Bandonegro Live in St. Louis

Event Details

There are three ticket options:

• Premium: dance floor-side seating with printed programs and a small surprise. Premium tickets sales end Saturday October 26.

• Table for 9: next-best table with space for 9 guests. Table sales end Thursday October 23. Purchaser must supply the organizers with the names of those at the table prior to 12 pm (noon) on Saturday October 26.

• General admission. Online ticket sales end 11:00 am Sunday October 27. General admission tickets at the door are $50.

Doors will open at 6:45 pm, providing the sound check for the band has been completed. Please be patient.

Bandonegro will play two 40 minute sets, the first starting at about 7:45 pm. We'll have a DJ play music to dance to before and between the live sets.

The Masonic Temple has a beautiful hard wood floor for dancing.

There is ample parking in the Masonic Temple parking lot and the surrounding streets. Please don't use the spaces on the west part of the lot where Webster Groves Police department vehicles are parked.

Bandonegro is a world-class European tango ensemble, founded in 2010, one of the most intriguing and recognizable performers of this musical style. They specialize in both the traditional Argentinean tango and tango nuevo, as well as composing their own pieces, adding the elements of jazz and classical music. Their incredible passion, ideas for music, fresh sound and unique style that is perfect for dancing have won the hearts of audiences all over the world as they are deemed the best tango orchestra of their generation.

At the very onset of their career, when they were 18, Bandonegro won the international competition “PIF Castelfidardo” in Italy, and only a year later, they recorded their first album “Tango Nuevo by Astor Piazzolla”. Since then, they have been constantly intensifying their activities aimed at the promotion of the tango in Poland by performing with numerous projects in prestigious concert halls, philharmonics and musical theatres.

They have presented their music during the tango and jazz festivals in United States, Canada, Argentina (Argentina Tango Salon), Germany (Schleswig Holstein Music Festival), Italy (Caras de Tango Festival), France (Toulouse Tango Festival), Spain (Benidorm Tango Festival), Denmark (Copenhagen Jazz Festival), Switzerland (Oster Tango Festival Basel), Finland (World of Tango Festival) or Portugal (Porto Tango Festival).

Over the last years, Bandonegro has collaborated with many great tango dancers – Clarisa Aragón & Jonathan Saavedra (World Tango Salon Champions), Yanina Muzyka & Emmanuel Casal (Tango Escenario World Champions), Roxana Suarez & Sebastián Achaval (World Tango Salon Championship), Facundo Pinero & Vanesa Villalba, Los Totis, as well as tango vocalists and musicians:Nelson Pino, Roberto Siri and Carlos Roulet.

In 2019, Bandonegro spent five weeks in Buenos Aires, performing in numerous prestigious clubs like Canning and La Viruta, and during the Argentina Tango Salon Festival. They presented a special version of “Gallo Ciego” during the finals of the Buenos Aires Tango World Cup – the largest tango event in the world. As the only Polish artists to perform there so far, they had an opportunity to perform for José Colángelo, the last Troilo orchestra pianist, and Fernando Suárez Paz, a legendary violinist, who was a long-standing member of Astor Piazzola’s quintet.

Bandonegro has already recorded 5 albums published by prestigious Polish record labels: Dux, RecArt or SJRecords. “Tanchestron” (2017), “Tangostoria”(2020) and “Color Aires” (2022) are more traditional, whereas “Tango Nuevo by Astor Piazzolla” (2011) and the original “Hola Astor” (2019) present a fusion of tango and some elements of jazz and rock, which has been deemed revolutionary by music critics.

Bandonegro has received a scholarship from the Mayor of Poznań for their exceptional musical achievements, and a Medal of Young Art, awarded to talented artists from the Wielkopolska Province. They have also been granted an honorary patronage by the embassy of Argentina in Poland.

“In the last 12 months these young Polish gentlemen have become one of the most popular bands performing on the most important milongas and festivals in the whole Europe.”

Tangodanza Magazine (Germany)

“Unique energy and exceptional sound. There are four of them, but it sounds as if it was an orchestra consisting of ten!”

Nito Garcia (legendary Argentinean dancer)

“Your music reaches deep into the heart. I’m happy that I could listen to you!”

Fernando Suarez Paz, Astor Piazzolla’s legendary violinist

“I never expected that Poles could play such a fabulous TANGO! Great respect!”

José Colángelo, the last pianist in Anibal Troilo’s orchestra

“Bandonegro isn’t just a band, it’s a phenomenon on the Polish music scene”

Adam Baruch (JazzForum, PolishJazz)

Bandoneon/Accordion – Michał Główka, Violin – Jakub Czechowicz,
Piano – Marek Dolecki, Double Bass – Marcin Antkowiak

Manager - Mario Giattino

Bandonegro Live in St. Louis is organized locally by St. Louis Gateway Tango, a registered Missouri non-profit organization, operating within Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and whose mission is to educate about tango.

Host or Publisher St. Louis Gateway Tango