Live Music

Our Live Music Program seeks to support the folk music tradition at the heart of tango. We promote community building through music education and live performances, in partnership with professional musicians.

We have cosponsored a tango demo, class, and concert with RO´MEZ3arts (piano and voice), as part of our Older Adults Outreach Program. Our Tango Storytelling Show in February 2020 and 2022 featured live music by Emmanuel Trifilio (bandoneon) and Ramo´n Gonza´lez (guitar). And we’ve also partnered with Emmanuel for prerecorded performances for our Online Seminars in 2020–21.

From 2009 to 2019, Tango Mercurio sponsored a community orchestra of all-volunteer musicians, both professional and nonprofessional. Established by Tango Mercurio founder Sharna Fabiano and dancer/musician Korey Ireland, the orchestra played classic tango music at social tango dances (called milongas) around the Washington, DC region. The orchestra continues to entertain the local dance community independently as the DC Tango Orchestra.