Gig List Le QuecumBar January

LOOK OUT FOR DJANGOS BIRTHDAY WEEKEND CONCERTS 20/21 JANUARY AND
AURELIENS AND HERVE GYPSY SWING WORKSHOP SUNDAY 20 JANUARY

www.quecumbar.co.uk

MONDAY 14 JANUARY
Award winning Klezmer reedsman Stewart Curtis & his new quartet will be performing an eclectic concoction of swing Jazz, authentic Klezmer & sensuous Tango
STEWART CURTIS and his KLEZMER/SWING QUARTET
Joined by Mark Ridout, Hertforshire’s answer to Django Reinhardt, Ronen Kozokaro, the most charismatic yet sensitive Israeli drummer/percussionist living in North London & finally Paul Tkachenko, the only tuba player to be trained on stilts…however  he promises to be more down to earth at Le QuecumBar.
 “Stew Curtis is unpretentious, musically, and serious fun, jostling klezmer and many other genres promiscuously together” Chris Parker www.stewartcurtis.co.uk Stewart Curtis…clarinet, soprano & tenor saxes, Mark Ridout…guitar Ronen Kozokaro…drums & darbuka, Paul Tkachenko…sousaphone,tuba & bass
tickets www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar or www.QuecumBar.co.uk open at 6 food until 10 £12 door

Tue 15 January
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 16 January
FREE Piano lounge with Mike Head singing swinging and rockin

Thu 17 January
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 18 January
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 !

Sat 19 January
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 DAY 20 JANUARY £35
GYPSY SWING GUITAR WORKSHOP RHYTHM AND SOLO
Herve Gaguenetti and Aurelien Bouly will be running a Gypsy Swing guitar workshop limited places for £35 Sunday day time 11-3 tickets www.quecumbar.co.uk

SUNDAY AND MONDAY 20/21 JANUARY £20
DJANGOS OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT LE QEUCUMBAR COME CELEBRATE DJANGO’S BIRTHDAY
“GYPSY meets GADJO”
Gypsies and non Gypsies joining to musically celebrate Django’s musical legacy.  From France and UK a first time 5 ***** international line up – 2 guitars, 1 bass bristling and a swinging violin full of musical excitement!
French Gypsy AURELIEN BOULY, French Gypsy HERVE GAGUENETTI,
UK’s JONNY GEE and BEN HOLDER
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:
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
HERVE GAGUENETTI: who shares the masters birth date; French Gypsy rhythm guitarist, one of the worlds finest monster players - from the Ritary Gaguenetti Quartet.
JONNY GEE: The QuecumBar Allstars' animated & entertaining bassist - he's recorded & toured with ZUM & Lollo Meier - and turbo-charged Tornado Rosenberg & gigs with Aurélien Bouly & Tcha Limberger. www.jonnygee.co.uk
BEN HOLDER: Undoubtedly one of the UKs finest young Gypsy Swing violin players, energy enthusiasm and personality plus
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. £23 door. Two extraordinary nights

Tue 22 January
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!

Midweek Prestige Performance Concert
WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY
One night only from Spain a night of passionate guitar and song
JOSE MANUEL LEON and ALICIA CARRASCO
Spell binding guitar and vocals
His tone is perfect and pure, his lines are as creative, while remaining tasteful and full of beauty, his style, innovative and fresh.  Performing with his partner Alicia, a singer of repute with the traditional gravelly vocals of Spain, they will entrance you with a haunting and touching performance
Jose, born in Algeciras and started playing the guitar at the age of thirteen. He worked with such a great artists like José el Francés, Niña Pastori, Alejandro Sánz (El tren de los momentos),Pastora Soler, Miguel Angel Rodríguez, Queco, etc. He has performed with International flamenco artists like Gerardo Núñez and Cármen Linares.  He published/produced with the musician Pablo Martín, his first guitar album called “Sirimusa” in 2006, gaining the award of “best flamenco artist” Flamenco´s Critic National Awards The work opened in the Flamenco´s Bienale of Sevilla in 2006.  All tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar or www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10 £15 on the door

Thu 24 January
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 25 January
FREE before 8pm £5 after
Steve Aston Gypsy Swing guitar duo playing the waltzes of the time and swing numbers of the Django era 30’s France lyrical and sensitive

Sat 26 January
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

SUNDAY 27 JANUARY £10
AVA SINGS FOR YOU meet your friends, wine dine and cabaret, with
THE AVA GOLDING TRIO
A DYNAMIC EVENING, GUARANTEED!! FIRST CLASS LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
For your pleasure, piano, trumpet and Ava’s classic vocal style serves you an
EVENING OF NOSTALGIC SWING/JAZZ & Featuring Special GOSPEL of the BLUES Classic’s !
The effervescent Miss A welcomes you to an evening of nostalgic jazz, swing and gospel with no emotional holds barred. You’ll hear good time (and bad time) music delivered in her own sensational style.  From torch song to upbeat her heartfelt interpretation breathes life and warmth into each song. Taking you to laughter, tears and all the stops in between. Be prepared for a dazzling evening of sophisticated fun and musical magic.  www.myspace.com/avagolding
tickets www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar or www.QuecumBar.co.uk open at 6 food until 10 £13 door

MONDAY 28 JANUARY £10
Giacomo Smith's and Robin Katz swinging quintet of 2 guitars, clarinet, trumpet and bass.
CLUB ROYALE
Is it fate's cruel joke to music lovers that two of the greatest Jazz musicians, Django Reinhardt and Sidney Bechet, lived and played in Paris at the same time and yet never recorded together!
What, one might ask, might it have been like…? We shall never know. However, it is precisely the dream of Bechet and Django jamming together in the Paris of the immediate post war period that has inspired the musical styling of Club Royale.
The ‘bark’ of electric Django meeting the ‘roar’ of Bechet’s horn is a hip combination as this groups ‘chamber music swing’ demonstrates with tremendous virtuosity. Featuring the talents of Giacomo Smith (clarinet, soprano sax) and Robin Katz (guitar) and inviting some very special guests, Club Royale will swing it and bring it.
All tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10 All seating allocated on arrival £13 on the door

Tue 29 January
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 30 January
FREE Piano lounge with Mike Head singing swinging and rockin

Thur 31 January
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.

www.quecumbar.co.uk