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SUMMARY:Jazz Room Presents: Valentine’s Edition with Don Vappie
LOCATION:Stage Door Theater
DESCRIPTION:Legendary\, award-winning New Orleans Creole banjoist and vocal
 ist Don Vappie brings his ensemble Jazz Creole to the JAZZ ROOM for a spec
 ial Valentine's weekend celebration. Inspired by the legacy of Danny Barke
 r and the rich traditions of Caribbean Creole culture\, Vappie delivers an
  enchanting program rooted in classic New Orleans style. Expect a soulful 
 evening of rhythm\, romance\, and timeless Creole jazz.\n\nDon Vappie\, mu
 sician / composer / educator\, is the 2021 Steve Martin Banjo Prize Winner
  and was inducted into the Banjo Hall of Fame in September 2022. In additi
 on\, he has received awards for his contributions to the preservation of N
 ew 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\, an
 d at concerts and festivals around the world. Vappie's highly regarded uni
 que and original tenor banjo style is equal only to his love of his Creole
  heritage and tradition.\n\nVappie was born into an extended family of mus
 icians\, some of whom are quite prominent. He began piano lessons at 6 yea
 rs of age and played trumpet in school bands starting in fifth grade. By h
 igh school his desire was to play bass. It was 1 year later when the band 
 they'd formed lost the guitar player that Don started guitar. "I'd watched
  those guys play and remembered some of the shapes. So\, I sat down at the
  piano and figured out the notes in the chords and then looked at how I co
 uld play those notes within the reach of the fingers of my left hand on th
 e fret board of the guitar." That's how Vappie explained it to the great D
 r\, John during a recording session for Disney's remake of their classic m
 ovie\, Jungle Book.\n\nAfter 2 years of college as a music major studying 
 bass\, Don left to become a full-time musician.\n\nBy the end of the 1970s
  he had lost interest in participating in a democratically formed top 40 b
 and and quit playing music for three months only to start back by waking u
 p every morning and playing along with a Kenny Burrell record. It was duri
 ng this break that he was introduced to the banjo\, a sound that reminded 
 him of the muted guitar lines he'd played in the Soul/Funk style bands. Th
 is was the beginning of a period of working with some of the most well-kno
 wn jazz musicians in New Orleans including trumpeter Teddy Riley\, drummer
  Bob French\, bassist Lloyd Lambert\, trumpeter Wallace Davenport\, banjo/
 guitarist Danny Barker\, saxophonist Clarence Ford\, drummer/ bassist Plac
 ide Adams and his brothers\, guitarist Justin Adams and bassist Gerald Ada
 ms. There are more names to mention but the important point is that these 
 New Orleans musicians\, who lives exemplified the Creole cultural traditio
 ns\, became the important mentors for Vappie.\n\nBoletos: https://www.blum
 enthalarts.org/events/detail/jazz-room-presents-valentines-edition-with-do
 n-vappie
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