Event Listing - Music

Thu Jul 31 - Sun Aug 3

The Django Festival

Starring Dorado Schmitt, with Special Guest Larry Coryell

Tel. (510) 238-9200
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Location	Date and Time
Yoshi's Oakland 510 Embarcadero West Oakland, CA 94607 map cross street: Jack London Square district: Oakland (West)	Thu Jul 31 (8pm & 10pm) Fri Aug 1 (8pm & 10pm) Sat Aug 2 (8pm & 10pm) Sun Aug 3 (7pm & 9pm)

Description

Launched in 2000 in New York, the Django Reinhardt Festival was the first-ever festival of Django’s music in America. Now it returns to Yoshi’s, where it enjoyed great success several years ago. Legendary Gypsy guitarist Dorado Schmitt is showcased along with his son, the young Gypsy star Samson Schmitt. They carry on the legacy of Django and his fiery, virtuosic, romantic music, which has its roots in American popular music and in the reverence for artists such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. The Festival will also feature the young Dutch pianist Peter Beets; guitarist Howard Alden, who performed the music in Sweet and Low Down, Woody Allen’s film about Django; the Festival’s regular bassist Brian Torff, who toured for years with Django’s partner Stephane Grappelli; and, as special guest, the master guitar improviser Larry Coryell.