2025 CU Tango Music Festival

Name: 2025 CU Tango Music Festival
Start: 2025-04-03T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-06T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Urbana Dance Company

Schedule

Thu, 03 Apr, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Sun, 06 Apr, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Urbana Dance Company | Urbana, IL

Welcome to the 2025 CU Tango Music Festival!
Guest musicians Rodrigo Avalos (bandoneon), Teagan Faran (violin), Heyni Solera (bandoneon) and Maxfield Wollam-Fisher (cello) return to join forces with our local tango orchestra Bandoneon Massacre in a weekend full of tango music and dance. In addition, Daniela Roig and Hernan Prieto light up the dance floor with dance workshops, performances, and private lessons, and DJ Mariano Bejarano makes his Champaign-Urbana debut at the festival milonga.
Preregister and save here: https://www.cutangomusic.org/tickets
Thursday, April 3
CU Tango Music Festival and Boneyard Arts Festival at Krannert Uncorked
5-7 pm
Location: Stage 5 at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana)
Cost: FREE
CU Tango Music and 40North collaborate to kick off both the CU Tango Music Festival and the Boneyard Arts Festival. This special edition of Krannert Uncorked includes performances by Bandoneon Massacre as well as our festival guest artists, featuring their individual solo and duo projects.
Friday, April 4
Festival Concert
8 pm
Location: Urbana Dance Company (122 W Main St, Urbana)
Cost: $25 (at the door)/$20 (preregistration)/$10 (students)
The festival concert features contemporary tango music alongside gems of the Golden Age of tango. Performing music by some of the most prolific names in tango today, including Julián Peralta, Ramiro Boero, and Pablo Jaurena alongside up-and-coming composers and arrangers Rodrigo Avalos, Teagan Faran, Petaló Selser, and Katharina Driessler, our festival guest artist musicians explore the depth and breadth of tango music expression.
Saturday, April 5
Tango Music Workshop for Strings and Bass
3 pm
Location: Community Center for the Arts
Cost: FREE
Are you a string player curious about tango music? Explore the origins of the music of Astor Piazzolla. This free workshop, led by tango musicians Maxfield Wollam-Fisher and Teagan Faran is an introduction to how to make a tango sound like tango. Open to all levels.
This event is co-sponsored by Community Center for the Arts
Tango with Daniela & Hernan
Location: Urbana Dance Company
Cost (per workshop): $35 (at the door)/$30 (preregistration)/$20 (student)
12:45 pm Dance Workshop 1
Ocho cortados, Paradas, Ganchos (Intermediate/advanced)
2:30 pm Dance Workshop 2
Technique (All levels)
4:15 pm Dance Workshop 3
Milonga Musicality (Intermediate/advanced)
Intro to Tango Dance
8 pm
Location: Urbana Dance Company
Cost: FREE
Now that you're hooked on the music, are you curious about the dance? Try this free, low-commitment, judgement-free intro to tango dance class.
Festival Milonga
9 pm
Location: Urbana Dance Company
Cost: $30 (at the door)/$25 (preregistration)/$15 (student, non-dancer)
The festival milonga brings together our guests artists, local tango band Bandoneon Massacre, and Midwest guest musicians for a magical night celebrating the beauty and drama of tango music and dance. The milonga features music from DJ Mariano Bejarano and our 20+-piece festival orquesta as well as a special live-music dance performance from Daniela Roig and Hernan Prieto. You will not want to miss this one-of-a-kind evening in the enchanting ballroom at Urbana Dance Company.
Sunday, May 5
Brunch with Jam and Practice
10 am
Location: Urbana Dance Company
Cost: FREE
Bring your instrument and join our jam, or bring your dance shoes and practices those new moves, or bring a dish to share, or just bring an empty stomach and enjoy a chill Sunday brunch.
Sponsored by:
Urbana Dance Company
Sousa Archives
40 North 88 West
Krannert Uncorked
Community Center for the Arts