazz standard “Cantaloupe Island”. Argentine guitarist Esteban Morgado plays in three songs.

Más Allá del Sur

Released on 26/11/2009 "

The album is a balance between listenable and danceable, acoustic and electronic. This is so far the closest approach to a pure tango language, but the band carries on its innovative quest. Includes “La Milonga”, “Tango Místico”, “Zita” (from Astor
Piazzolla).




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