Gonzalo Bergara Quintet – Hot Club Gypsy Jazz!

Siskiyou Music Project welcomes back guitarist Gonzalo Bergara and his Quintet for a concert on Thursday, September 29 at 7 p.m. at the Grizzly Peak Winery Performance Space in Ashland.

The Gonzalo Bergara Quartet (GBQ) explores a modern variant of the 1930s Django Reinhardt-inspired sound. The Quartet’s first CD, Porteña Soledad, was Editor’s Pick in Guitar Player Magazine, and Vintage Guitar Magazine called it a “masterpiece.” The music is heavily influenced by Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France, as well as the traditional jazz and music of Bergara’s true home, Buenos Aires. “Gonzalo Bergara’s music exists in a way that very little music does. He has lavished such care on every phrase, built each arrangement with such lapidary precision and pared away anything extraneous, the music becomes sculpture. It has weight, density, gravity. This is serious….and deeply moving.

Tickets ($30) are available at the Siskiyou Music Project website.