Story via David Menconi, Down on Copperline, Orange County Arts Commission
The Carrboro Django Reinhardt Festival is a fantastic semi-annual event that offers a solid crash course in gypsy jazz. The festival’s fifth edition is set for March 20-22, 2026, mostly at Cat’s Cradle Back Room, with a cast of great musicians from as far away as The Netherlands. It’s a homage to the late great guitar legend Reinhardt, who pioneered the style of gypsy jazz that’s still played today.
Gabriel Pelli, multi-instrumentalist in The Old Ceremony and Onyx Club Boys, is the festival’s founder, which also makes him its “CEO, creative director and gofer,” he says. Pelli is also the first to admit that his motivations for putting it on are not entirely selfless…