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Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet & Los Tangueros del Oeste

  • Buena Onda + Empanadas 724 East Haley Street Santa Barbara, CA, 93103 United States (map)

Nomad Tango & Buena Onda Restaurant Present

“Stars, Magic…Tango”

An Open Air Party with live music, dinner, and dancing. 

Grammy Award musicians of The Gorczynski Tango Quartet will delight you with the sounds of the new vanguard of Tango & Jazz

We roll out our beautiful dance floor to receive The Charles Gorczyinski Quartet with a crossover from Los Tangueros Del Oeste. Their sounds combine classical and avant-garde tango: some traditional, some electronic, all tango.

  • “Choose your seat” option with VIP tickets, while supplies last.

  • “General Admission” is first come first served…but we have tables for EVERYONE!

  • SPECIAL MENU designed by Matias Requena

  • DJ Ruben Tedesco from Estatic Dance

  • COUPON TwoToTango for a $5 discount if you buy two or more tickets

  • FREE PARKING just a block away at Santa Barbara Middle School.

An Open Air Party with live music, food & drink. Step into Buena Onda courtyard and find yourself in a new world of music, dance, food, and friendship.

This is Santa Barbara's premier of The Gorczynski Tango Quartet and its nightclub-tango style, a band of virtuoso Maestros that plays for the dance floor. 

Share food and conversation under the stars. A whole life experience and dance to this remarkable band’s, music of the heart.


ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet

Charles Gorczynski - Bandoneon

Keiko Cadby - Violin

Elyse Weakley - Piano

Sascha Jacobsen - Contrabass

Milonga with live music to traditional tango music plus new music by Nomad’s friend, Sascha Jacobsen

WHEN: Thursday, April 18, 2024. 5:30  - 9:30 p.m.

WHERE: Buena Onda + Empanadas 

724 Haley Street, Santa Barbara, 93103

Charles Gorczynski 

Minneapolis-based composer and bandoneonist Charles Gorczynski works in contemporary tango, new music, and studio production. He leads the acclaimed modern tango group Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet, and is the director of the Twin Cities Tango Collective.

Charles is a deeply established musician and community organizer with a distinct voice in creative new music, and has also worked with Redwood Tango Ensemble, Tango Sin Fin, Mariano Barreiro Tango Trio, Tango BC Quartet, Alejandro Ziegler Cuarteto, Maxi Larrea Trio, Maldito Tango, Los Tangueros Del Oeste, Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Chorale, Vocal Essence Orchestra Hall, Mason Bates’ Mercury Soul Orchestra, and California Symphony.

Sascha Jacobsen 

2022 Latin Grammy-nominated composer, orchestrator, arranger, orchestrator, and bassist, upright and electric. Sashca has performed with Kronos Quartet, Rita Moreno, Hugh Jackman, Martin Short, Mandy Patinkin & Patti LuPone, Marc Shaiman, Bonnie Raitt, Randy Newman, Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth, Andrew Lippa, Eddie Duran, 

Fluent in many styles including Jazz, Rock, Funk, Blues, Americana, Argentine Tango, Salsa, Latin Jazz, Classical Music, Sascha’s passion for music and dance has led him to collaborate with great dance groups such as The Flamenco Theatre Company of San Francisco, Tango Fatal with Choreographer Jorge Torres (Forever Tango), The Island Moving Company, San Jose Dance,  and the Chitresh Das Dance Company with Jason Samuels Smith. His arrangement of the Rhapsody in Blue for String Quintet has been sold in more than 15 countries around the world.  

Sashcha has performed with Argentine Tango group, Trio Garufa, and founded Los Tangueros del Oeste.

Very Limited Seating. We are limiting the number of attendees for everybody’s safety. 

Nomad Tango is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in Santa Barbara in 2021 to promote and support Tango. Since its early days, it has grown into an immersive world of tango that involves tango classes, workshops, history, milongas (tango parties), tango shows, and collaborative efforts with other creative individuals in the art scene. 

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