IN TANGO FESTIVALITO was born in 2023 from the collaboration between the Municipality of Sammichele di Bari and Angela Vallarelli. The three-day summer event is dedicated to Argentine tango with free evening Milongas in the beautiful and large Piazza Vittorio Veneto, and collateral events such as lessons, performance and live music. La piazza immediately proved to be a success thanks to a flooring completely suitable for Tango dancers and its location close to the ancient town. Sammichele di Bari is welcoming and offering dance opportunities so that Argentine Tango is fully accepted in the buena onda of a town that dances.

2025 – we are in the 3rd year and the days will be July 23, 24, 25. Midweek days that do not affect the busy Apulian calendar of summer Milongas. In these three days we will have free access to evening milongas in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, presentation of pre-milonga books on Tango, live music and Mediterranean & Argentine folklore.

This year’s protagonists will be the Argentine Tango teachers YATMA DIALLO, OSVALDO ROLDAN and ANNA MARIA FERRARA. Together, in their respective classes, in these 3 beautiful days, they will bring the spirit, energy, joy and passion of social Tango. TERESA FURNO, ANDREA CIONI and the DUO GOLONDRINAS are back for Argentine folklore. We will have afternoon literary appointments on Tango with the Argentine JOSE’ DE LA QUIMERA, musicalizador and writer-documentarian. On the afternoon of July 24th there will also be a table where the local teachers of milonguero social tango, Massimo Terzi and Carmela Fiorentino, will sit to tell their experience, together with the other guests. Nothing will be missing! Not even the poetic moment with Nicolaia Valenzano and the artistic exhibitions of Luigi Pacifico.

The EVENINGS, then, will be special! THREE free MILONGAS with three INTERNATIONAL DJs of Argentine Tango. The Argentine PUNTO Y BRANCA (JORGE), the Italian GRAZIANO SPORTELLI, the African YATMA DIALLO.

23 JULY

Punto y Branca (Jorge)

24 JULY

Graziano Sportelli

25 JULY

Yatma Diallo

2024 – In the 2nd Edition of InTango Festivalito on the dance floor and in the lessons this time there were the teachers and dancers Veronica Toumanova and Asya Moiseeva. We also wanted a rich program of Argentine Folklore with Teresa and Andrea Cioni, Makiko Mori, Irene Coccia, as well as the Duo Golondrinas, as well as a literary and documentary moment on tango with Josè El de la Quimera, and his book Milongueros. At the console of the Milongas that this year were two there were Asya and Graziano Sportelli.

Il Festivalito opened its 1st Edition with three Milongas, the concert of the Trio Pichuco in the bandoneon, piano and voice formation, to the tunes of Astor Piazzolla, tango, vals and milonga lessons with the maestri Osvaldo Roldan e Annamaria Ferrara. At the console of the Milongas we had Punto y Branca (Jorge), Makiko Mori and the Trio Pichuco who played live danceble tango music with also dj. Amedeo Gianfrancesco.  The maestri performed at the inauguration of the Festivalito on the terrace of the Castello Caracciolo where the concert was held. A rare performance because it is not in their style to dance exhibition tango. Howewer, we thank them because they dance with technique & soul. True art.