Milonga Bohemia : Atlanta

Join us for a monthly Argentine Tango party - Milonga Bohemia
hosted by Tango Bohemia every third Friday of the month at Take Hold Ballroom in Buckhead, Atlanta from 9 pm to 12:30 am * * *

• Complementary wine and refreshments. Floating dance floor.
  Cover - $10. Full-time Students w/ID - $5.

Angel Montero is the resident dj, who knows tango music well and plays excellent traditional tangos. Take Hold Ballroom has a great ambiance as well as the best floating dance floor in town. Come check it out!

* * * As an exception, if dates / time of Milonga Bohemia change, they will be reflected on this page as well as on the Tango_GA Yahoo Group Calendar. Please check with the Calendar for exact dates and times: groups.yahoo.com/group/Tango_GA (if you are not a member of this group yet - you may have to join to get access to the Calendar section).

Live Music Milongas in Atlanta

Every 1st and 3rd Wednesdays during summer months of 2008 there is a Live Music Milonga at Danneman's - a great coffee shop in downtown Atlanta (at the corver of Edgewood and Bulevard). Come and see, as well as listen to Osvaldo Barrios' bandonen. Read more about him below...

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On February 15th we hosted our first Live Music Milonga Bohemia featuring Osvaldo Barrios (bandoneon) and Kristin Wendland (keyboard) in celebration of our first anniversary at Take Hold. We plan to do it again...

Musicians' Bios:

Osvaldo Barrios was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and since the age of 12, has completely dedicated himself to his musical instrument, the Bandoneón. He began his illustrious career performing with well-known tango orchestras in his native Buenos Aires, including the orchestras of Miguel Calo, Mariano Mores, Jorge Caldara and Mario DeMarco. Throughout his career in both Buenos Aires and The United States, Osvaldo Barrios accompanied legendary tango singers such as Libertad Lamarque, Roberto Goyeneche, Ruben Juarez, Guillermo Fernandez, Alberto Podesta, Amelita Baltar, Raul Lavie, Horacio Deval and many others.

In 1967, Barrios immigrated to Los Angeles, and there formed the famous trio: Tres Para El Tango. Here, he laid the foundations for Tango in the American world of the Performing Arts by playing extensively from Catalina Island to San Francisco to Beverly Hills. Barrios also established himself in Hollywood as a musician for the motion picture industry, as a songwriter and performer for movies such as Vibes with Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum. He also recorded with pop singer Amanda Miguel on two of her albums. In his travels within the United States and abroad spreading the worldwide fascination and respect for his native music, he has gained worldwide recognition as one of the foremost Bandoneón artists. His most well-known fan is tango-aficionado, Robert Duval.

In 1989, he established himself in Miami, where he continued to travel locally and abroad. Here, he joined forces with pianist, Ruben Stefano, and later incorporating violinist, Elias Garnik under the name of ‘Tango To Tango.”  From this location he also performed with “Real Tango” on an American tour through various colleges and churches in the Ohio area.  In 2005, he performed with pop music idol, Diego Torres, as the opening act for the MTV Latin Music Awards, combining traditional tango with good old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll.

He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia where he continues to express his exceptional musical talent, traveling to guest star in various tango shows.  From this new home base, he has traveled to Los Angeles to guest star at the Los Angeles International Tango Festival, as well as to various tango shows in North and South Carolina. Osvaldo is currently on board with Emory University, sponsored by Coca Cola Artist-in-Residence program.

His children, Silvia, Dino and Osvaldo, Jr., are producing a new project, “Soul Of Tango” which features Osvaldo and his Bandoneón as the star performer in a lively road show. This is a new musical production with Osvaldo expressing himself as the very “Soul of Tango” on stage, bringing to life the passion and romance of Argentina. Expect to see the show with Osvaldo, guest musicians, tango singers and dancers in a major city near you!

Kristin Wendland, piano

Kristin Wendland arranges, coaches, mentors the students of the Emory Tango Ensemble. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music, where she teaches music theory.  She has designed a course called "Tango: Argentina's Art Form in Body, Mind, and Spirit," which she has taught twice as a Freshman Seminar and twice as a 300-level course on the Summer Study Abroad Program in Buenos Aires.

Kristin Wendland has traveled to Buenos Aries ten times since 2000 to explore and study the world of tango. She received a Fulbright Lecture and Research grant in 2005, which enabled her to teach a music seminar the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires and to pursue her research in the music of Argentine tango for seven months. While in Buenos Aires, she studies tango piano styles and arranging with the composer/pianist Sonia Possetti.

Kristin is currently working on a tango music anthology and making arrangements for the Emory Tango Ensemble. She planned and organized a professional development workshop, “Argentine Tango in Theory and Practice,” through the CMS in conjunction with the Academia Nacionál del Tango in Buenos Aires in July, 2007, and plans are underway for a second workshop to take place the last two weeks of June 2008.