Finnish tango in Camden on Friday, 23 January at 8.30 p.m.

Shades of Winter – The Little Heart Tango Orchestra returns to Green Note for a wintry edition of the Mystery of Finnish Tango. Nobody quite knows how the sinuous rhythms of the Argentinian Tango first made the long journey from the steamy nightclubs of Buenos Aires to long darkness of the Finnish winter; but this much is certain – when Tango finally did get to Finland, it had come to stay!

The Little Heart Tango Orchestra brings a breath of wintry Finnish air to London, in a performance featuring popular music from the Finland of the 1930s-1960s. This dramatic show weaves snatches of song and story from the trenches of the Winter War, glimpses of the glamour of the great ‘lost city’ of Viipuri, and everyday tales of fatal passion, unrequited love, National Romanticism, personal tragedy, the treachery of the heart, the vagaries of passion, and the ever-present seductions of vodka and despair.