Cecilia Bonardi, Laura Esses, Alejandra Cañoni and Florencia García Casabal make up the Argentine quartet Flores Negras, which begins a tour of Spain this May with a special recommendation from the Argentine Embassy.
Invited to the Festival Internacional de Tango de Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz), to be held between 23 and 26 May, they will perform on Friday 24 May at the Teatro Moderno as representatives of the Argentine Republic. On 26 May they will be at the Sala El Cachorro in Seville, and the following day, 37 May, they will be at the Madrid venue De Modestia Na. On 29 May they will perform at Casa dels Contes, Barcelona, on 30 May at the Sant Medir Church in Barcelona (Calle Constitució, 17), to finish their Spanish tour in Madrid on 31 May at the Centro Cultural Valdebernardo (Bulevar Indalecio Prieto, 21), and on 1 June at the Centro Cultural San Juan Bautista (Calle San Nemesio, 4). They will be accompanied once again on this tour by Raúl Kiokio on guitar.
Flores Negras, Cuatro Voces en Tango continues to present their latest album Maldito Tango, and an extensive repertoire by Astor Piazzolla, which will form part of the new album Piazzolla en Flor, to be recorded this year.
These four women came together in 1996 and decided to name themselves Flores Negras (Black Flowers), inspired by the title of Francisco De Caro’s tango, thus opening up a path that had been little trodden in the country by reaffirming the place of women as tango performers. They began to develop their proposal on different stages in Buenos Aires and in their country, also taking their sound to Uruguay, Portugal, Spain, Holland, France, Belgium and Germany in their international tour.
The quartet recreates a repertoire that ranges from the most traditional proposals to recently created city music. Thus, tangos, waltzes, milongas and candombes such as Che, bandoneón, Libertango, Oro y Plata, Milonga de la Anunciación and Gota de lluvia, among others, by composers and authors as diverse as Ángel Villoldo and Astor Piazzolla or Discépolo, Manzi and Ferrer, can be heard.
His video of Libertango was one of those selected by the Argentine Chancellery, and broadcast in the different Argentine embassies on the anniversary of the 100th anniversary of Astor Piazzolla’s birth.
