The Argentine tango orchestra "Astillero" represented Argentina at the biggest tango festival in Finland, Tangomarkkinat, which this year celebrated its 30th anniversary with an audience of 116,000 people as well as 900,000 who followed the YLE broadcasts on their TVs.
The sextet staged a concert last Friday night, which lasted an hour and was followed by more than a hundred people, enough to fill the capacity of the venue located just a few meters across "Tango Street", which is considered to be the center of the festival. The band played its own tangos and also invited Argentine bandoneon-player Mercedes Krapovickas to join them for two of their songs.
On Saturday Astillero also got to play at the "Tango Queen finals", which, beeing witnessed by thousands of people at the Seinäjoki Areena and broadcast live on YLE, was again one of the main events of the festival.
Astillero's appearance during the "Tango Queen finals" can be watched on YouTube.
