Django Reinhardt Birthday Celebration Concert with Montana Manouche and Hot Club of Cowtown

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Montana Manouche presents their 5th annual concert celebrating the music of Django Reinhardt. Born on January 23, 1910, Django Reinhardt created the genre of music known as Jazz Manouche (or Gypsy Jazz). Montana Manouche will open the concert. The second set features the Austin, Texas-based hot jazz and Western swing trio Hot Club of Cowtown! HCCT blends the traditional Western swing of Bob Wills and Milton Brown with the European hot string jazz of the same era made famous by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. The trio—Elana James (violin), Whit Smith (guitar) and Jake Erwin (bass)--sings in three-part harmony, writes its own original songs, and reinterprets everything from hoedowns to American songbook standards in its own, original style.

Voted Ameripolitan Western Swing Group of the Year 2015 and inducted into the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame in 2004, HCCT has toured with Bob Dylan and others and represented Texas music throughout the world for the US State Department from Azerbaijan to the Sultanate of Oman. Eleven studio albums, a global following, and the relentless passion of its live shows are the band's continuing trademark.

“...Spirit, originality and skill that would surely have impressed Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt back in the 1930s.” -The Guardian (London) 2009

Dancers welcome. Advance tickets $17, available online and at Whiskey Creek in Livingston. $20 at the door.