Argentinan Festival: Cultura y Pasion feat. Minino Garay

On Sun 22 May, the line-up for the two-day festival of Argentinian music and culture will be:

Guillermo Rozenthuler, Minino Garay, Cecilia Suarez-Paz and Duettango

It is rare when all of these great musicians are able to meet and play together, especially so far away from Argentina.

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.

Minino Garay is perhaps one of the world's most charismatic Jazz Percussionists has ever seen.. Vocalist and percussionist Minino Garay will perform a variety of music influenced by rhythms and folk melodies from South America and India sparingly touched by modern trends such as funk and even rap. He will surely deliver an outstanding performance full of character and while reinterpreting Argentine folk tradition and flavours.

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.