Milonga with Live Music by Trio Tango Norte
Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 6:00 PM EDT
Join Tango Norte for a milonga (social dance) at Artistree! Grab a partner – or just yourself, and come learn the Tango with a lesson starting at 6 pm. Stay for the dance that follows or skip the lesson and just come to dance at 7 pm.

Eva Zimet will teach us a few steps so we can dance the Argentinian style of tango, which is a social and improvisational style of dance. There are many versions of tango, but this style is not choreographed. In other words, a milonga! Trio Tango Norte will provide live music to dance to.

Lesson only $15

Dance only $20

Lesson and dance $30

About Tango Norte
Bob Merrill – Piano

“In live performance, my goal is to find joy in the music. When I find it, everyone else feels it.”

Bob 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 the area musicians.

He 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 theatre projects at the Pomfret School. He has produced albums, jingles, and music for video and film, and has been composer/accompanist 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, Vermont.

He has studied with Fred Haas, Tom McClung, Miro Sprague, and Latin-Grammy winner Gustavo Casenave.

He’s very excited about the new adventure, Tango Norte.

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 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, Vermont 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.