Tango Siempre features Pete Rosser (accordion), Ros Stephen (violin), Jonathan Taylor (piano) and Kylie Davies (double bass).

Their repertoire includes the intoxicating rhythms and melodies of 1930’s Buenos Aires, the beautiful nuevo tango of Astor Piazzolla, powerful new works by members of the group, and innovative commissions from composers as diverse as Pablo Ziegler (pianist from Piazzolla’s quintet), Huw Warren (winner of Radio 3 Innovation in Jazz Award 2005) and Will Gregory (of Goldfrapp).

Tango Siempre have given over 600 performances since their formation in 1998 at venues including the Purcell Room, Sadler’s Wells, ArtsDepot, Riverside Studios, the Lowry, Wales Millennium Centre and at major arts festivals in Cheltenham, Bath, Salisbury, Newbury and Exeter.

Tango Siempre have collaborated with internationally renowned artists including tango dancers Mina and Giraldo, the London Mozart Players, bandoneonist Victor Villena (of Gotan Project), the Groningen Guitar Duo, Bristol trip-hop producer Jim Barr and Diversions Dance.

Recent collaborations include a national tour in May 2006 with the virtuoso jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon (winner of BBC Jazz Award 2003) and the outstanding drummer Steve Arguelles, funded by Arts Council England. Performances include Oxford Contemporary Music, Dartington Arts, The Sage Gateshead, Salisbury Festival, Hall for Cornwall and Leeds Fuse festival.

Tango Siempre have received funding from ACE and the PRSF New Works Scheme, and in 2005 they received a PRSF Performance Groups Award. Two of their albums are distributed internationally by ARC Music Productions Ltd.

With their high energy performance style and total artistic commitment, Tango Siempre are the future of contemporary tango music.  

" Tango Siempre can do passion, drama, melancholy beauty and sentimentality... like the best tango bands, they play with a fiery spirit that goes hand in fist with virtuosity and precision. Tango, like God, and like the Devil, is in the details. " - John L. Walters, The Guardian, January 2005.

" ...romantic, dramatic and at times tempestuous music... a real feeling of exhilaration... impressively fluent and authentic " - Rob Adams, The Glasgow Herald

" ...twisting and turning the ever malleable form of tango into a very contemporary end. Tango has never been so dizzyingly cross-cultural " - Jazzwise Magazine

" Unquestionably unique in their approach within the British jazz/tango scene, I suspect Tango Siempre are pretty distinctive when compared to the international circuit, too. " - Chris Moss, Songlines