PONTITANGO .“The Tango Ambassadors” Washington DC since 1993 Advocated to promote, entertain tango lessons and events, i.e. business, life style and glamour. A across the years he has given the opportunity to many dancers to join us and experience the beauty of Tango as performers in our cultural “Tango. PONTI curriculum is extensive, i.e.: Wolf Trap, Strathmore, Smithsonian, The World Bank, IADB,[...]

CRISTIAN PEREZ Argentine guitarist/composer and fuses Zamba, Candombe, Chacarera, Tango, and Andean music with Jazz, Classical, and folk music from all over the world, revealing the universality of music. Cristian has a Masters in Music from GMU. Cristian has performed in Bulgaria, China, Bolivia, Canada, South Korea, and Dominican Republic. Site artist CRISTIAN PEREZ Guitarrista / compositor arg[...]

VIVIANA RETTORI & JOSE ROJAS VIVIANA (Misiones, Argentina) and JOSE (Entre Ríos, Argentina) are independent dancers and professors of traditional Argentine dances. In Argentina, they participated from an early age in national Argentine festivals including Cosquín, Laborde, and Jesús María as well as in the United States. VIVIANA RETTORI Y JOSE ROJAS VIVIANA (Misiones, Argentina) y JOS[...]

DARDO VALERIO The singer-songwriter and composer from Salta Argentina, Dardo Valerio, will present ‘’Destino‘’, his first album, on Saturday, May 12 at the 31st Argentine Festival in the USA, starting at 6:00 pm, at the Kenmore auditorium, Arlington, Virginia. Destino is a collection of new and fresh music, full of Argentine folk inspiration as well as a touch of other Latin American influences. [...]

OSCAR MAGALLANES Director & Professor of the Chakaymanta School of Dance and Partner of Blanch Zeinoun. Chakaymanta presents a large and attractive repertoire of dances and songs from around the country in performances in Argentina, Chile, and the United States. They have beautiful dances and songs. Under Magallanes’ direction, the school’s performances have been described as “A sonorous and r[...]

CLAROSCURO Folklore Under the artistic and musical direction of the masters, composers and composers "Yuyo" Montes (1951 - 2015) and Roberto Ternán, Claroscuro offers a particular style that seeks to load his interpretations with emotion, such as the particular accent of the music of Salta or the sensitive melodies of a ballad, shading the color and strength of their voices with different music[...]

MARIELA MARCO The Glamor Diva of Folklore and Argentine Tango. "Recognized as one of the most original representatives of vocal tango music in her generation, which combines a voice of exceptional quality, rigorous vocal technique and deeply personal artistic expression". Mercedes Sosa, Cosquín 93 ' In the USA, she has been performing in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and in the Washington DC are[...]

CHIESA & GONZALEZ is a project originated with songs like “El Cóndor Pasa” exquisitely arranged to two guitars, an emotional homage to Horacio Guaraní with guitars voices and powerful drums and new songs that pretend to be inserted in the songbook of the new Argentine folklore. Both have traveled their own paths and now together they arrive at the Argentine Festival in Washington with a pro[...]

RUBEN GIMENEZ performs colorful melodies from Entre Ríos, showing his province as "a different land". His songs describe the earth and its people in a combination of words and notes committed to love and to women and their beauty, with the constant freshness of innovation. MARCOS PEREYRA is a guitarist, singer, composer, and music producer. He has toured throughout Argentina, and brought his music[...]

CEIBALES OF SALTA traditional Folklore Group - Argentina. Four guitars and bass voices adding violin, flute and charango. In the next edition of the Argentine Festival in Washington will present his 6th CD. Quito Leccese, Adrian Fleita, Matias Diaz and Hernan Miranda Chevez are the members of the Folk Band from Salta. CEIBALES DE SALTA tradicional Folklore Group - Argentina. Cuatro guitarras y [...]