Gypsy and Balkan music traditions thrive in multinational collective

As Cam Neufeld tells the story, it started simply enough over his passion for the music of the legendary Gypsy jazz guitar master Django Reinhardt (1910-1953). Reinhardt, along with his friend Stephane Grappelli, co-founded the Quintet of the Hot Club Of France in Paris in 1934, one of the first bands to ever feature guitar as a lead, improvising instrument.
Neufeld had been playing “hot club” music of some sort for years in his own groups and others, reading about Reinhardt’s