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Tickets On Sale Now For DjangoVegas! Jazz Guitar Concert June 27
Annual Celebration Featuring Award-Winning Django-Style Jazz Musicians 6-10 P.M.
DjangoVegas!, an annual jazz manouche concert, returns to the Las Vegas Historic Fifth Street School, 401 S. Fourth St., in downtown Las Vegas Saturday, June 27, from 6 to 10 p.m. The annual indoor musical celebration pays tribute to the roots, origins and established figures of hot club-style jazz and the music of legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt. Doors to the air-conditioned auditorium will open at 5:30 p.m.
This year, the lineup includes international jazz guitarist/composer/arranger/professor Eleonora Strino and Jessica Fichot, as well as The Hot Club of Las Vegas featuring Leah Zeger. Convenient parking is available across the street in the city garage at 455 S. Third St. (garage entrance is on Third Street). Parking at the Fifth Street School also is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
A limited number of assigned $40 premium seats are available for purchase, along with $25 general admission seats available on a first-come, first-served basis. Purchase tickets here. If available, event day tickets will be sold at the box office. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.
Eleonora Strino began playing guitar as a teenager, studied at the conservatory in Naples, Italy, and in Amsterdam before beginning her professional career as first guitar in an orchestra. She played festivals all over Europe and recorded her first album with fellow guitarist Greg Cohen. Since then, she has become a bandleader, collaborator on many music projects and albums, toured Europe playing concerts many times, including as a featured performer on The Great Guitars tour.
Chanteuse, songwriter and accordionist Jessica Fichot grew up in Paris but now is based in Los Angeles. Like her multi-ethnic French/Chinese/American upbringing, her music is a fusion of styles and languages — gypsy jazz, 1940s Chinese swing, international folk and French chanson. She has more than 100 children’s songs published in a dozen countries, records and performs with her band and creates music and sound effects for independent video games.
Local DjangoVegas alumni, Mundo Juillerat's The Hot Club of Las Vegas, will perform separately as well as back the solo guitarists. The band, which started as a passion project, performs Django jazz music past and present, as well as boleros, flamenco, rhumbas and more.
Violinist, vocalist and composer Leah Zeger hails from Houston, but has performed all over the world, touring with renowned bands as a solo violinist. Trained as a classical violinist and opera singer, and she enjoys performing at jazz clubs and festivals with her jazz quartet or husband/wife duo in the greater Los Angeles area, where she currently resides.
Click here for tickets; for more information for this and other events, visit www.lasvegasnevada.gov/Discover or call 702-229-ARTS (2787).
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Editor's Note: Photos of the entertainers and parking map may be downloaded here; no password is required.
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