Both the July 7 show at the Americas Society and the July 9 show at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater were sold out!!!…I want to thank our wonderful publicist Cindy Byram, Sebastian Zubieta (from the Americas Society) and all the people who made this success possible with their presence and enthusiastic support. As those of you who were there know, they were both great shows. At Joe’s Pub I was joined by my fabulous friends Dario Eskenazi on piano, Pedro Giraudo on bass and Franco Pinna on drums and percussion and as usual they put all their talent in play…Pure pleasure!

Como en uno de esos viajes en los que se descubre mucho más que una simple geografía, a lo largo de sus seis álbumes, la cantautora argentina María Volonté va pintando distintos paisajes sonoros.

Del tango al bolero, del folklore a la bossa nova, de lo clásico a lo renovado, con su emocional estilo que ya es un sello entre las voces rioplatenses, Volonté aborda distintos géneros con una noble versatilidad que se apoya en el ánimo de trascender algunos añejos límites de la música popular, para renovarla, refrescarla y mantenerla latente.
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She’s forging ties with some of region’s top Latin musicians

By Andrew Gilbert
for the Mercury News

Tango is inextricably linked to Buenos Aires. So what happens when you take one of tango’s most acclaimed vocalists and plop her down in Oakland?

For María Volonté, the result is a burst of inspiration, as she forges ties with some of the region’s finest jazz and Latin-American musicians.

While she still makes regular trips to Argentina, since late last year Volonté has been using the Bay Area as a base from which to build her reputation in North America.
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By Diego Graglia - NY Daily News
Tuesday, July 1st 2008, 4:00 AM

It was late one 1985 night at a cabaret in her hometown of Buenos Aires that María Volonté discovered she wanted to sing tangos.

Looking at the women who worked there, she says, she felt overcome with tenderness and the need to connect with them. She mounted a chair, alone in the middle of the floor, and started to sing an a cappella rendition of “La última curda” (The last bout of drunkenness).

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