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 ...

Like American jazz, Argentine tango music was born of multicultural interaction. Africans, Europeans and South Americans, thrown together during Argentina’s economic expansion at the turn of the 20th ...

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 ...

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, ...

Tanghetto, a new wave electro-tango dance band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, will perform Saturday, July 7, at Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St., Woodstock. There will be a champagne meet and greet ...

Argentina's Gotan Project pioneered the art of merging traditional folk and pop into electronic dance music. The heart of its sound is Argentina's most beloved musical export: tango. Now, on its new ...

The suave singer is synonymous with tango. Gardel revolutionized the style of music and brought it from the underground dance salons to the... Carlos Gardel: Argentina's Tango Maestro On the streets ...

As strains of tango music float over the dance floor, skirts swish, feet shuffle and couples get ready to step off. The practice session for beginners at the Argentine Tango Lovers of Long Island club ...

Horacio Salgán, an Argentine tango composer and pianist who helped broaden the vocabulary of his musical form and became one of the genre’s most influential and revered maestros, died Aug. 19 in ...

An Argentine couple proved that they have the best tango-dancing chops in the world. A hometown couple triumphed Monday in Argentina's annual tango competition, outdancing pairs from around the world.

While President Obama’s visit to Argentina is scheduled to the minute, on Wednesday night there was room for surprise – and a little tango heat – during a state dinner in downtown Buenos Aires. After ...