Stephane Wrembel, one of the most original guitar voices in contemporary music, presents Django a Gogo Festival celebrating the life and music of legendary musician, Django Reinhardt, with an interactive guitar workshop and two very special concerts.
Made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States
Django A Gogo Festival Bundle
Spend the day with Stephane Wrembel and his talented ensemble. Enjoy two distinct concert performances as well as the interactive guitar workshop. The Festival Bundle includes access to each performance for 1-week after the live broadcast.
Workshop with Stephane Wrembel
This guitar workshop is a master class on rhythm and improvisation in the context of the Django Reinhardt style. Improvising is often thought to be a relationship between scales and chords, but in reality it is about inventing melodies on the spot. How does a melody work? What is the role of harmony and rhythm in creating melodies? And how did Django Reinhardt conceive it?
The workshop is open to all ages, levels and instruments. Participants will be able to submit questions to Mr. Wrembel to which he will respond.
The Django Experiment
For this show, Wrembel will primarily perform songs from his 2020 release, The Django Experiment V, accompanied by long-time collaborators Thor Jensen (guitar), Ari Folman Cohen (bass), Nick Anderson (drums) with special guests Nick Driscoll on saxophone and clarinet and Daisy Castro on violin.
Django a Gogo All-Stars
A full 8 piece band will perform the traditional Django Reinhardt repertoire for the grand finale of Django a Go Go. This supergroup, including Wrembel, Thor Jensen (guitar), Ari Folman Cohen (bass), Nick Anderson (drums), Nick Driscoll (saxophone and clarinet), Daisy Castro (violin) with special guests David Langlois (washboard) and Josh Kaye (oud and guitar), quite simply presents some of the most highly regarded jazz musicians in the country on one stage for a magical night of music in a setting conducive to improvisation with each musician pushing their own boundaries to evoke new interpretations of Reinhardt’s music as well as a few songs by other jazz and gypsy jazz composers