STEPHANE WREMBEL BAND TO PERFORM ON OUTDOOR STAGE AT NELSON ODEON ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 AND SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2020
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – August 20, 2020–Award-winning guitarist STEPHANE WREMBEL and his band, which includes Thor Jensen on guitar, Ari Folman-Cohen on bass and Nick Anderson on drums, will perform on the outdoor stage at Nelson Odeon, 4035 Nelson Rd., Nelson, N.Y. 13035, on Saturday, September 5th at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, September 6th at 3:00 p.m. Doors will open one hour prior to performance. The Covid-19 protocol is posted on the venue’s website. There will be no food and beverage service at these shows. Patrons will be allowed to bring in a small cooler. Tickets are $28 per show or $50 for a 2 day pass. For more information and to purchase tickets call 315-655-9193 or visit https://nelsonodeon.com/
Born in France and now based in New Jersey, Stephane Wrembel is one of the preeminent guitarists specialized in the style of legendary musician and composer, Django Reinhardt, the creator of “Gypsy Jazz.” Wrembel is most known for his Grammy Award®-winning composition “Bistro Fada” from the Academy Award®-winning Woody Allen movie “Midnight In Paris.” Aquarian Weekly said, “Stephane Wrembel just might be the greatest acoustic guitarist alive.”
Since 2001, Wrembel has released over a dozen critically acclaimed albums including a series of five recordings in tribute to Reinhardt under the nom de plume, The Django Experiment. The Django Experiment V was released in January 2020 and as with the previous “experiments,” it was recorded with Wrembel and his world-class band, plus special guests Nick Driscoll (saxophone, clarinet) and Daisy Castro (violin), performing live, with no headphones or tracking, in a setting conducive to improvisation with each musician pushing their own boundaries to evoke new interpretations of Reinhardt’s music as well as songs by other composers.
In October of 2019, Wrembel released Django L’Impressionniste putting the spotlight on 17 little-known solo pieces Reinhardt recorded between 1937 and 1950. Wrembel is the first and only interpreter who has performed all of these solo pieces and collected them in one definitive masterwork; he is currently working on the transcriptions of these pieces with the plans to release them in a book later this year.
The shows in Nelson mark the first time the band has performed together since February of 2020. The show on Saturday night will feature compositions from The Django Experiment I, II and III while Sunday’s show will pull from The Django Experiment IV and V. Both shows will include some of Wrembel’s original compositions including “Bistro Fada.”
These shows will happen rain or shine except in the event of extreme and dangerous weather. Tickets are non-refundable. If the shows have to rescheduled, the new dates will immediately be posted on the venue’s website.
For more information:
stephanewrembel.com
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