Health & Fitness
Throckmorton Theatre’s 10th Annual DjangoFest Kicks Off June 6
Two-day celebration of the music pioneered by Django Reinhardt features three concerts, six workshops and an epic jam session by 18 of the top gypsy jazz musicians in the world.
As the Throckmorton Theatre continues to mark its 10th anniversary this year, it’s also celebrating some of the landmark events it spawned in its inaugural year.
Among them is DjangoFest, the celebration of Django Reinhardt and the “hot” jazz sound he pioneered.
Born in Belgium in 1910, Reinhardt spent most of his youth in Basque Gypsy encampments close to Paris and began performing guitar, violin and banjo professionally at an early age. When he was 18, Reinhardt was dreadfully injured in a fire, leaving the third and fourth digits on his left hand severely damaged. To adapt to that predicament, Reinhardt developed a style of playing that emphasized his undamaged fingers and would later give birth to his signature “gypsy jazz” sound.
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