Midwinter Midwest Gypsy Swing Festival

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Nick Berard

Harmonious Wail members Maggie Delaney-Potthoff and Sims Delaney-Potthoff.

Harmonious Wail members Maggie Delaney-Potthoff and Sims Delaney-Potthoff.

media release: The 2025 Midwinter Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest is a celebration of the music of Django Reinhardt. This annual event is hosted by Harmonious Wail. The 2025 MGSF is honored to celebrate it’s 21tst year.

$40, General Admission

Line-up

7:30 Harmonious Wail Festival Band with Scott Hlavenka

8:30 Stephane Wrembel — Django l’impressionniste

9:30 Alfonso Ponticelli Gypsy Jazz Odyssey (Debi Botos Trio's visa was denied)

10:20 Closing Djam 10:20

The 2025 Midwinter Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest is a celebration of the music of Django Reinhardt.  This annual event is hosted by Harmonious Wail. The 2025 MGSF is honored to celebrate its 21st year.  

Hailing from Madison, Wisconsin, Harmonious Wail are purveyors of Americana-infused Gypsy Jazz. This is what experience looks like. What honing your music for decades together looks like. This is skill perfectly balanced with artful joy, brought to new heights upon a foundation of brilliant writing. And don't get us started on what Maggie can do with a cardboard box! With special guests Scott Hlavenka, Gian Compuesto, Forrest Evans and Dallas Vietty. The Harmonious Wail Super Band!

Welcoming from New York, French Gypsy Jazz Guitarist Stephane Wrembel, quite simply one of the finest guitar players in the world. This prolific musician, composer, educator, and musical director has released a steady stream of music since 2002 truly making his mark as one of the most original guitar voices in contemporary music.  In October of 2019, Stephane released Django L’Impressionniste putting the spotlight on 17 little-known solo pieces Reinhardt recorded between 1937 and 1950. Stephane is the first interpreter who has performed all of these solo pieces and collected them in one definitive masterwork.

The MGSF is excited to host the return of Alfonso Ponticelli Gypsy Jazz Odyssey Quartet featuring Alfonso, Olya Prohorova on violin and vocals from Moldova, Andres Lopez on percussion from Ecuador and Marcel Bonfim on bass from Brazil.