Mini-Concert—The Gypsy Swing Cats

Name: Mini-Concert—The Gypsy Swing Cats
Start: 2024-07-29T12:00:00-07:00
Location: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library

Schedule

Mon Jul 29 2024 at 12:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library | La Jolla, CA

Mini-Concert; free admission.
The San Diego based Gypsy Swing Cats perform an energetic, innovated blend of swing, jazz, and blues. Their music merges gypsy melodies and rhythms, with the influences of American jazz reminiscent of Paris in the 1930s: cool, charming, and classy. The music of The Gypsy Swing Cats is thoroughly modern infused with the wild, mysteriously free and exciting gypsy flavors.
Gypsy jazz, also known as gypsy swing, is a musical expression often said to have been started by guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt. He was foremost amongst a group of gypsy guitarists working in and around Paris in the 1930s. The music combined the exciting sound of American jazz that transformed the old into the new. The guitarists supercharged the music further by adding swing to the fire and melancholia of the unique gypsy sound. The tantalizing melodies of The Gypsy Swing Cats bring the audience a unique and new experience. Their highly rhythmic sound will electrify.