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Live Tango Music with RODRIGO AVALOS TANGO QUARTETDance practica
8:30-9:30pm
Milonga - Tango Social
9:30pm-12:30am
w/ DJ JOE DURAGO
Live Music 10pm-11pm
Milonga only $25
$15 w/ full-time college student i.d.
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About The Musicians
Rodrigo Avalos
Native from Olavarría, Argentina, Rodrigo Avalos is a bandoneon player and composer.
He has done numerous international tours and has played at prestigious venues
including Teatro Colón, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Usina del Arte, National Intangible
Heritage Center in South Korea and Haus Der Musik in Austria. He has also played with
distinguished artists such as Victor Lavallén, José Colángelo, Roberto Alvarez, Susana
Rinaldi, among others.
He has recorded and produced several albums including Bach en Bandoneón with the
Avalos-Solera Duo, and La Carmen with his own twelve-piece orchestra, Orquesta
Típica La Carmen.
In 2023 he won the First Prize as a bandoneon player at the "Che Bandoneón
International Competition" awarded by the Argentine Tango Society at the Stowe Music
Tango Festival in Vermont, USA. He has also been selected for a scholarship by the
Fondo Nacional de las Artes to develop his compositions.
Keiko Cadby
A mixed native to Northern California and Southern Japan, Keiko Cadby began playing
violin at five (5) years old, performed Carnegie Hall New York by 11, and continued her
studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where she was first introduced to
Argentine tango through the music chair Antonio Lysy (late son of the legendary
Argentine violinist Alberto Lysy). Over the last decade, she has performed
internationally with countless tango performers and ensembles, including GRAMMY
winners Hector Del Curto and Pablo Estigarribia and numerous other nominees, the
West Coast Tango Ensemble, and the Stowe Tango Music Festival orchestra.
Chris Johnson
Chris Johnson studied classical double bass at Cal State Northridge and later at The
Boston Conservatory. He played with many orchestral and chamber music groups in
Los Angeles, Mexico, and Boston. In 2009, Mr. Johnson moved to Buenos Aires to
study tango bass with Juan Pablo Navarro. In the Bay Area, he plays with Seth
Asarnow y su sexteto típico and continues to explore musical possibilities across
genres.
Crystie Shum
Born in Hong Kong, Crystie Shum began piano lessons at four. In 2017, she fell in love
with Argentine tango. Since then, she has been receiving coaching from maestros such
as Hector Del Curto, Pablo Estigarribia, Gustavo Casenave, Hernan Possetti, Nicolas
Ledesma, Adrian Enriquez, Cesar Salgan, Julian Peralta, Juan Pablo Gallardo, etc.
She performed at the Stowe Tango Music Festival in 2022 and 2023 with special guests, Victor Lavallen and Guillermo Rubino. She performed with Nacho Piana, Shino
Ohnaga, Juan Pablo Greco, and Yukie Kawanami in Buenos Aires in February, 2024.
Crystie is actively performing in the following groups: Alex Roitman Tango Ensemble
based in Florida, Orquesta Tipica Domo based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Las
Tangueritas based in Los Angeles. Besides music, she is a social worker with two
dogs, a parrot, a tortoise, and an iguana.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Genesis DanceSport Studio, 404 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94118-2318, United States,San Francisco, California