Django Festival Allstars

Outpost is happy to once again be partnering with the Taos Jazz Bebop Society’s annual Frank Morgan Jazz Festival. A regular at the festival, we will once again present the ever-popular Django Festival Allstars (DFA)! With their unique, high-energy tribute to the “hot jazz” of legendary Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, this brilliantly cohesive group of world class musicians, founded by legendary gypsy guitarist and violinist Dorado Schmitt (who will be part of this fall 2024 tour), has developed their exciting and refined sound for the past 20 years, performing at top concert halls and festivals to standing ovations worldwide. Reinhardt’s driving, swinging style, which “harkens back to the 30s and 40s in Europe where he teamed up with the great jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli, creating The Hot Club Quintette of France, one of the greatest musical partnerships in European Jazz history. ‘Hot-swing’ has its roots in American popular music and in the reverence for Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and other top American jazz figures, and the DFA take the music fully into the 21st century with their own creative interpretations, arrangements, and original compositions.  “There’s nothing like The Django Festival Allstars to bring pure JOY to an audience . . .  Their music reaches right into your heart and brings ‘smiles’ a mile long . . . as the music is ‘happy’, infectious, and full of love.” For this concert, DFA features Dorado Schmitt and Sons – Samson Schmitt and Amati Schmitt, guitars, plus Francko Mehrstein, guitar, and Gino Roman, bass.