at the Django Reinhardt Festival in France

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Alexander Michael at the Django Reinhardt Festival in France Some seventy years after the death of guitar legend Django Reinhardt, Key West musician Alexander Michael attended a festival celebrating Reinhardt’s life and his famous jazz manouche style of music (aka gypsy jazz, gypsy swing). The music began with the Manouche clan of Romanis gypsy population […]

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heard the violin from the first moment he was born

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Martin Sedlak    “…heard the violin from the first moment he was born” In 1987, Martin Sedlak was born in Benesov, Czechoslovakia, (now Czech Republic), a small town about 25 miles south of Prague. He has two sisters and is the middle child. He remembers vividly the sound of his grandfather, Antonin Sedlak, playing the violin […]

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