Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The historic Django Reinhardt NY Festival will celebrate its milestone 25th ...

At the age of 16 while still in high school, Max O’Rourke attended Django Camp in Northampton to learn more about jazz manouche, also referred to as hot club-style jazz. Now years later, O’Rourke is ...

Kit Eakle and his string ensemble Djangoshpere will perform music of Django Reinhardt and Thelonious Monk in the next Point Richmond Jazz concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 25 at historic First United ...

Reinhardt, whose virtuosic guitar playing defied losing the use of two fingers in a fire, died prematurely, at 43, in 1953, while Grappelli lived to almost 90. Through recordings and direct lineage, ...

Starring legendary Gypsy guitarist TCHAVOLO SCHMITT, Gypsy guitar star DORADO SCHMITT, virtuoso violinist FLORIN NICULESCU, accordion great LUDOVIC BEIER, young guitar dynamo SAMSON SCHMITT, top Dutch ...

Due to those always mysterious “unforeseen circumstances,” the upcoming tribute concert “Django Reinhardt at 100” featuring Dorado Schmitt and the Django NY Festival All-Stars – which was slated for ...

Sir Rod Stewart & Jools Holland Partner Up For New Album by Michael Major - December 05, 2023 For the first time, Britain's new partners in swing have united to share their peerless dexterity on a ...

NORTHAMPTON – Andrew Lawrence remembers when Django in June was nothing more than a one-day workshop held under a tree. But by the time this year’s edition of the Gypsy jazz festival and workshop ...

With music festivals South by Southwest and Coachella just around the corner, Washington area venues are suddenly thick with bands with an international following as well as newcomers trying to build ...

Django Reinhardt was born in 1910 to a family of French Gypsies. He taught himself guitar before he could read or write, but then he nearly lost his life (and badly hurt his hand) as a young man by ...

Swing, in its most joyful manifestations, is clearly the thing for French guitar virtuoso Dorado Schmitt. As the name of his band attests, he and The Django All-Stars are devoted to furthering the ...

Django was born in a house near New Beckenham Station. A ropy, semitone flat D'Almaine Piano was the most fascinating toy in the house. He found the clatter of railway workers working throughout the ...