Milonga in Mountshannon
Friday 1 November
5 to 8.15pm €15 - Workshop and live concert
6.45 to 8.15pm €10 - Live concert only
Community Hall
The Argentinean tango duet Vito Sputnik will recreate a “Milonga”: a traditional social event from Argentina where the attendants meet to listen and dance tango.
The event will start with a beginner’s tango lesson lead by Agustina Taborda. In this lesson you will learn your first tango movements and the body language needed to share this dance with another person. It is a dance for two, but you won’t need to attend with a partner: we will rotate the couples and the roles of leader and follower to get the most of the dance experience. It won’t be necessary to have any special type of shoes, but we recommend to pick from your wardrobe shoes that will stick less to the floor if possible.
During and after the lesson we will play selections of tango recordings from different iconic Orquestas Típicas, such as Juan D’arienzo, Osvaldo Pugliese and Carlos di Sarli. You will be welcomed to continue dancing or to just sit and listen.
To close the event Vito Sputnik (Ernesto Inouye and Agustina Taborda) will perform live traditional tangos in Bandoneón and Piano, once more inviting the audience to join on the dance floor or to simply listen, watch and enjoy the atmosphere.
If you want to learn your first tango steps, listen to an authentic and powerful tango duet and submerge yourself in Argentinean culture, join in!
Vito Sputnik is an Argentinean instrumental tango duet formed by Agustina Taborda on bandoneón and Ernesto Inouye on piano. They are part of a new generation of tango musicians from the city of Rosario, which had its origins with the “Orquesta Municipal Escuela de Tango”, directed by Javier Lo Re.
Their repertoire takes up the compositions of the legendary orchestras of the first half of the 20th century: Osvaldo Pugliese, Juan D’Arienzo, Carlos di Sarli, among others. These pieces were made for social dancing, and Vito Sputnik perpetuates this legacy performing with a vigorous and dynamic style.
Since they came together in 2010, they have performed extensively around Argentina and its neighboring countries. In their city they participated in Encuentro Metropolitano de Tango (2012) and Primer Festival Independiente de Tango (2012). They were invited to Brazil to take part in the 3rd Bandoneon Festival in Chapecó (2011) and to perform in Campinas University (2014). Since 2022 the duet has been on an annual tour around Ireland and the UK, playing in milongas, pubs and cultural venues.
Agustina Taborda is an Argentinean bandoneonist based in Galway, Ireland.
In 2014 received her degree in Bandoneón in the Rosario National University, studying under the bandoneonist Alicia Petrollini.
She received a Rosario Government Grant for taking private Lessons with the renowned bandoneonist Federico Pereiro in Buenos Aires (2012), and a National University Grant to perform as a solo bandoneonist in different events from the University (2013).
She specialized in the instrument taking workshops with Cholo Montironi, Daniel Binelli and Rodolfo Mederos, among others.
In 2017 Agustina was was invited to represent the Rosario National University in Morroco, playing bandoneón in the Hispano – Luso Institut, Mohammed V University.
After moving country to relocate in Ireland, she received a Bursary from Galway Arts Council (2019) to work in her first solo album “I bhfad ar shiúl” (released in 2020), and a second one in 2022 to work in her second solo álbum in process: “La Reina: Dissection”.
She formed part of numerous Tango ensembles and collaborated with many projects of original music. Some of them are “Rodney Owl” (2020-2023), “Duelo Criollo” (2016), “Bajomundo”, “The Curley Organ”, “May fly to the moon”, “Laguna”, “Orquesta de Señoritas”, and “Quinteto Gabriel de Pedro”.
Ernesto Inouye is an Argentinean pianist and accordeonist. He began taking piano lessons at the age of eight at the Instituto Promúsica de Rosario. Later he studied classical piano under pianists Adrián Pistono, Víctor Cortés and Víctor Parma.
In 2010 began his career as a tango pianist in the Orquesta Típica Carlos Quilici, and soon after formed the tango duo Vito Sputnik with bandoneonist Agustina Taborda.
He was the pianist of the tango treo Mercurio (2014), of the rock band Sergio Ivanovich Orquesta (2016) and of the instrumental quintet La doble trampa mortal (2021-2023). In 2016, he composed the soundtrack for the animated series Verdadera Verdad, directed by Andrés Almasio, in collaboration with Lautaro Vial. As an accordionist, he was part of the duet Billy Pilgrim (2014), the circus orchestra Sarrasani (2015) and collaborated on the album Vitrales (2018) by Tomás Boasso.
For the last ten years he has been working as a music tutor, teaching piano and accordion.
Ernesto is a graduated Professor of Literature from the National University of Rosario. In addition to his music activity, he works as a literature researcher, teacher and editor.
