Chango Spasiuk and Pedro Canale of Chancha Vía Circuito talk to Billboard Argentina about their current project reworking "Polcas de mi Tierra." By Billboard Argentina In one of the tracks on Polcas ...

Tango has grown remarkably in the city in recent times, both as a spectacle and as a discipline. This weekend, the N.Y. Tango Festival will offer aficionados a bacchanal of the Argentinean music they ...

Chango Spasiuk may look like a 1970s rock star, with his long blond hair and beard, but he is one of the great originals of the Latin music scene: an instrumentalist and composer who has popularised ...

During the colonial era, northern Europeans took accordions all over the world. Ever since, folky wedding dances like the polka have been interbreeding with indigenous music styles in faraway lands.

The accordion is like a rare flower that only grows in a very specific climate. Wherever the accordion thrives, you find the same conditions: an unlikely mix of wildly disparate cultures that somehow ...

Accordion wiz Spasiuk is from Argentina, but don’t let that fool you into thinking this soothing album has anything to do with tango. A native of the northern Misiones province, Spasiuk favors the ...

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Horacio "Chango" Spasiuk (born on September 23, 1968 in Apóstoles, Misiones) is an Argentine chamamé musician and accordion player. Of Ukrainian grandparents, El Chango had a strong Polka music ...

For two hours he sat playing his accordion, concentrating intensely, but saying nothing. Then, as the audience greeted his final instrumental set with a standing ovation, Chango Spasiuk called for an ...

North-East Argentina gave birth to chamamé, and to its leading exponent. Via Chango Spasuik the world is discovering it and his compatriots now take the genre more seriously. ‘The soundtrack to a ...