[Tango-A] SA: Nacional Dia del Bandoneon -- concerts in Buenos Aires

[Janis Kenyon]

The day commemorates the birth of Anibal "Pichuco" Troilo.

Wednesday, July 11
Anibal Arias and Osvaldo Montes
Fundacion La Casa del Tango
Guardia Vieja 4049
21,30 hs.
Entrada 10 pesos
Tel: 4863-0463

Thursday, July 12
Former musicians of Anibal Troilo's orchestra playing original arrangements
Jose Votti, Juan Alsina, Ernesto Baffa, Jose Colangelo, Osvaldo
Berlinghieri, Alcides Rossi, Anibal Arias, Raul Garello, and the singer Nely
Vasquez
Centro Cultural Torquato Tasso
Defensa 1575 (San Telmo)
22,30 hs.
Entrada -  free  (get in line early)
Tel: 4307-6506

Anibal Arias has been playing the guitar since age 4 (and turns 85 on July
20). Although he studied classical guitar, he decided to dedicate himself to
revitalizing Argentine popular music in 1940. Since then, he has
collaborated with many famous tango musicians and singers: Hector Maure,
Jose Libertella, Luis Stazo, Anibal Troilo, Libertad Lamarque, Edmundo
Rivero, Susana Rinaldi, Oscar Alonso, Roberto Goyeneche and Julio Sosa, to
name a few. He also belonged to the Cuarteto de Guitarras de Alberto Ortiz.
He has toured in Brazil, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Holland, the
United States, and Japan. He has received numerous prizes and honors such as
la Orden del Porteno de la Asociación Gardeliana (1985), the Gardel de Oro
del Centro Cultural del Tango (1986) and the Premio Fundacion La Casa del
Tango (1987) where he is its current president.  Since 1980, he has been a
soloist with the Orquesta de Tango de Buenos Aires.  He co-founded the
Escuela de Musica Popular in Buenos Aries, where he teaches the history of
tango and guitar styles.  He is also the Professor of History and Poetics
and guitar at the Conservatorio de Estilos Tangueros "Argentino Galvan" de
la Academia Nacional del Tango.

Osvaldo Montes, bandoneonist, director and arranger was born in 1934 in
Rosario in the Province of Santa Fe. When he arrived in Buenos Aires, he
began his tango career with the group of Raul Bianchi, and he went on to
play in the orchestras of Emilio Orlando, Armando Lacava, Miguel Calo,
Enrique Mario Francini, Atilio Stampone, Leopoldo Federico and Horacio
Salgan.  He toured in the United States with Mariano Mores in 1975.  He
joined the Tango Orchestra of the City of Buenos Aires and later travelled
with Les Trottoirs de Buenos Aires in Paris where he remained for a number
of years, later touring in Europe and the Far East. He then formed a trio
with Norberto Digoraro and Gabriel De Lio. Currently he forms a duo with
Anibal Arias and is head bandoneon professor at the Conservatorio de Estilos
tangueros "Argentino Galvan" of the Academia Nacional del tango.