Austin’s Hot Club of Cowtown fronts Attic-hosted Django Reinhardt celebration
Mark your calendars! Austin, Texas-based Hot Club of Cowtown will join Montana Manouche for its 5th annual Django Reinhardt Birthday Celebration Concert commemorating his musical legacy. Born in January 1910, Reinhardt, with the help of violinist Stéphane Grappelli, created the genre of music known as Jazz Manouche (or Gypsy Jazz).
This year’s concert will be held at Livingston’s Attic on Sunday, January 26th. The music begins at 7pm. Advance tickets to this 21+ show are $17 (plus service fees). Doors at 6pm. Dancers are welcome.
Bozeman’s own Montana Manouche will open the show, playing many of Reinhardt’s compositions. In 2019, Montana Manouche released Live, an album of songs recorded at the 2018 Big Sky Gypsy Jazz Festival and last year’s birthday celebration show.
Hot Club of Cowtown, a hot jazz and Western swing trio out of the Lone Star State, blends the traditional Western swing of Bob Wills and Milton Brown with the European hot string jazz of the same era made famous by Reinhardt and 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 2015’s Ameripolitan Western Swing Group of the Year and inducted into the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame in 2004, Hot Club of Cowtown has toured with Bob Dylan, among 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.
London music journalist Robin Denselow writes, “…Spirit, originality and skill that would surely have impressed Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt back in the 1930s” (The Guardian).
Advanced ticketing information for all upcoming Attic shows is available at www.theatticmontana.com. The Attic is located at 110 N Main in Livingston, just above Whiskey Creek Saloon. •