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Don Vappie
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Don Vappie, musician/composer/educator, is the 2021 Steve Martin Banjo Prize Winner and the Banjo Hall of Fame inductee, in September 2022. In addition, he has received awards for his contributions to the preservation of New Orleans Creole Culture through music and film. He has produced 7 of his own albums, co-produced and starred in a PBS documentary, performed as a featured artist with orchestras on movie and television soundtracks, and at concerts and festivals worldwide. Vappie's highly regarded unique and original tenor banjo style is equal only to his love of his Creole heritage and tradition.
The Dreamers And The Believers
Album: Louisiana Stories
By Don Paul
Label: I/R Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 9:59
Louisiana Stories
By Don Paul
Label: I/R Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Louisiana Days, Louisiana Nights (instrumental);
The Bands are Bringing Everyone Home (instrumental);
Something You Got (instrumental);
My Mother’s Spirit Speaks to Me Whispering of Eternity (instrumental);
The Dreamers and the Believers (instrumental);
Some Rain Tonight (instrumental);
Colors Changing Color (instrumental);
Get Your JAM On! (instrumental);
Louisiana Days, Louisiana Nights;
The Bands are Bringing Everyone Home;
Marsha’s;
Jack Groves;
Something You Got;
My Mother’s Spirit Speaks to Me Whispering of Eternity;
The Dreamers and the Believers;
Some Rain Tonight;
Colors Changing Color;
Get Your JAM On!;
Our Trains Keep A-Comin”;
Ev’ry Child is Born to be the Light of Dawn.
What It Means
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Comes Love; Sweet Pea; Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?;
The Beat Goes On; In The House; Cornet Chop Suey; Beautiful Boy (Darling
Boy); Days Like This; Petit Fleur; Elbow Bump; Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel
/A Child is Born).
Jazz In Marciac 2022
by Martin McFie
Le Chapiteau, L'Astrada, Jgo Jazz in Marciac Marciac, Southern France July 22 to August 6, 2022 The 43rd annual Jazz in Marciac festival welcomed a quarter million concert visitors to the 13th century French village of Marciac (population 1,247). Jazz in Marciac comes late and runs long in the European ...
Jazz Alley: Jazz Finds A Way In Ashland, Kentucky
by Sean Conroy
Jazz returns this summer to the Paramount Arts Center--Ashland, Kentucky's ninety-year-old Art Deco shrine to early American film. It is perhaps poetic that the PAC, designed to showcase the silent films of Paramount Studios, now hosts not only musicals, plays, and rock concerts, but also-- every summer--live jazz, crossing genres and planting its flag ...
2021: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The jazz world continued grappling and adjusting in year two of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Jazz Day again went virtual for the most part. Singer Tony Bennett put the final stamp on his touring--and likely recording--career after his Alzheimer's disclosure. Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield was headed to federal prison. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four ...
Jazz Empowers Hosts Virtual Mardi Gras Jazz Festival
Jazz Empowers, a national nonprofit organization that supports jazz programs in underserved schools, is celebrating Mardi Gras with a Virtual Mardi Gras Jazz Festival. The jazz festival will include an exclusive performance from Jazz Empowers instructor Ricky Sebastian and his Carnival Time Band featuring Derek Douget on Tenor Saxophone, Ashlin Parker on trumpet, Don Vappie on ...
Cinque
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2018
Track listing: Part A: El Rey del Congo – The King of the Congo; Narration 1; Cinque + Narration 2 (Part 1); The Capture (Part II); Canto Ganga de Despedida; Narration 3; Troubled Waters (Part III); Rezo Congo; Maluagda (part I); La Burla De Los Congos (Part II); Tambor Yuka – Saludo Ganga; Madre Agua (Part III); Indigo + Narration 4 (Part I); New Sky (Part II); Narration 5; The First Colony (Part II); 17 Kongo.
Part B: The Night At Bwa Kay Man; Palo De Muerto – Llore; Kafou Ceremony; Narration 6; The Night Of Fire; Medley of Congo Songs; Mesy Bondye; Paseo (Part 1); Conga Y Comparsa (Part 1); Live Conga; Canto Ganga a Yegbe de Despedida; Congo Story; Canto Congo A Capella – Maluagda; Palo de Muerto.
Elio Villafranca: Five Islands & A Revolt
by John Ephland
The setting was Systems Two, a well-known, state-of-the-art recording studio in Brooklyn. The sessions, occurring over five days in May (7-11) 2017, were set up to record Cuban pianist/composer Elio Villafranca's sixth album, the elaborate and thoroughly rehearsed double-CD Cinque (artistShare), the music previously performed in shows at Lincoln Center in 2015. Present at ...
