Congratulations with your stop at the TangoJazz Nightclub El Elegante, the beloved nightlife destination for excellent live music and merry-making. Your hosts of the evening, Kay Sleking and Sieta Keizer, combine the best tango & jazz musicians on stage and find it a real pleasure to give you, beloved audience, a night to remember.
TangoJazz Nightclub El Elegante is located in the hidden pearl Bar Black at the Rembrandt square. One of the enchanting places in the centre of Amsterdam in the middle of the cultural highlife. Bar Black is a nightclub pur sang with a cosy dance floor. And as part of the four-star Eden Hotel, you can make your initial night-out into a weekend adventure.
THE CAST
Kay Sleking
studied classical guitar at the Academy of Arts and the Rotterdam Conservatory and devoted himself to the Argentine Tango. In addition to guitar he plays doublebass and bandoneon and performs internationally as a soloist and with various tango ensembles. He recorded several CD’s, including Guitarra Y Tango, Valdarno with Victor Hugo Villena (bandoneon), and Flor de lino with his guitar trio Guitarras tango. This year, his new CD from Buenos Aires will be released. Kay is a professor at CODARTS.
Sieta Keizer
Studied at the Amsterdam Academy of Arts and continued her studies at the Academy of Drama. She directed Opera and Music Theater and worked over the years with many musicians and actors as casting director, resident director at Stage Entertainment and artistic director at Theater MLab. She taught at CODARTS and Fontys Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Besides her artistic work field she is an inspiring coach for artists and loves to see people shine in daily live and on stage.
Toni Pezzanov
Toni Pezzanov started playing the accordeon on a young age. He found the bandoneon on his path, and in the hands of this renowned master musician it sounds mesmerizingly powerful. This Macedonian virtuoso, who is well-known across the world, cultivates the sounds of classical music mixed with some elements of jazz and tango, which he has been adding more and more to his repertoire, which has opened new horizons for him and has made him even more recognizable.
Radboud Post
Radboud Postal studied classical violin with Vaclav Novak at the Rotterdam Conservatory and Tibor Varga at the Academie de Musique Sion in Switzerland. Then he went into the Argentine tango, majoring in violin. He celebrated international successes with Piazzolla Ensemble Rotterdam, performed as a soloist with Orquesta Tipica OTRA, and was a violinist of Quinteto Arrastre which won first prize at the Doubletree Ocho Concour.
DJ Kay
Cool grooves. Tango Traditional. Tango Neo. Singer Song Writers. Jazz. R&B. All danceable. Media lunas. Sacadas. Barridas. The whole thing. Enjoy!
Dasilvian Bruce & Ray
Dasilvian is a singer-songwriter from Amsterdam. He participated in X-factor and Popstars, and recently released his debut album 'Messiah'. In his music Dasilvian mixes successfully diverse styles as R & B / Soul, Hip-Hop, Pop, Jazz, and Funk. Together with Ray on the keys he will touch your soul. Come and enjoy the high frequencies at TangoJazz Club El Elegante!