The bandoneon is a type of accordion that has no keyboard, but buttons on both sides. It arrived in Argentina in the mid-19th century from Germany and quickly became an integral part of music for the ...

Tango: a word that dreams up visions of sultry, sensuous music with women in impossibly high heels and macho men in black dancing its embodiment. Sing Tango? Many North Americans haven't even thought ...

Nomad Tango presents three nights of extraordinary tango in celebration of Argentine tango. The shows, in celebration of Nomad tango’s fifth season in Santa Barbara, will be performed on August 3, ...

It's easy to envision tango. Two dancers draped over one another, nose to nose, intertwining legs, quick stepping, spinning, dipping and almost pulsating with unbridled sensuality. It's just about the ...

Tango music has influenced many nations as it travels around the world. Tango My Passion, an episode of the Musical Discoveries series produced by Dr. Monika Krajewska, is a short documentary tracing ...

ARGENTINE singer Sandra Luna is a hard-core tanguero’s delight. Her voice -- strong, passionate, manly -- represents the genre’s macho bravado in all its splendor. “I’m not really into the concept of ...

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 ...

Tango to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with host Scott Yoo and flutist Alice Dade to explore the evolution of composer Astor Piazzolla’s work and the music genre itself as it becomes fused with jazz across ...

Tango music may have its origins in African slave drummers from Uruguay. April 12, 2013— -- If you think it's difficult to drink water while walking, or text while walking, or do anything except ...

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 ...

John Travolta is never one to shy away from the dance floor. Once again, he's reminded us why in Pitbull's new music video for "3 to Tango." By Billboard Staff John Travolta is never one to shy away ...

Most adventures trend toward the usual fantasy, sci-fi and detective genres, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that Tango: The Adventure Game tells a wildly different story based heavily on the ...