FALL 2025 TOUR
Samson Schmitt, Ludovic Beier, Pierre Blanchard, Antonio Licusati, and Francko Mehrstein
Produced by Pat Philips, Co-Founder Ettore Stratta
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Nov
11/13: Sony Hall – Django Reinhart NY Festival CONCERT Celebrating 25 years
New York, NY
11/16: Dakota Jazz Club
Minneapolis, MN
11/18: Musical Instrument Museum
Phoenix, AZ
11/19: Atheneum Music and Arts Library
SCRIPPS RESEARCH AUDITORIUM
San Diego, CA
11/20: Raymond Kabazz Theater
Los Angeles, CA
11/21: The Lobero Theater
Santa Barbara, CA
11/22: Healdsburg Jazz Festival
Healdsburg, CA
11/23: Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Half Moon Bay, CA
11/26: Beale Street Theatre
Kingman, AZ
11/28: Grass Valley Center for the Arts
Grass Valley, CA
11/30: SFJAZZ
San Francisco, CA
Dec
12/1: Kuumbwa Jazz
Santa Cruz, CA
Stage Plot
Band Descriptions
Read November 2022 Birdland Review
“Hardest swinging band at the Newport Festival”
“Sensational”
Downbeat
“Mr. Schmitt has the springy phrasing and effusive flow of a Djangoloist; he’s clearly born to the style.”
New York Times
“Django fest is the best jazz show in town! Imagine a stage filled with six contemporary Reinhardt descendants, and you’ll get a sense that the collective talent pool on the bandstand is larger than the Arc de Triomphe!”
Wall Street Journal
“… lightning-fast finger work, powerful strumming, wild sweeps across the fingerboard and astonishingly fast tempos.”
Los Angeles Times