The tango is just as riveting and relevant as the classic bolero, Argentine pianist Raúl DiBlasio says. "Tango allows you to make instrumental arrangements with a lot of versatility, because it never ...

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, ...

“Mi Buenos Aires Querido,” by Carlos Gardel: “Carlos Gardel is the father of tango, the original, the archetype, the éminence grise. There would be no tango without him. He was killed in an airplane ...

With her dance partner and onetime husband, Juan Carlos Copes, she reinvented tango for a global stage, including in the hit ...

Scientists have directly measured what experienced tango dancers often describe as a feeling: when two partners move well ...

Today's casual observer might be forgiven for thinking of Astor Piazzolla simply as an avuncular accordion-wielding avatar of Argentine tango traditionalism. But he called his music "nuevo tango" for ...

Tango instructors Monica Llobet (left) and Richard Council demonstrate a passionate step at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. It’s Valentine's Day week – and let’s face it, Latin American music ...

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 ...

Giving Tuesday may be behind us, but the spirit of giving is still going strong. In Santa Barbara County, year-end contributions remain one of the most meaningful ways to uplift local nonprofits and ...

We don’t need to give you a weather report, but good grief it’s cold outside, and it probably won’t be heating up anytime soon. And when temperatures drop, sometimes you’ve got to make your own heat.

It’s 45 minutes into Queen City Tango’s twice-monthly milonga, and my tango partner and I are nowhere near ready to join the other dancers. In a mirror-lined dance studio hung with paper lanterns at ...