Beogradska Tango Asocijacija :: Belgrade Tango Association

Beltango Quintet has recently returned from Buenos Aires following a two-week tour.
Our renowned band travelled there upon invitation of Buenos Aires Ministry of Culture, which trusted their talent well enough to include them in the official programme of the IX World Tango Festival, the most famous tango festival in the world. The fact that this was the first time ever that an orchestra from Europe had been invited to this famous festival made this invitation particularly valuable.
Beltango gave two unforgettable concerts during the festival (Plazza Echeverria and Teatro Sarmiento), and they performed to Buenos Aires audiences at two famed milongas (Bien Pulenta and Salon Canning). The reaction of the audience was terrific, and the praise of the old Argentinean tangueros was particularly rewarding. The atmosphere at celebrated Salon Canning during Beltango performance served to confirm that Beltango is one of very few tango orchestras worldwide that successfully transforms and embraces different tango styles (Traditional Tango, Tango Nuevo, Balkango). Buenos Aires audience in particularly welcomed the original pieces composed for Beltango, and new Beltango CD became a hit among tango DJs in Buenos Aires.
The news that a Serbian tango orchestra was the guest of the greatest tango festival in the world attracted considerable coverage in Argentinean media. Furthermore, good use was made of the stay at Buenos Aires to intensify contacts with great tango artists, and a Protocol on Cooperation was signed between the patron of the Belgrade Tango Festival – Stari Grad Municipality and the patron of the World Tango Festival – Buenos Aires Ministry of Culture.
On return from Buenos Aires, Beltango is getting ready for a grand European tour in Sweden and Greece, and they are also scheduled to perform in Sofia and Ljubljana. Naturally, we are all together expecting the peak of the season in Belgrade and the 4th Belgrade Tango Festival, which is to take place between 6 and 9 September.
You can see photos from Beltango’s tour in Argentina at BTA Photo Gallery.