Congratulations with your stop at the TangoJazz Nightclub El Elegante, the beloved nightlife destination for excellent live music and merry-making. Your host of the evening, Kay Sleking, combines the best tango & jazz musicians on stage and finds 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 Hampshire Hotel Rembrandt Square, you can make your initial night-out into a weekend adventure with the special El Elegante Arrangements.
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 leads a tango big band, the Orquesta Tipica Belgica, and has 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.
Andreas Rokseth
Alexander Vocking started to play the double bass at an early age and studied at the department of Argentine Tango of the World Music department of Codarts. During his study he formed together with his fellow students the tango quintet Locos Lindos. With this quintet he performs international and also participates in various tango ensembles.
Alexander Vocking
Alexander Vocking started to play the double bass at an early age and studied at the department of Argentine Tango of the World Music department of Codarts. During his study he formed together with his fellow students the tango quintet Locos Lindos. With this quintet he performs international and also participates in various tango ensembles.
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.
Annet Schaap
Annet Schaap always wanted to become a draftsman, writer, or explorer. She studied at two art academies and a writer's school. Since 1991 she has illustrated almost 200 children's books and is best known in the Netherlands for her drawings on Francine Oomen's successful 'How To Survive' series. But she also illustrated many books by other beloved writers, such as Janneke Schotveld, Manon Sickle, Jacques Vriens, Annie M.G. Schmidt and Astrid Lindgren. She wrote Lampje, a book for children and young by heart adults, for which she received the Nienke van Hichtumprijs.
