The 2022 World Accordion & Tango Festival will be held at various venues in Victoria and Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada from November 16th to 20th, 2022.

The event will include the following:

November 16th – Free2Tango – Free introductory tango lessons with Sam and Kelly from Alive Tango, followed by Practica, held at Solwood Studios

November 17th: Free accordion lessons

November 18th –Concert by the Payadora Tango Ensemble and the Nikolay Bine Jazz Quartet at St. Mary’s Anglican Church.

November 19th – Three tango workshops at the Da Vinci Centre with Maria Ines Bogado, World Tango Champion and her partner Sergiy Podbolotnyy, followed by a Gala Milonga with live music by the Tango A La Parilla ensemble led by Canadian/German bandoneonist Douglas Schmidt plus special guest performers.

November 20th – Three tango workshops at the Canadian College for Performing Arts, followed by “TANGO, to the Pointe!”, a new show of Argentine tango by the PointeTango Dance Company. In addition, a concert by internationally acclaimed music & comedy duo, Bridge & Wolak (which includes Michael Bridge on accordion and Kornel Wolak on clarinet & piano – picture left) will be held at St. Mary’s Anglican Church.

For details email: contact@watf.ca

For details email: contact@watf.ca