Django Reinhardt Festival News

 
Django all the way
Pacific Sun
by Greg Cahill "Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn't have," said Belgian jazz musician Django Reinhardt, who rose to fame as one of ...


 
Grateful Web
Django Reinhardt Festival Returns to Birdland | June 19-24
Grateful Web
The annual Django Reinhardt NY Festival now is semi-annual, June and November, due to public demand for this very popular event of HOT JAZZ. The Festival is produced by Pat Philips & Ettore Stratta. Returning are 'THE YOUNG LIONS OF GYPSY JAZZ' from ...
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Springsteen, Kelly Clarkson and Aerosmith headline sizzling season
Boston Herald
Alternatives: For Gogol's sonic peers, try Balkan Beat Box (June 14, Paradise); for something more traditional, there's the Django Reinhardt Festival All Stars (June 15 and 16, Scullers). The mayor of Margaritaville returns for his annual New England ...

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Encore!: Gypsy Jazz in Ithaca
ithaca.com
Almost sixty years after his death, the legacy of jazz composer and guitarist Django Reinhardt persists. Wondering why, the New Yorker Magazine's resident Francophone Adam Gopnik wrote: “Hearing his music revived revives the era, and reminds us that ...


 
Andalusia | Flamenco nights
Livemint
Often colourful, iconic characters—legends like Django Reinhardt pioneered “gypsy jazz”—gypsies were also victimized during the Holocaust and continue to be discriminated against by those seeing them as restless encroachers often in and out of jobs, ...


 
Rochester City Newspaper
GYPSY JAZZ: Stephane Wrembel (5/26)
Rochester City Newspaper
He also offered generous helpings of the Django Reinhardt-evoking music of guitarist Stephane Wrembel. But, as Wrembel's wonderful new album "Origins" amply demonstrates, that's only one facet of his oeuvre. The music, ranging from rock to flamenco, ...


 
ARTS IN BRIEF | May 25, 2012
TheChronicleHerald.ca
For more than six years, the band has been paying tribute to gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt with a selection of songs. It features three gypsy guitars, clarinet, violin, and bass, with swing diva Cynthia Myers on vocals.

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