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Paris Dreaming are Ewan Mackenzie and Kay Sullivan - they
play acoustic guitar and accordion in French Gypsy Swing style,
evoking the atmosphere of the Paris café scene of the 20th
Century. Their music ranges from Musette waltzes to Gypsy tunes,
from American swing standards to their own self-penned compositions.
An evening with Ewan and Kay is a journey through some of the most
romantic and delightful music ever written, played by virtuoso musicians
with passionate intensity and dash of humour.
Ewan MacKenzie has been playing guitar for many years in
all styles, and since devoting himself to the genre sometime ago
has come to be regarded as one of Australia's premier Gypsy Jazz
guitarists in the Django Reinhardt style. He also leads well-known
Jazz Manouche group Mystery
Pacific and is Artistic Director of the OzManouche
Festival. His playing is fluid and passionate. He writes melodic,
evocative material in the style and his soloing is warm and articulate
while still retaining that spontaneity and creativity that is inherent
in jazz improvisation..
Kay Sullivan thinks she may have been a gypsy accordionist
in a previous incarnation, and after years playing at Bush Dances
and country socials on the Darling Downs in Queensland where she
has lived all her life, she has thrown herself into playing Gypsy
Jazz accordion with fire and passion.
They met in September 2006 at a folk gathering at Mulgowie in Queensland
and to date have released two CDs , their first CD in April 2007
titled Paris Dreaming and their
second Cascades in January 2008. Both
are collections of Musette waltzes, Gypsy Swing, Django Reinhardt
tunes and Ewan's originals.
Concerts and Festivals:
Mini-Manouche 2007 Brisbane
Bastille Day Qld Performing Arts Centre 2007
Bellingen Jazz Festival 2007 - 2008
OzManouche 2007 - 2008
Woodford Folk Festival 2007 - 2008
Illawarra Folk Festival 2008
National Folk Festival 2008
Village Festival Yepoon 2008
Surfing the Coldstream Yamba 2008
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