En Vivo: Heyni Solera & Teagan Faran

1541 East 38th Street,Cleveland OH 44114

23 September, 2022

Description

Guardia Vieja creates memorable experiences by invigorating the Argentine Tango scene through a variety of art and culture events. Although we started out in Austin, Texas, we are so excited to be joining the Cleveland community and bringing these experiences to our new hometown! For our very first event, we are kicking things off with a unique opportunity to experience Contemporary Agentine Tango through a concert event, featuring a series of solos and duos with Heyni Solera on bandoneon and Teagan Faran on violin. About the Artists Heyni Solera and Teagan Faran first played together asynchronously during early Spring 2020. Since then, their collaborations have expanded to performances in cities across the East Coast. Their collective mission is to present Argentine tango through virtuosic artistic performance and informative educational events. Heyni and Teagan were drawn together by a mutual love of tango music, as well as through solidarity for creating equitable gender space in performance. They studied and performed with prestigious tango orchestras in Buenos Aires and have brought their focus on contemporary work back to North American audiences. Please stay in touch and find out more about each artist by visiting their website! Teagan Faran - https://www.teaganfaran.com/ Heyni Solera - https://heynisolera.com/ Check out the video below to get a flavor for what the conversation and music might be like with Heyni and Teagan. Programming To further enhance the concert experience, we are also offering some bonus content. Please find below details around the complete program offerings: Today's Women in Tango: Carving out Spaces (September 23, 6-8pm): For the past six years, Argentina has seen the feminist movement increase in drive and power. In 2015, the movement "Ni Una Menos" mobilized women to form collectives and to fight for their rights. Several important pieces of legislation have passed as a result of this movement, such as the "Ley De Ocupo" and the legalization of abortion. Tango music has also been influenced by this movement as more female tango musicians begin to form all-women ensembles, take on positions of leadership, engage with social change through protest and academic research, etc. Using an ethnomusicological approach, this lecture focuses on 14 different female, tango musicians to shed some insight on how today's women in tango position themselves during this time period, and how they are carving out for themselves a space in a historically male-dominated genre.A GPS for Tango Listening: What Makes a Tango a Tango (September 24, 12-3pm - NOTE: This location is different and will be at Limelight at Electric Gardens): To get where you’re going in Argentine Tango, it helps to know where you’re coming from. Dialogue with Heyni Solera as she brings her sense of adventure and scholarship to explore what makes Argentine tango the genre that it is, how it has developed to present day and where it can take us in the future. Limited Availability En Vivo: Heyni Solera & Teagan Faran: (September 24, 6pm) Be transported to the Buenos Aires of today, with a Contemporary Tango Concert. See above for artist details. Tango Vinyls & Wine (September 25, 5pm, Secret Location): An opportunity to meet the artists over a wine tasting and listening to Tango on Vinyl. Limited availability. We hope there is something here for each of you, and look forward to seeing you over the weekend! Note: COVID variants have been on the rise and we will continue to monitor the situation for additional guidelines, as needed. Please do consult Guardia Vieja's COVID Policies for more information on what you can expect, barring any new external factors: https://www.guardiaviejaatx.com/ourvalues