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Saturday, Jan. 27 at 6 p.m.—SOUTH POMFRET— Artistree Community Arts Center, on 2095 Pomfret Road, South Pomfret will present Tango Norte for a milonga (social dance). There will be a tango with a lesson starting at 6 p.m. with guest violinist Jakob Breitbach.
Eva Zimet will teach a few steps of the Argentinian style of tango, which is a social and improvisational style of dance. There are many versions of tango, but the Argentinian style is not choreographed. Trio Tango Norte will provide live music.
Options for the evening include a lesson for $15 or the dance for $20. The lesson and the dance is $30 for the two. There will also be empanadas available for purchase.
About Tango Norte
Bob Merrill, Piano—
“In live performances, my goal is to find joy in the music. When I find it, everyone else feels it,” Merrill said.
Merrill began playing piano when he was 5 years old and has played bass and piano professionally for more than 30 years, spanning a spectrum of styles. He can often be found playing jazz at local venues or playing private engagements with area musicians.
Merrill has been performing in the Upper Connecticut River Valley for more than 20 years. He has accompanied ballet classes for Pacific Northwest Ballet, for Jacques d’Amboise’s National Dance Institute tour of New Hampshire schools, and for Michael Blevin’s artist-in-residence theater projects at the Pomfret School. He has produced albums, jingles, and music for video and film, and he has been the composer and accompanying artist for Dartmouth Film Society’s silent films since 1989. By day, he is a composer, producer, audio engineer, and technical consultant at his studio, Sweet Spot Digital. He grew up in Oregon and now makes his home in South Pomfret.
He has studied with Fred Haas, Tom McClung, Miro Sprague, and Latin Grammy winner Gustavo Casenave.
Thal Aylward, Violin—
A multi talented multi instrumentalist, Thal is also a multi genre specialist. He plays English Country Dance, Western Swing, Straight Ahead Rock, and Straight-Ahead Jazz, as well as being a serious classical violinist and violist.
He has been a pillar in Carlos Ocasio’s Frydaddy, plays with the Stone Cold Roosters, not to mention numerous contradances with some of the finest players around.
Peter Concilio, Bass—
The founder and artistic director of the Hartland JazzFest, Peter continues to promote First Fridays at Skunk Hollow Tavern in Hartland, where he performs with local and regional jazz musicians each month.
In 2014, he launched “Silo Jazz” on the third Friday of the month at Silo Distillery in Windsor, where he performed with pianists Fred Haas and Bob Merrill and guitarist Billy Rosen, among others.
More recently, he has joined Tango Norte and looks forward to touring and recording with the quartet in the coming months.
For more information on the event, visit: artistreevt.org.
