12th Philadelphia Tango Festival La Poesia Del Abrazo

The 12th Philadelphia Tango Festival will take place over Memorial Day Weekend, Friday, May 24 through Monday, May 27, 2024.

This year’s festival will explore the theme
LA POESIA DEL ABRAZO (The Poetry of the Tango Embrace)

The premise of this festival is that, whether or not we speak Spanish, if we invest just a bit of time and effort to explore tango’s poetry, we can enormously enrich our experience of dancing and listening to tango. The festival draws together dancers, musicians, vocalists, poets / lectures, and DJs who will expertly guide us in this exploration.

Festival Maestros
Rocío Lequio & Bruno Tombari (in the U.S. for the first time!)
Los Totis (Christian Marquez & Virginia Gomez)
Felipe Martinez & Ayano Yoneda

Lecturers
Matias Mauricio (in the U.S. for the first time!)
Ayano Yoneda

Live Music
Típica Messiez (2 nights!)
Juan Villarreal & Patricio Noé Crom
Horacio Romo-Pablo Agri-Emiliano Messiez Trio
Eleonora Barletta
Sexteto Fantasma (by livestream from Buenos Aires)

New Music
Since 2023, the Philadelphia Tango Festival produces a new album of tango music for tango social dancing each year. We are very pleased to be working with SEXTETO FANTASMA to produce an album which will be released & presented at the festival!

DJs
Ayano Yoneda
Felipe Martinez
Gabriel Huracán Gaumond
Gustavo Rember
Ignacio S. Ondartz
Kerry Kay
Mary Carmel Etienne

Yoga Teachers
Monica Moya
Carolyn Merritt

Early bird pricing is now available through March 1 at midnight ET!