Midwinter Midwest Gypsy Swing Festival

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Nick Berard

The trio Harmonious Wail.

Harmonious Wail (from left): Sims Delaney-Pothoff, Pete Olig, Maggie Delaney-Pothoff.

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 Debi Botos Trio

10:20 Closing Djam 10:20

Welcoming from New York, French Gypsy Jazz Guitarist Stephane Wrembel, is 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 Debi Botos from Budapest, Hungary with her Trio. From an early age Debi Botos has cultivated an interest in the Gypsy music of Hungary, where she was born into a family of musicians. Now 28, she continues that exploration in combination with a serious study of the tradition we know as jazz manouche. She excels not only as a interpreter, but as a composer and champion of Hungarian traditional Gypsy Jazz.

Hailing from Madison, 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 me started on what Maggie can do with a cardboard box! With special guests Scott Hlavenka, Gian Compuesto and Dallas Vietty.