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Virtual activities to celebrate the National Tango Day

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With a wide range of activities that will be carried out virtually, the museums of the City of Buenos Aires will celebrate the National Tango Day, through the Casa Carlos Gardel Museum.

The date coincides with the 130th anniversary of the birth of the Criollo Thrush, Carlos Gardel and the 121 by the conductor Julio de Caro, both occurred on 11 from December. But nevertheless, The proposals will begin from this Saturday and with free access through Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

Saturday 5 from December, the Museum will spread on its social networks, all the works of the open call "My portrait of Gardel", a multiplicity of "Gardeles" in very varied techniques that They will give an account of the validity of the idol and how its iconography continues to be appropriated by artists of all ages in a plural and collaborative tribute.

Later, on Sunday 6 December the audiovisual piece "Gardel Mundial" will be shared with current testimonies from around the world about Gardel. In a few minutes, Tango greetings from China will follow, France, Japan, Uruguay, Colombia, USA, Finland and Argentina. Dancers, singers, writers and broadcasters united by Gardel's passion will also confirm that Gardel is worldwide.

The activities will continue on Monday 7 -to 18-, moment in which the live talk will take place "El Tango still alive", from the Instagram account @museocasagardel with the tango duo Asato-Pais. Cristian Asato (piano) and Ayelén Pais (bandoneón) they have adapted to virtual times, configuring themselves as the new "tango youtubers".

This duo transmits the freshness of youth and at the same time the great professionalism when interpreting with their piano and bandoneon, thus exploring the limits of the genre and the new forms of the music of Buenos Aires.

On Tuesday 8 of (to 18), the discussion table "Tangueras Hoy" will be held, from the Museum's YouTube channel. The talk will be coordinated by Silvia Brunelli (BA heritage) and Vanina Steiner will participate (publishing company, author and cultural manager, director of the Red Ink Magazine), Denise Sciamarella (singer, author and composer, director of the female orchestra SciamarellaTango) and Mariana Docampo (writer, tango teacher, organizer of the International Tango Queer Festival of Buenos Aires).

"Gardel for boys" is an audiovisual production that will be seen on Wednesday 9. More than fifty students from School No. 20 FROM 2 “Rosario Vera Peñaloza” singing a tango from the Gardelian repertoire.

The voices of boys united thanks to technology manage to form a passionate chorus that keeps Gardel's legacy alive.

The museum's official YouTube channel will broadcast on Thursday 10 the collectors meeting "Gardel en la vitrola 2.0", to pay tribute to the Zorzal Criollo listening to his records played on old vitrolas.

This ceremony of collective listening to pasta records that has a tradition in the Casa Carlos Gardel Museum, will have its virtual edition bringing together collectors in Argentina and Portugal simultaneously. They will share some of their treasures and anecdotes, Elena Santillán, Guillermo Elias and Leonardo Paludi under the coordination of the director of the Museum, Marina Canardo.

By last, on Friday 11 a selection of songs from the Gardelian repertoire covered by “Tango a tres banda” will be shared, record of a fragment of a show performed at the Teatro Maipo by the trio made up of three outstanding singers of the new generation of tangueros: Jesus Hidalgo, Hernán Genovese and Esteban Riera, winners each of the "Hugo del Carril Contest".

Accompanied by the trio "Guitarras Gardelianas" they will offer beautiful versions of zambas, valses, milongas and tangos to close this heartfelt tribute by revisiting Gardel's music.

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