Palaver Strings: Port City

Palaver Strings presents a tango-inspired program, preceded by a tango workshop, Saturday, November 8, at the BMC. The 7 p.m. program, “Port City,” explores tango music throughout the genre’s history, and features bandoneon visionary Heyni Solera as soloist and composer. The bandoneon is a type of concertina that is very popular in tango music.  Palaver Strings will perform danceable classics alongside contemporary tango-inspired compositions.

This performance celebrates tango’s ongoing evolution and the powerful interplay between music and dance, and how the genre has been reclaimed by marginalized identities, especially women and queer artists.

The dancers will offer a 6 p.m. tango workshop before the concert, at the BMC. Admission to the workshop is by donation.

Palaver Strings is a Grammy-nominated, musician-led string ensemble and nonprofit organization based in Portland, ME. Its mission is to strengthen and inspire community through music. Palaver’s musicians share artistic and administrative leadership, guided by a passion for engaging new audiences, addressing social justice issues, amplifying underrepresented voices and equally committed to performance and education.