Le QuecumBar - Change of gigs for September - Gary Potter rocks Le Que with Aurleien and Ritary and Jonny - Belgian violinist extraordinaire SUNDAY DAY 9 SEPTEMBER £35 GYPSY SWING GUITAR WORKSHOP WITH FRENCH GYPSIES: RITARY GAGUENETTI & AURELIEN BOULY For all levels of rhythm and solo AURELIEN BOULY: French Gypsy guitarist and virtuoso soloist of the European Gypsy band Tarné Spilari a group that perpetuates the Django routes. www.aurelienbouly.com RITARY GAGUENETTI: French Gypsy master guitarist, composer and virtuoso soloist of the International Gypsy band Ritary Gaguenetti Quartet a group that does it all from Django routes to jazz heights. Both musicians are band leaders, composers, teachers and arrangers and learnt their skill the Gypsy way handed down from father to son without reading music and the freedom to improvise without boundaries Tickets at www.quecumbar.co.uk SUNDAY/MONDAY EVE 9/10 SEPTEMBER £20 From France and UK a 5 ***** international line up 3 guitars and 1 bass bristling with musical excitement! two extraordinary nights! UK’s finest Gypsy Swing player GARY POTTER is joined by Gypsy masters RITARY GAGUENETTI, AURELIEN BOULY, and UK master bassist JONNY GEE in“GADJO meets GYPSY” Non Gypsies and Gypsies musically celebrating Django’s legacy. A sell out performance the first time they ever played together, they are back NOW!! With this cracking line up anything could happen – but whatever it is, it will be a fantastic Gypsy Swing weekend one that Django would be proud of led by: GARY POTTER: Undoubtedly UKs finest Gypsy Swing guitar genius, jazz maestro and finger picking country wizard www.garypottermusic.co.uk JONNY GEE: of The QuecumBar Allstars\' animated & entertaining bassist, he\'s recorded & toured with ZUM & Lollo Meier, giged with Tornado Rosenberg, Aurélien Bouly & Tcha Limberger. www.jonnygee.co.uk AURELIEN BOULY: French Gypsy guitarist and virtuoso soloist of the European Gypsy band Tarné Spilari a group that perpetuates the Django routes. www.aurelienbouly.com RITARY GAGUENETTI: French Gypsy master guitarist, composer and virtuoso soloist of the International Gypsy band Ritary Gaguenetti Quartet a group that does it all from Django routes to jazz heights. Concert tickets from www.quecumbar.co.uk www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar Open at 6, food until 10, diners get preferential seating allocated on arrival, tables of two may be required to share. Tue 11 September TUESDAYS FREE SIZZLING GYPSY SWING JAM Jam session led by top Le QuecumBar bass players many QuecumBar Allstars. You saw Johnny Depp in Chocolate play Minor Swing, Django style. See and hear it live in our intimate 1930s Parisian cabaret brasserie. Chill out with a bottle of quaffable wine and simple food always a great night full of musical surprises, transporting you to the swinging streets of Montmartre with all the colour and joy of the Belle Epoch. If you play swing then bring your instrument! Wed 12 September FREE Piano lounge with Mike Head singing swinging and rockin Thu 13 September FREE before 8pm £5 after - Weekly residency SWINGING CATS Led by Richard White, well-known multi-instrumentalist and whispering vocalist on clarinet, bass sax (or anything else that comes to hand!) accompanied either by sensational pianist Colin Good or world-class jazz guitarist Martin Wheatley. The Swinging Cats invite you to take a sentimental journey of vintage versatility – rare 1920s tunes, torch-songs, novelties and red-hot instrumental jazz - all generously seasoned with their own distinctive brand of irreverent quirkiness. Fri 14 September FREE before 8pm £5 after "Radio Daze".. formed in 2004 as a duo from a chance meeting at the QuecumBar... David Ahmed & Faebhean Kwest. Both Guitarists and the core of the Radio Daze sound. Other musicians have been delighted to join with them bass players, violinists, accordionists, clarinettists etc.. they have played in Britain and France and their 7 different CDs for sale reflect their cosmopolitan music, which encompasses both 1930\'s, 40\'s and even 50s/60\'s sounds. http://www.radiodaze.biz/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVv6fVjK0eM Sat 15 September FREE before 8pm £5 after Laurence Corn Dogs duo, guitar, vocals and mucho musical swing mayhem - This is entertainment at its best acoustic fun bound to get your feet tapping and hands clapping SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER £10 Syncopating and Slick THE NEVADA STREET FOUR A quartet specialising in music rooted in hot jazz of the 1920s and 30s with the light hearted fun to match. They conjure up the foot tapping sounds of the Gatsby era Entertaining with their cultivated distinctive sound, made up of four stunningly accomplished instrumentalists featuring some of the UK’s finest exponents of 20s and 30s Jazz. The group unites Le QuecumBar’s popular Thursday night resident duo, Richard White (reeds) and Colin Good (piano), with Malcolm Earle-Smith (trombone), and Martin Wheatley (guitar). Delivering a mix of New Orleans classics and Tin Pan Alley favourites along with delightful 4-part vocals of tunes by George Gershwin and Hoagy Carmichael, among others. Generating a great sense of fun into their performances the band has a reputation of enchanting audiences with their high standard of musicianship and entertaining camaraderie that has musical charm by the boat load! http://www.myspace.com/video/173769125/somebody-loves-me/107339481. . Tickets at www.wegottickets.com and www.quecumbar.co.uk £13 on the door, open at 6 food until 10 your table will be allocated on arrival, diners get preferential seating. MONDAY 17 SEPTEMBER £10 A fresh mix of Gypsy melodies, Latin rhythms and middle eastern influences played by a virtuoso guitarist and his band. ANDREA QUINTARELLI TRIO His brilliant improvisations, fast picking, Gypsy feeling with a rich musical international vocabulary, have made him a true artist, his musical creativity shines in his beautiful compositions. The trio: Maurizio Minardi on accorion, Viktor Obsust on double bass and of course Andrea Quintarelli on guitar. Performing some of the tracks from Andrea\'s album BAZAAR, inspired by his journeys, blending Latin soul with Balkan and Oriental melodies with Middle Eastern flavours. The songs are about colours and people met in markets around the world that are exceptionally sensitive and also energetic melodies and wild improvisations - this concert offers a wonderful spectrum of musical nuance http://www.myspace.com/andreaquintarelli All tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar or www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10 £13 on the door Tue 18 September TUESDAYS FREE SIZZLING GYPSY SWING JAM Jam session led by top Le QuecumBar bass players many QuecumBar Allstars. You saw Johnny Depp in Chocolate play Minor Swing, Django style. See and hear it live in our intimate 1930s Parisian cabaret brasserie. Chill out with a bottle of quaffable wine and simple food always a great night full of musical surprises, transporting you to the swinging streets of Montmartre with all the colour and joy of the Belle Epoch. If you play swing then bring your instrument! Wed 19 September FREE Piano lounge with Mike Head singing swinging and rockin Thu 20 September FREE before 8pm £5 after - Weekly residency SWINGING CATS Led by Richard White, well-known multi-instrumentalist and whispering vocalist on clarinet, bass sax (or anything else that comes to hand!) accompanied either by sensational pianist Colin Good or world-class jazz guitarist Martin Wheatley. The Swinging Cats invite you to take a sentimental journey of vintage versatility – rare 1920s tunes, torch-songs, novelties and red-hot instrumental jazz - all generously seasoned with their own distinctive brand of irreverent quirkiness. Fri 21 September FREE before 8pm £5 after "Les Enfants Déspicable!" TOP SHELF JAZZ TRIO Direct from Lucifer’s drinks cabinet: a band whose original tunes are so distinctive and licentious that they spawned their own delectable style: ‘Filthy Swing’. Impeccable vulgarity & sartorial elegance. Sat 22 September FREE before 8pm £5 after AVA GOLDING our golden girl and classic entertainer SINGS FOR YOUR pleasure with piano accompaniment. Ava’s classic vocal style serves you an EVENING OF NOSTALGIC SWING/JAZZ & features special GOSPEL of the BLUES Classic’s ! SUNDAY/MONDAY 23/24 SEPTEMBER £15 The great International Belgian violinist ALEXANDRE CAVALIERE GYPSY TRIO Alexandre; violin, Manu Bonetti : guitare solo & Walter Gonella : rythmic guitar Alexandre Cavaliere was born in 1985 into a musical family, surrounded by musical instruments. Rocked by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli\'s melodies, musical swing comes naturally. His joy of playing is visible and highly infectious, the crowds love him! From television, to radio and concerts his performances shine and enrapture European crowds at Antibes- Juan-les-Pins, Marciac, Samois-sur-Seine, Liege, Liberchies, Gaûme, Maubeuge, the jazz marathon of Brussels, the Eurojazz Awards and the Belgian Tourist office in London. At 6 he played snare drum in his father\'s orchestra, at 8 the piano, drums, and then the violin where he best expresses his improvisation and great musical sensitivity. In 1998 whilst rehearsing with his fathers band Jazzy Strings, overheard by Didier Lockwood, Babik Reinhardt and Frank Hagège they were surprised to discover a 12-year-old holding the violin.! Astonished at his virtuosity they invite him to Django d\' Or, Brussels, and then Paris, his success, immediate … from which "L\'ALBUM " is born (Hébra records). Thanks to Dorado Schmitt whom he accompanied at the NEW YORK Django Reinhardt festival at BIRDLAND, he has met and played with the worlds best of this genre Bireli Lagrene, Dominique Dipiazza, Stochelo Rosenberg, Michel Jonasz, Roby Lakatos, Toots Thielemans, Richard Galliano, Eddy Louis, Dennis Chambers and Richard Bona. All tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar or www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10 £15 on the door Tue 25 September TUESDAYS FREE SIZZLING GYPSY SWING JAM Jam session led by top Le QuecumBar bass players many QuecumBar Allstars. You saw Johnny Depp in Chocolate play Minor Swing, Django style. See and hear it live in our intimate 1930s Parisian cabaret brasserie. Chill out with a bottle of quaffable wine and simple food always a great night full of musical surprises, transporting you to the swinging streets of Montmartre with all the colour and joy of the Belle Epoch. If you play swing then bring your instrument! Wed 26 September FREE Piano lounge with Mike Head singing swinging and rockin Thu 27 September FREE before 8pm £5 after - Weekly residency SWINGING CATS Led by Richard White, well-known multi-instrumentalist and whispering vocalist on clarinet, bass sax (or anything else that comes to hand!) accompanied either by sensational pianist Colin Good or world-class jazz guitarist Martin Wheatley. The Swinging Cats invite you to take a sentimental journey of vintage versatility – rare 1920s tunes, torch-songs, novelties and red-hot instrumental jazz - all generously seasoned with their own distinctive brand of irreverent quirkiness. Fri 28 September FREE before 8pm £5 after Steve Aston and Carlo Butera Django Reinhardt style Gypsy Swing ensemble talented young and here Sat 29 September FREE before 8pm £5 after Magical STEPHANE GRAFFITI with the full on singing swinging violin vixen Noreen Cullen and rocking vocals/guitar from Adrian Burns a night of Swing, Gypsy, Jazz, Celtic and Classical musical magical mayhem SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER £10 Young talented virtuosos playing Hot Django Gypsy Swing BEN HOLDER SWING ENSEMBLE Talented and versatile – this ensemble have joined together for a one night concert – anything could happen, skilled beyond their years, Kourosh Kanani and Remi Harris on guitars - Tom Moore on double bass, all lead by crowd pleaser and favourite - the dynamic young and animated Ben Holder on sizzling swinging violin! With all this talent in one band you will be introduced to Hot Club Django style with individual virtuosos melding their talents for an evening of swinging lilting Gypsy Swing direct from the heart of 30’s Paris and the streets of Montmartre. Open at 6 food until 10 your table will be allocated on arrival, diners get preferential seating. Tickets from www.quecumbar.co.uk www.wegottickets.com £13 door www.QuecumBar.co.uk
