Friday 18th April 2008

It’s Tango time at The Manor Ballroom, Ipswich!

Peppery Productions are excited to announce that La Chicana, a top tango band from Buenos Aires, will appear at the Manor Ballroom on Friday 18th April 2008.

La Chicana is an absolute revelation, one of the funkiest takes on Tango heard for many a year. The band draws on Tango from the 1920s and 1930s but with a distinct twist. La Chicana hail from Buenos Aries, have won prestigious awards, collaborated with BBC world music award winner Chango Spasiuk and gained great reviews from both Froots and Songlines.

La Chicana was formed in early 1996 with the clear intention of producing tango music with a rougher edge; they favour the "canyengue" rhythms and humorous melodrama of early tango as opposed to more solemn later flavours.  They truly believe that the essence of tango lies in its 1920s spirit of rebellion and spontaneity which puts it ideologically closer to roots music than to the orchestral forms that popularised it in the world since the 1940s.

But they don't lack subtleties or precision; they are fine musicians with a taste for improvisation and texture.  All they need is the chance to prove that tango music should thrive as popular music in the streets while it continues to dazzle from the orchestral stand.

Set to appear at The Manor Ballroom in Ipswich on 18th April, La Chicana have delighted audiences all over the world (Spain, Germany, Brazil, Canada, England and Senegal) and have added to their music, elements of different cultures akin to tango along the way.

Don’t miss what will inevitably be another great night of live roots music from Peppery!

Info at  www.peppery.co.uk

Listen to soundclips at http://www.lachicanatango.com/music.html#ayer

Tickets now on sale from The New Wolsey box office - call in or ring 01473 295900

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