This event was a huge success for the orchestra and led the Argentine newspapers Clarín and La Nación[1] to describe El Arranque as “the Tango revelation of the year”.
In October of that same year El Arranque performed at Romaeuropa Festival in Rome, Italy for the Tango: Buenos Aires a Roma[2] series of concerts.
After performing in Lausanne and Padua El Arranque returned to Buenos Aires to record their second CD, Cabulero, sponsored by José Libertella, founder and director of the prestigious Sexteto Mayor.
[4] In April, the orchestra performed two concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for the Americartes Festival and returned to Buenos Aires to launch their third CD, Clásicos.
That same year the group took part in the production and recording of the new CD of tango singer Lidia Borda, Tal vez será su voz, and in November toured Colombia for the first time.
The year ended with a series of concerts in the Solís theatre in Montevideo, Uruguay, performances within the framework of the Joventango Festival, and the opening of the Cultural Carnival of Valparaíso in Plaza Sotomayor in front of an audience of over 10,000 people.
In September, El Arranque performed in the first Buenos Aires Tango Festival at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome and in the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon.
In December they celebrated their 10-year anniversary with a series of concerts in the club La Trastienda in Buenos Aires, with their colleagues Lidia Borda, Ariel Ardit, Ramiro Gallo and many more who had taken part in the project over the last decade.
The album came out in two versions, a regular one and a full-colour hard cover boxed set featuring a snakes-and-ladders cum trivia type game[9] inspired by El Arranque's various experiences in the world of tango during the last 12 years.
In September the orchestra travelled back to Rome to take part in the second edition of the Buenos Aires Tango Festival at the Auditorium Parco della Musica.