Stars, Magic…Tango with The Gorczynski Tango Quart

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Date & Time

Thu, Apr 18 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Address (map)

724 E Haley St.

Nomad Tango & Buena Onda & Empanadas Present “Stars, Magic…Tango” An open-air party with live music, dinner, and dancing.

Grammy Award musicians of The Gorczynski Tango Quartet will delight you with the sounds of the new vanguard of Tango & Jazz

Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet

Charles Gorczynski – Bandoneon

Keiko Cadby – Violin

Elyse Weakley – Piano

Sascha Jacobsen – Contrabass

Milonga with live music to traditional tango music plus new music by Nomad’s friend, Sascha Jacobsen

WHEN: Thursday, April 18, 2024. 5:30  – 9:30 p.m.

WHERE: Buena Onda + Empanadas

724 Haley Street, Santa Barbara, 93103

DESCRIPTION:

On April 18th, Nomad Tango in partnership with Buena Onda & Empanadas, roll out our beautiful dance floor to receive The Charles Gorczyinski Quartet, with a crossover from Los Tangueros Del Oeste. Some traditional, some electronic, all tango.

Share food and conversation under the stars. Let your whole soul be taken and dance to this remarkable band’s contemporary, very much alive, music of the heart.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Charles Gorczynski

Minneapolis-based composer and bandoneonist Charles Gorczynski works in contemporary tango, new music, and studio production. He leads the acclaimed modern tango group Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet, and is the director of the Twin Cities Tango Collective.

Charles is a deeply established musician and community organizer with a distinct voice in creative new music, and has also worked with Redwood Tango Ensemble, Tango Sin Fin, Mariano Barreiro Tango Trio, Tango BC Quartet, Alejandro Ziegler Cuarteto, Maxi Larrea Trio, Maldito Tango, Los Tangueros Del Oeste, Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Chorale, Vocal Essence Orchestra Hall, Mason Bates’ Mercury Soul Orchestra, and California Symphony.

Sascha Jacobsen

2022 Latin Grammy-nominated composer, orchestrator, arranger, orchestrator, and bassist, upright and electric. Sashca has performed with Kronos Quartet, Rita Moreno, Hugh Jackman, Martin Short, Mandy Patinkin & Patti LuPone, Marc Shaiman, Bonnie Raitt, Randy Newman, Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth, Andrew Lippa, Eddie Duran,

Fluent in many styles including Jazz, Rock, Funk, Blues, Americana, Argentine Tango, Salsa, Latin Jazz, Classical Music, Sascha’s passion for music and dance has led him to collaborate with great dance groups such as The Flamenco Theatre Company of San Francisco, Tango Fatal with Choreographer Jorge Torres (Forever Tango), The Island Moving Company, San Jose Dance,  and the Chitresh Das Dance Company with Jason Samuels Smith. His arrangement of the Rhapsody in Blue for String Quintet has been sold in more than 15 countries around the world.

Sashcha has performed with Argentine Tango group, Trio Garufa, and founded Los Tangueros del Oeste.

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