SCHEDULE

7:30pm

May 1, 2008

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TICKETS

$20 all seats

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VENUE
W I C A

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SPECIAL EVENTS
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About the Concert

Links

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PEARL DJANGO
with Connie Evingson




“Romance, mystery, sweetness, pathos, melancholy, ebullient joy—it’s all there.”

That is what Connie Evingson says draws her to the style known as Gypsy swing and that is what she and Pearl Django are going to bring to Whidbey Island . Evingson’s creative take on the genre as well as her silky vocal phrasing and an indelible sense of swing is making her a celebrity outside of Minneapolis , Minnesota , where she’s based. She has appeared in clubs and concert halls across the United States , Europe and Japan ; performed with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony conducted by Doc Severinsen, and the Vocalessence Music Series with Bobby McFerrin; created the original stage production, Fever, A Tribute to Peggy Lee and has released seven CDs on Minnehaha Music. She was featured on the Smithsonian's "Jazz Singers" radio series, and on a number of compilation discs including Jazziz Magazine's Vocals on Fire and Sharper Image's New Sirens of Song along with Diana Krall, Norah Jones and Stacy Kent. Gypsy in My Soul, which features Pearl Django, was in the Top 50 of the Jazzweek chart for 10 weeks and the Top 20 for 4, reaching No. 8. Her latest release Stockholm Sweetnin' charted for 8 weeks in the top 50.

Hot club jazz, or Gypsy swing was born in the exciting and romantic cabaret society of Paris in the mid-1930s. Pioneered and made popular by the brilliant gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and the inspired French violinist Stephane Grappelli, the style has enjoyed a renaissance in both Europe and America in the last decade and Modern Hot Records recording artists Pearl Django have happily been a major player in the western world’s rediscovery of this exciting music. They have become a mainstay on the vibrant international Gypsy jazz scene and remain in demand in the Pacific Northwest and at festivals around the world.

Neil Andersson guitar
Ryan Hoffman guitars
Michael Gray violin
David Lange accordion
Rick Leppanen bass

Special Guest
Connie Evingson vocals

For more information, please visit
www.PearlDjango.com and www.ConnieEvingson.com


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