Some exciting news in the world of music comes from the French Music Bureau (www.french-music.org).  A plethora of top-flight French, French-based  and Francophone musicians will be coming to the UK shortly.

In honour of the 100th Birthday of the legendary Gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt, a new generation of gypsy jazz musicians will be appearing at the Quecumbar in London (www.quecumbar.co.uk) between the 17th and 25th of January 2010 for the International Gypsy Swing Guitar Festival.

French artists include:

David Reinhardt Ensemble (Django’s  grandson):

Adrien Moignard:

Les Doigts de L’Homme:

Ritary Gaguenetti:

Sebastien Giniaux:

and the Parisian chanson quartet Fleur de Paris:

Besides these there will also be the following amazing artists:

from Holland - Stochelo Rosenberg:

Wattie Rosenberg:

Sani Van Mullem:

Paulus Schäfer:

Noah Schäfer:

Lollo Meier:

and Feigeli Prisor:

From Belgium - Tcha Limberger & Vivi Limberger:

From Hungary - Vilmos Csikos:

From Germany - the Kussi Weiss Quintet:

From Spain and Argentina - Biel Ballester Trio:

From the UK - Andy Aitchison and George Trebar:

From Poland - Ducato Piotrowski:

Le Quecumbar is situated at 42-44 Battersea High Street, London, Sw1 3HX - info@quecumbar.co.uk

David Reinhardt will also be performing a free concert at the Institut Francais in Bistrot Couture (London SW7 2DT, South Kensington Tube) on the 15th of January at 6.30pm.

Meanwhile in Glasgow, The Celtic Connections Festival will be playing host to more French-based acts such as the excellent electric oud driven band Speed Caravan and the fantastic songstress Angelique Kidjou.  Full details below:

Jacky and Patrick Molard - Friday 29th January 2010, 8.00pm - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Strathclyde Suite / booking : contact@innacor.com

Kaloome - Thursday 21st January 2010, 7.30pm - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Main Auditorium

Krystle Warren - Wednesday 20th January 2010, 7.30pm - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Main Auditorium / booking : david@serious.org.uk

Le Vent du Nord - Thursday 28th January 2010, 8.00pm - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Strathclyde Suite / booking : info@papave.com

Speed Caravan - Thursday 21st January 2010, 10.00pm - Old Fruitmark / booking : rab@sasa.demon.co.uk

Sylvain Hamon, Xavier Boderiou, Alexis Meunier, Herve Le Floch - Sunday 17th January 2010, 1.00pm - The National Piping Centre

Angélique Kidjo - Friday 22nd January 2010, 9.00pm - Old Fruitmarket / booking : clembunel@me.com

More info on http://www.celticconnections.com/

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