The3o Athens Tango Day «Athens dances and .. listens to Tango» returns to amaze the Athenian audience with a unique oneconcertwith 5 tango orchestras, the "Great Tango Orchestra» itSaturday 21 January 2012! An event – station in the Greek tango scene that revives a musical custom of the golden age of Tango and combines concert, dance shows, tango dance night as well as introductory lessons!

The event starts with free introductory tango lessons from the best schools/teachers in Athens. The courses will be held in the Angelos Sikelianos hall of the "Technopolis" of the Municipality of Athens from 17:00 until 21:00.

The schedule is as follows:
 

17:00-17:50 Felino Tango – Fabian Ballejos & Gina Nikolitsa
17:50-18:40 Gabriel Marino & Elli Karadimou
18:40-19:30 TangoFix – Loukas Balokas & Georgia Proiskou
19:30-20:20 Chorotropio – Dimitris Loukakis & Vicky Damianou
20:20-21:00 myTango – Konos Bagrapoulos & Karachalio silks

The event continues withgreat concert«Great Tango Orchestra» with the unique onesGet rid of it, Evocation, Water and Wine, El duo de dos kai Marios Strofalis Quartet! The orchestras will be accompanied by the above 5 couples of excellent tango teachers/dancers. The concert "Great Tango Orchestra» will take place on21:30 in Polychoros "Anna and Maria Kalouta», Agios Sostis & Timocreontos 6a, New World. Login from 10€.

Theevent ends with a free tango dance night«The Dancers' Milonga» with Djs known tango dancers in the roomSicilian angelof "Technopolis» hisMunicipality of AthensIs the motto of the 16th Spare Parts Bazaar22:30 until 07:00.

We invite you to experience it yourself, completely free, a unique dance experience, meet notable tango teachers and enjoy a unique concert with famous orchestras and dance shows, the Saturday 21 January, in the Angelos Sikelianos hall of "Technopolis" of the Municipality of Athens from 17:00 until 21:00 and from 22:30 until 07:00 and on 21:30 in Polychoros "Anna and Maria Kalouta», Agios Sostis & Timocreontos 6a, New World.

* The Culturenow.gr competition for invitations (21/01/2012) it's for the concertGreat Tango Orchestrawhich will take place in Polychoros “Anna and Maria Kalouta”, in the New World on 21.30 at night.

TheAthens Concert Hallpresents the great Greek performerManoli Mitsiasin two concert-trips toGreek song…
 

"In the beginning was the Word". This rule defined his careerManoli Mitsias, classifying him as an ideal interpreter of the great Greek authors and our leading poets. Countless songs that make up the modern Greek artistic and popular creation – signed by Manos Hadjidaki, Miki Theodorakis, Yannis Markopoulos, Stavros Xarchakos, Municipality of Moutsi, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Stamatis Kraunakis, Luciano Kilaidoni, Ilias Andriopoulos, Christos Leontis et al. in lyrics by Giorgos Seferis, Federico García Lorca, Yannis Ritsou, Nikos Karousou, Nikos Gatsu, Manos Eleftheriou, Lefteris Papadopoulos, Linas Nikolakopoulou et al. – which he himself stamped with the characteristic gift of his voice and his modest personality.

So these, his well-traveled melodic baggageManoli Mitsiasin the Greek universality of the five continents, filled with their precious material 65 of his records, they will open on his stageGreat Music Hall of Athens, theSaturday 21 and on Sunday 22 January, at 8.30 at night, in the Christos Lambrakis Hall, “to minister again through musical expression and speech, concepts that have been running through Greek culture for thousands of years, such as harmony, the aesthetics, measure and beauty". The program of the concert-tour in the Greek pentagram by Manoli Mitsiasis enriched and accompanied by traditional songs of his homeland that the Macedonian performer has included in his repertoire since the beginning of his singing career.

HimManoli Mitsiasaccompany on stage the famous 'Bronze of Goumenissa' by Alexandros Zora, 8member of the Folk Orchestra and the singer Nana Binopoulou. The musicians are playing: Herakles Zakkas (bouzouki, mandolin), Vassilis Drogaris (accordion), George Behlivanoglou (classical guitar), Panagiotis Samaras (acoustic guitar), Alexander Botinis (cello),  Haris Mermigas (contrabass), Yannis Sarikos (drums, crust) and Achilles Vastor (piano) who also signs the orchestration.

Theconcerts ofManoli Mitsiasare part of the Special Appearances Series

 Source : culturenow.gr