Django Festival Allstars

Name: Django Festival Allstars
Start: 2024-11-15T20:30:00-06:00
Location: 210 Yale Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM, United States, New Mexico 87106

Schedule

Fri Nov 15 2024 at 08:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

210 Yale Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM, United States, New Mexico 87106 | Albuquerque, NM

Outpost is happy to once again be partnering with the Taos Jazz Bebop Society’s annual Frank Morgan Jazz Festival. A regular at the festival, we will once again present the ever-popular Django Festival Allstars (DFA)! With their unique, high-energy tribute to the “hot jazz” of legendary Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, this brilliantly cohesive group of world class musicians, founded by legendary gypsy guitarist and violinist Dorado Schmitt (who will be part of this fall 2024 tour), has developed their exciting and refined sound for the past 20 years, performing at top concert halls and festivals to standing ovations worldwide. Reinhardt’s driving, swinging style, which “harkens back to the 30s and 40s in Europe where he teamed up with the great jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli, creating The Hot Club Quintette of France, one of the greatest musical partnerships in European Jazz history. ‘Hot-swing’ has its roots in American popular music and in the reverence for Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and other top American jazz figures, and the DFA take the music fully into the 21st century with their own creative interpretations, arrangements, and original compositions. “There’s nothing like The Django Festival Allstars to bring pure JOY to an audience . . . Their music reaches right into your heart and brings ‘smiles’ a mile long . . . as the music is ‘happy’, infectious, and full of love.” For this concert, DFA features Dorado Schmitt and Sons – Samson Schmitt and Amati Schmitt, guitars, plus Francko Mehrstein and Gino Roman, also on guitars.

The Django Festival Allstars will also perform in Santa Fe on Wednesday, November 13 for the Sante Fe Music Collective, and on Thursday, November 14 in Taos as part of the Frank Morgan Taos Jazz Festival.