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Although many musicians are unfortunately still unable to practice their profession well,
we have been very lucky this summer:

The SHM festival Lübeck

With Tangata & Jeannine Geerts we were allowed to play at the Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival near Lübeck.
What a party:
750 seats outside in the sun of Pronstorf castle, where the public could enjoy us
Tribute to Astor Piazzolla  performance.

We were moved to finally be able to play again after such a long silence and waiting!
We realized how long Tangata has been playing together and how close we are.

Garden concert Amerongen Castle.

After the Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival Trio Tangata played 2 performances on 1 August
with Aubrey Snel saxophone in the castle garden of Amerongen,
a beautiful special day with many enthusiastic reactions.

Tuscanny Tango in Querceto with Trio Tangata

Following the performance in Amerongen, Trio Tangata traveled to the beautiful Querceto in Tuscany.
Here from July 31 to August 7 it was Tuscanny Tango Holiday event organized.
In this magical medieval village in the heart of Tuscany, all kinds of tango activities were organized for a week with workshops, performances and technique / body awareness exercises led by 4 renowned maestros.

A week of concerts under the stars and breathtaking natural beauty,
great dancers and audience. How beautiful is that!

Castelnau des Fieumarcon

How beautiful: to be invited again to play at the Castelnau des Fieumarcon.

Also there, besides meeting my Portuguese and French friends, I gave 2 concerts together with Ad Colen in the castle tower where the grand piano from Lisbon (Palacio Belmonte) had been transferred since this week.

The BBC was there filming for their documentary series “How to run a castle” starring Anali. From my “Luces de Belmonte’ recordings were made that will be included in the documentary. Hilarious, and special!

Dutch Tango Week

Back in the Netherlands, the beautiful performance with Kees Scholten and Gustavo Cabrera for the international Dutch Tangoweek was allowed to continue online from the beautiful Muntgebouw Utrecht.

In short: I really enjoyed so much music in amazingly beautiful and historic locations all summer long. It was possible again, hooray🌹🙏🏼

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This summer I had a very happy stay at the Castelnau in Lagardedes Fieumarcon with the Portuguese family Coustol / Mendonca from Lisboa and their friends: artists, journalists, writers and musicians.

It was very nice spending our time together and an honor to make music with them and perform the first concert ever on the new beautiful stage: a grand piano located on the roof tower.
While playing music we could hear the sound of the "crickets"
Pianist Simon from Australia was one of the other performers.

Beautiful moments I will never forget.

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we enjoyed it a lot to give a concert and a performance at Paris
It was wonderful to play and stay in the heart of Paris.
(Eglise de Billettes with the Chorus Popayan / and at the tango society Le Temps du Tango

Thanks:
& #8211; Carla van Benschop for all the organization
& #8211; Hernan Alcala / conductor
& #8211; Genevièce Fradelizi hostess
& #8211; Chorus Popayan from Paris
& #8211; collegues Jacqueline Edeling bandoneon and Boris Franz double bass

1 with the demo preparation for a concert «Tango» tout and beauté, avec Margreet Markerink, TrioTangata and la Chorale Popayan. Quel bonheur the partager ces beaux moments. Plénitude & #x1f60a;
Fantastic concert with trio tangata. A lot of preparation but the result was there! Huge satisfaction.
& #8211; Carla van Benschop

 

 

The Popayan choir celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2018. Popayan is a city in Colombia where the founder of the choir was born: NURT ASTRID VILLANI RAMIREZ. The repertoire of the choir consists of traditional and popular songs from Latin America. The singers are a colorful group that share a passion for Latin American music. They like to share this pleasure during concerts, exchanges and parties.

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This summer I traveled through Germany and France with my musical colleague friends, to perform at many beautiful locations.
GERMANY
I enjoyed the beautiful tour with Tangata & Jeannine Geerts in northern Germany,
The highlight is the concert in Hasselburg, (Schleswig Holstein Musik festival) but also on the Timmendorferstrand. A great & #8220; Treppenkonzert & #8221; at the Kellersee in Eutin and finally: Lübeck on a swinging tango dance evening.
FRANCE
It was fantastic to fly to Paris and meet my music colleague from the Hague string ensemble & Emmy Storms again in Trancault (close to Troyes). We have given concerts in the Cathedrale of Troyes and Nogins sur la Seine.
CASTELNAU DES FLEURMARCON
I spent the last week in Lagarde, southern France, in the impressive Castelnau des Fieumarcon, where I was invited to give a few solo concerts. Very special to also give musical performances together with the international guests and family of Frederic Coustols and Maria Mendonca. Armenian songs, French chansons, Portuguese children's songs,
and as the most special new adventure: performances with rapper Duarte (Duda Tranquilo).
View here a video with the youngest: Vicente, from Lisbon.

Full of inspiration and with new musical ideas I came back to the Netherlands
again with the awareness of how music connects people.

OBRIGADA!

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& #8220; It should finally come to an end; Buenos Aires. To meet the city, people and their music. That tango music that has turned my life upside down for so many years. Ever started out of curiosity & #8211; as a musician I have a broad interest in many music styles & #8211; this grew into a passion for life. And now along with bandoneonist Jacqueline Edeling en route to the maestro & #8217; s of tango music, packed and packed with good advice and the telephone numbers of Lydia Pugliese and Horacio Ferrer, among others. & #8217;

readhere the entire travelogueof Margreet that was published in la Cadena.

Margreet and Horacio Ferrer
Colorful Buenos Aires

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Ulia Robinson from Minnesota, a professor of architecture with a great passion for tango dancing, happened to be present in the Netherlands at the Chocloprijs ceremony in 2008. She took my five compositions to America and played the music there, and especially my waltz Te quiero completely gray . Then I received an email from her asking if I would like to perform at a tango festival in Minnesota. ''What? America? Joehoe! "

"Here in Minneapolis you can't throw a rock out of the window without hitting a musician '

read her enthusiastic story here about the tango community there.