Argentinan Festival: Cultura y Pasion

On Sat 21 May, the line-up for the two-day festival of Argentinian music & culture will be:

Guillermo Rozenthuler, Franco Luciani, Cecilia Suarez-Paz & Duettango, with a DJ playing the best Argentinian music until 1am.

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Guillermo Rozenthuler will be opening both nights of the Argentina Fest. The leading icon for Argentina Tango in the UK, in 2003 he founded Rioplatenses, a band dedicated to playing and promoting the folkloric music of Argentina. Mainly drawing on Argentine folklore music as well as Buenos Aires Tango, he also creates his own distinctive take on Brazilian, Mexican and Cuban styles.

Franco Luciani is known for his undeniably impressive harmonica playing, Franco Luciani utilises the harmonica in ways that were previously unknown to the Argentinean Folkore and Tango music world. He has managed to create his own musical style, not only gaining notice by Argentine music aficionados but the contemporary Latin American music scene as well. He also performed with Mercedes Sosa, the "mother of Latin American music" on her last European tour in July 2008 and in many people's eyes is seen as her successor.

Cecilia Suarez Paz and Duettango: Cecilia Suárez Paz has an extensive musical and immersive history in the new and old tango movements. Sometimes called "Tango Royalty," she is the daughter of violinist Fernando Suarez Paz, and singer Beatriz Suarez Paz.

Having tango as a part of her family's heritage for generations, Cecilia Suárez Paz has become the face, or heir, of "New Tango," contemporary and modern Tango music in culture, still adhering to the voice and emotion behind traditional Tango but with an updated sound modern influence.

She will be performing with Duettango, a collaborative project founded by conductor and pianist Filippo Arlia and bandonean player Caesar Chiacchiaretta fuse Argentine tango and Italian spirit. Both have had extensive musical backgrounds studying and playing not only in Italy but worldwide as well.