Bandoneon International

"Milonga à La Carte"

Come and enjoy a unique TANGO experience (no 2 nights the same!), in the company of Bandoneon Maestro Orlando Dibelo and his protégée, Ruth Rozelaar, where YOU get to choose the music that you want to dance to!

You request your favourite dance tunes from a  selection of 250 titles in the Tango Fakebook series. Your choices will then get woven into tandas, which Orlando and Ruth will play for you LIVE,  A La Parrilla.

(Find your favourite tunes prior to coming to dance by clicking this link)

The full list will also be available on the night.....

Don't know the names of your favourite tunes?~ Don't worry, others will choose for you, or you can tell us what type of music you like (intimate, expressive, rhythmical, lyrical, fast, slow etc.) and we'll choose  pieces that cater for your taste.

Do you find Live Music difficult to dance to? ~ Come and give this one a go! Maestro Orlando has played in the classic Argentine Dance Orchestras that you know and love so much! Scroll down for his biography...

I promise, Maestro Dibelo will charm you with his infectious joy and phenomenal playing. I will do my best to hang onto his 'shirt tails'...

Dates:

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Wales:

June 16th: Swansea
June 17th: Cardiff

DEvon

June 20th: Concert in Totnes (venue tbc)

June 23rd: Ashburton (mus. workshop!)

June 25th : Concert in Ashburton

Bruges (Belgium)

June 28th: @Tango Celebration


Tit liverpool, June 8th

TOTALLY IN TANGO, with Ludo Decreus,  is coming to the UK the weekend of June 7th-9th. This is a double role dance event.

MILONGA À LA CARTE will be part of the Saturday night programme, open only to weekend participants. To sign up for the weekend, follow the link below.  

Warrington, Tea & Tango, June 9th

2-6pm , Croft Village Memorial Hall Mustard Lane, Warrington, WA3 7BQ

Entry: £12

www.teaandtango.co.uk/events

Oswestry, june 15th

5-9pm

Milonga à La Carte will play at Sharon Koch's Milonga!

West Felton Village Hall, Oswestry, SY11 4EH

£20 - pay on the door, no booking needed, just come along!

Swansea June 16th,

2-7pm

Milonga à la Carte will play at Boyd and Rebecca's Lovely garden Milonga. Live music will start around 4pm.

DJ's will be Philippa Castell and Chris Teasdale

Cost: £15 

If it's your first visit to this lovely outdoor Milonga, please contact Boyd on 07934 790093  for the address and directions. There is plenty of parking at the Church car park, see address below (please make a small voluntary contribution to the church for using the car park).

If the weather is bad, we will be at St Paul's Church instead:

St. Paul's Parish Centre, de La Beche Road, Sketty, Swansea SA2 9AR. 


About Orlando dibelo

Orlando Dibelo is considered one of the most important and influential Argentine bandoneonists of his generation. He began studying bandoneon at the age of nine with Eduardo Carpini in Buenos Aires. The teachers Carlos García and Calisto Sallago completed his musical training. As a young man, he performed with Roberto Firpo Jr. with the Cuarteto de Tango de la Vieja Guardia. He also triumphed in the competition "Nace una estrella" of the Argentine television channel 13 with the famous bandoneonist Juan José Mossalini, with whom he played "Adios Nonino" in a bandoneon duet. Astor Piazzolla himself wrote a glowing review of their  performance of his famous tango, congratulating the young artists.
Throughout his extensive career, he has been prolific as an international tango performer. In Argentina, he tours both as a soloist and as a member of the prestigious José Basso Orchestra. He has performed with tango singers such as Amelita Baltar, María Graña, Jorge Casal, Chiqui Pereyra, Silvia del Rio, Alberto Podestá, Alfredo Beluzzi and Héctor de Rosas, and has been a regular guest on Argentine television channels 7, 9 and 11 in Buenos Aires.
In 2001 he moved to Spain, where he performed with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and was invited to join tango groups such as Rayuela Tango, Ibertango and Art Tango Ensemble, among others. He has performed frequently in music festivals in Spain as well as in Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Estonia. From 2003 to 2008 he was the musical director of the prestigious National Tango Festival in the city of Alcantarilla, Murcia. He was the founder and musical director of the tango quintet "Fueye".
He has made numerous recordings, interpreting both tango and popular Argentine music. Artists of the stature of Armando Manzanero and El Cabrero have requested his collaboration on their recordings. He was recently awarded the Cavaion d'Oro prize in Italy, in recognition of his professional career and his contribution to the international diffusion of tango. His musical career appears in the book "El Tango y sus protagonistas", written by Héctor Romay.
Orlando Dibelo combines performances with teaching, being invited to give master classes in workshops dedicated to tango.


About Ruth Rozelaar

Ruth Rozelaar has undergone a self-directed and intensive 5 year long period of study, devoting 3 hours per day to Bandoneon practice, with the focus on playing A La Parrilla, for dancing.

In January 2023, she began studying with Maestro Dibelo.

"I am honoured to be touring with such a  grand maestro. Playing  alongside him, diving deep into the tunes that I know so well from dancing, is an indescribably delicious experience.  Just like dancers, we connect with each other through the music - every time it is new and exquisitely alive."


here's A little taster...

...filmed in Maestro Dibelo's living room