Django
Drom: featuring Didier
Lockwood, Birelli Lagrene and Stochelo Rosenberg
Thursday 15 July
8.30pm
Barbican
Hall
£10/15/25
Produced by the
Barbican
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=10568
Legendary gypsy-jazz
guitarist Django Reinhardt would have turned 100 this year; Django Drom is a
stunning multi-media work created by film-maker Tony Gatlif to celebrate his
centenary. Jean Baptiste ‘Django’ Reinhardt was born on January 23, 1910
in Liberchies, a small town in Eastern Belgium. He was a Sinto, a tribe of
nomadic peoples closely related to the Roma (Gypsies). Despite a severe hand
injury, he was a multi-instrumentalist but is best known one of jazz’s great
guitar virtuosos. Django Reinhardt died on May 16, 1953 in Fontainebleau,
France.
Photo
by Daniele Mouyal
The Music and Media show, Django Drom featuring violinist Didier
Lockwood and guitarists Birelli Lagrene and Stochelo
Rosenberg, explores the gypsy roots of Django’s genius as well as his
dazzling achievements in jazz.
‘This misrepresented
and fantastic creature, at once so captivating and so divorced from the
contentions of his age’ – Charles Delauney
on Django Reinhardt
Freestage 7-8pm: Trio
Manouche are a world-class gypsy swing ensemble performing the works of Django
Reinhardt and their own up-beat quirky original compositions in the style of Hot
Club de France, bringing a uniquely contemporary take on the repertoire. In 2010
they have set themselves the challenge of performing 100 gigs to mark the
centenary of Django Reinhardt's birth including performances at Royal Festival
Hall, The Mostly Jazz Festival, Secret Garden Party and Glastonbury
Festival.
Born in Algiers, Tony Gatlif
arrived in France following the Algerian War of Independence. He struggled for
years to break into the film industry,
playing in several theatrical
productions. Since his 1981 feature Corre, Gitano, Gatlif's work has been
focused on the Roma people of Europe, from whom he
partially traces his descent. Exils (2004), won the Best Director Award
at Cannes Film Festival where Transylvania was
premiered in 2006. In Gatlif’s extraordinary multi-media presentation,
hundreds of rarely seen Django photographs are projected, along with the few
known pieces of moving film of the great virtuoso.
Concert at the
Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS
Box Office: 0845 120
7550 https://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing/selectseatblock.asp
More
Information on
http://www.paulvernonchester.com/Django%27sCentenary.htm
Enjoy
Eddie
Fowler on behalf of
www.PaulVernonChester.com
Gypsy
Jazz Guitarist Extraordinaire
Manouche Maestro
Gypsy
Jazz MasterClass Workshop
01844 353 117