Please find
Dear friends, fans and
supporters,
Please would you be kind
enough to print off this A4 poster and either display or put in your local arts
centre, music shop in fact anywhere people might like to hear of such an event,
in order to support this non profit event – 70 tickets only for each night will
be on sale from November 1st. and we will get work shop details on
sale as soon as we have confirmed venues and musicians taking these work shops
news will on www.quecumbar.co.uk
PRESS
RELEASE FROM LE Q RECORDS & LE QUECUMBAR & BRASSERIE
23
October 2009
Le QuecumBar International Gypsy Swing Guitar
Festival
17-25 January 2010
Some
of the world’s top exponents of Gypsy Swing will be gathering in
DJANGO
REINHARDT
A
nine-day festival of concerts and workshops featuring
Europe’s finest Gypsy and non-Gypsy musicians will be the
biggest collection of Gypsy Swing talent in the
The
event marks a cultural milestone in the history of jazz, celebrating the life of
the founder of Gypsy swing, Django Reinhardt, who generated musical waves around
the globe that today still influence the 1,000s of guitarists worldwide who
follow in his legendary footsteps.
Each
performance will take the form of a private concert with audience members able
to hear the guitar performed acoustically in an intimate period environment and
even meet with performers after the show.
Sylvia Rushbrooke, who is organising the festival, commented: “Django
Reinhardt’s impact on 20th Century guitar music is undeniable – musicians as
varied as Julian Bream, Les Paul, BB King, George Benson, George Harrison and
Jimi Hendrix have all paid tribute to Django as inspiration and
innovator.
Django’s music
is as fresh today as it was 80 years ago. When people hear this music
performed live in the intimate setting of a Parisian café – or, even better
still – round a camp fire, they find themselves irresistibly seduced by
the fierce sweetness of the music, and the verve and skill of its
players.”
Workshops are being arranged around
The festival, which is supported by the
National Lottery through Arts Council England, will be hosted at Le QuecumBar
& Brasserie, the world famous home of Gypsy Swing in
ENDS
For
further
Sylvia Rushbrooke info_at_QuecumBar_dot_co_dot_uk 020 7787
2225
About Le QuecumBar & Brasserie
Le QuecumBar &
Brasserie www.quecumbar.co.uk was
established by Sylvia Rushbrooke in 2003. It has live music seven nights a
week and is the only live music venue in the world to be dedicated entirely to
Django Reinhardt, Gypsy Swing and those who perform it. A style born in
1930s
Notes to Editors:
1. Le QuecumBar
International Gypsy Swing Guitar Festival is being hosted at Le QuecumBar &
Brasserie,
2. The Festival is
organised by Le Q Records, and is supported by the National Lottery through Arts
Council England. To find out more about The Arts Council visit www.artscouncil.org
3. Le Q Records
is Le QuecumBar’s own record label. A small independent, it records and
distributes CDs of Gypsy Swing jazz, most of which are recordings of live
concerts performed at Le QuecumBar. It has released seven albums to
date. One of these is “Stars of Gypsy Swing”, comprising tracks by Le
Quecumbar’s patrons to raise awareness of this genre. Guitarist and
composer Hank Marvin is just one of the Le QuecumBar’s patrons; he donated his
first ever Gypsy Swing recordings to the label in support of its work in
promoting this genre. To find out more about Le Q Records, visit www.leqrecords.com.
4. Django Reinhardt
compositions have featured in a number of films: “The Aviator”,
“Head in the Clouds”, “Chocolat”, “The Matrix” and “Julie and Julia”.
Jonny Depp and Woody Allen are known to be avid Django fans. Jonny Depp played
Django and Stephane Grapelli’s best-known composition, Minor Swing, in
“Chocolat”. Woody Allen, who made “Sweet and Lowdown” as a tribute to
Django, included Gypsy jazz tracks in the soundtrack for his recent film, “Vicky
Cristina Barcelona”. This film featured music from two of Le QuecumBar’s
patrons, Biel Ballester and Stephane Wrembel.
4. The Festival is also
supported by the European Commission Representation in the
5. Le QuecumBar
International Gypsy Swing Guitar Festival will bring together the following
musicians for the first time ever in the following concerts:
Sunday
17th January 2010 £20
David Reinhardt, French
Gypsy, guitar
Sébastien Giniaux, French, guitar
Adrien Moignard, French,
guitar
Ducato Piotrowski,
Polish Gypsy, guitar,
Supported by:
Fleur de
Paris
Quartet of 1930s Parisian Café chanson
(Lo Polidoro French,
vocals
Christian DuPont
Kirsten Hammond
Martin Brown
Monday 18th
January 2010 £15
Les Doigts de l’Homme,
(Olivier Kikteff, French,
guitar & banjo
Yannick Alcocer, French, guitar
Tanguy Blum, French,
bass
Benoit Convert, French, guitar)
Tuesday 19th January 2010
£15
(
Vivi Limberger, Belgian Gypsy, guitar and vocals
Vilmos Csikos,
Hungarian, bass)
Wednesday 20th January 2010
£20
Paulus Schäfer, Dutch Gypsy, guitar
Noah Schäfer, Dutch Gypsy,
bass
Andy Aitchison,
Ducato Piotrowski,
Polish Gypsy, guitar (
Thursday 21st
January 2010 £15
The
(Patron Biel Ballester,
Spanish, guitar
Graci Pedro, Spanish, guitar
Leo Hipaucha, Argentinean,
bass)
Friday 22nd £20
Gypsy
Connection
(Kussi Weiss, German Gypsy, guitar
Tschabo Franzen, German
Gypsy, guitar
Hugo Richter, German Gypsy, accordion
Dietmar
Osterburg, German, bass
Freddy Wicke German, guitar and vocals)
Saturday 23rd January 2010 (Django’s Birthday) £25
Patron Lollo Meier,
Dutch Gypsy, guitar
Kussi Weiss, German
Gypsy, guitar
Dietmar Osterburg, German, bass
Hugo Richter, German Gypsy,
accordion
Sunday 24th January 2010
£25
Patron Lollo Meier,
Dutch Gypsy, guitar
Feigeli Prisor, Dutch
Gypsy, guitar
Sani Van Mullem, Dutch Gypsy, bass
Wattie Rosenberg, Dutch
Gypsy, violin
Monday 25th January 2010
£30
Stochelo Rosenberg,
Dutch Gypsy, guitar
Patron Lollo Meier,
Sani Van Mullem, Dutch Gypsy, bass
Wattie Rosenberg, Dutch Gypsy,
violin
An interest for advance
tickets and workshops can be registered at
SPONSORS:
Many thanks
to our generous sponsors assisting their country men to attend and for
recognising the cultural value of this unique event. Without their help this
would not be taking place Sylvia, Monika and Kevin of Le Q
Records
Goethe
Institut
s j berwin LLP
www.stringbusters.com
Brian Potts
Customer and supporter Ivor Young of Prism Leisure Ltd Licensing &
Distribution
Perrier
sparkling water
bureau export french-music.org
Embassy of
the Federal Republic of Germany
Sponsoring "Gipsy Connection"
featuring Kussi Weiss
Embassy of the
Belgian Tourist Office -
“The South of
OLSWANG LLP
LOTTERY
FUNDED Arts Council
EU COMMISSION
representation in the
Seafrance -
the way to
SeaFrance
Dover - Calais Ferries, proud to support Le Q Records & Le QuecumBar
International Gypsy Swing Guitar Festival celebrating the 100th birthday of
Django Reinhardt. SeaFrance operates up to 15 daily return crossings on
the Dover-Calais route please visit seafrance.com for more
details.
Many thanks and
regards
Sylvia
Rushbrooke~Proprietaire
Le
QuecumBar & Brasserie
“
42-44
Battersea High St
0207 787
2227
info_at_quecumbar_dot_co_dot_uk
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Django
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A style
born in 30
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Le Q Records capturing live moments of musical magic
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Proud to
have the support and approval of our world class musician
patrons:
Angelo
DeBarre guitar French Gypsy.
John
Jorgenson guitar, clarinet USA
Dave
Kelbie rhythm guitar UK
John
Etheridge guitar UK
Lollo
Meier guitar Dutch Gypsy
Robin
Nolan guitar Holland
Hank
Marvin guitar UK
Andreas
Oberg guitar Sweden
Stephane
Wrembel guitar France
Ritary
Gaguenetti guitar French Gypsy
Biel
Ballester Trio guitar Spain
Gary
Potter guitar UK
Moreno
guitar French Gypsy
Kevin Nolan
rhythm guitar UK
Aurore (Voilqué
) Quartet violin France
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