The Seaside Django Festival

The Seaside Django Festival 

Nov 10 Hermann's Upstairs. 8:00pm Showtime, 7:00pm doors

Nov 11 The Bodine Hall at Mary Winspear Centre. 7:00pm

Showtime, 6:00pm doors

Line-up

Lache Cercel & The Roma Swing Ensemble

Petunia & The Vipers

Club Voltaire

Dance Floor, Seating and Full Line-up both nights

Tickets $50 – www.folknfiddle.ca

https://folknfiddle.ca/the-seaside-django-festival

Celebrating the music of the great Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France, The Seaside Django Festival brings together some of the world's top Roma-Swing performers November 10 at Hermann's Upstairs and November 11th at The Mary Winspear Centre.

Big things are brewing in the Victoria Django Scene! Founded in 2012 The Victoria Django Festival is now The Seaside Django Festival. Artistic Director Oliver Swain has been working with The Seaside Folkn’fiddle Festival for the past three years, this non-profit arts organization is now the presenter for Victoria’s Django festival. “It’s been a wonderful few years working with the board of directors for Folkn’Fiddle, when they suggested we present The Victoria Django Festival the move just felt right.” – Oliver Swain

In addition to the Victoria Night at Hermann’s Upstairs, The Seaside Django Festival is also expanding to The Mary Winspear Centre, Home of the Folkn’Fiddle Festival.

Line-up

Lache Cercel & The Roma Swing Ensemble

Petunia & The Vipers

Club Voltaire

Lache Cercel & The Roma Swing Ensemble

Fresh off recent performances in Romania, notably at The Nation Museum in Bucharest with Oliver Swain, Lache Cercel(violin) is cementing his reputation as one of the world’s leading Roma-Swing performers. They are currently booking a 2024 tour of Europe including dates in the EU and the Balkans.

Lache Cercel was born in Bucharest, Romania and studied at Romania’s prestigious Academy of Arts. In 1986 he was awarded the “Artist of the People'' citation from the Romanian government, one of the highest honours in the Balkans. Cercel’s music is firmly rooted in Roma (Gypsy) tradition, combined with Doina Klezmer, Middle Eastern, and European sounds held together with jazz improvisation. In the tradition of Django Reinhardt and Stephen Grappelli, Cercel lays down classical and improvisational jazz alongside traditional Roma melodies. https://lachecercel.com/

Petunia & The Vipers

Petunia & the Vipers play original music combining elements of classic 1920’s, 30’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s country, country blues, western swing, alt country rock, Mexicana, French cabaret, Romanian, ragtime, jazz, punk and folk music’s. A new music that springboards off of music of the past and jumps into the present day...Something in between 1920’s and steampunk. https://petuniaandthevipers.com/

Club Voltaire

Featuring Richard Moody, Adam Dobres, Oliver Swain and Paul Dowd. With decades of experience in Roma-Swing and related styles, Club Voltaire applies their devotion to the genre to both traditional repertoire and modern compositions by the likes of Tom Waits and Miles Davis.

https://oliverswain.com/club-voltaire