The Road to Django

Ravanhatta
Indian traditional

Delhi Twostep
Cam Neufeld

Naomi Campbell Comes to Town
Cam Neufeld

Shour Thing
Cam Neufeld

Tarlibashi Lullaby/Kasap Havasi
Cam Neufeld/Turkish traditional

Ederlesi/Amari Tzi Amari
Roma traditional

Cold Like That/Romani Romp
Billie Zizi/Cam Neufeld

Djelem Djelem/Minor Swing
Roma trad/Django Reinhardt

Intermission

J'attendrai
Dino Oliveri

Swing 39/Swing 42/Swing 48
Django Reinhardt

Blue Drag
Joe Myrow

Djangology
Django Reinhardt

Si Tu Savais
Georges Ulmer

Makedon
Macedonian traditional

Puerta del Sol
Cam Neufeld

Veish a No Drom
Ninine Garcia

Reeling in Rila
Cam Neufeld

Hora de Clejan
Tod Taraful

A long time fixture in the Edmonton music scene, Cam Neufeld has played his own style of fiddle music in clubs and festivals across the prairies and around the world. Cam has journeyed many times over the last 20 years tracing the route of the Roma from India through Türkiye, the Balkans, France and Spain, and studying and composing music inspired by this journey. Cam has two solo albums and recently the Gadjo Collective has put out a CD called Balkan Jam .

Clarinetist Don Ross plays some 150 shows a year, split between classical, jazz, world and experimental music. He plays regularly with such groups as Saint Crispin's Chamber Ensemble, the Gadjo Collective, the Alberta Symphony, The Billie Zizi Swing Band and many others. He teaches clarinet at the University of Alberta, MacEwan University, The King's University and MusiCamp Alberta. He studied at the Universities of Alberta and Toronto and at Northwestern in Chicago.

Billie Zizi deftly combines the groove of classic soul with a flair for contemporary R&B melody. Her first record, 2015's Gun Metal Dress , a more jazz-influenced LP, featured unconventional time signature shifts, more straightforward guitar work, and some classic, scat-inspired vocal work. Her second full-length album, 2016's Moon Of Honey , showed a growing artist comfortable with taking sonic risks while maintaining a shrewd pop sensibility in composition.

Keith Rempel discovered his life passion for music following his first year at the University of Alberta. His talents and skill developed as he studied in the Grant MacEwan music program, where he focused on mastering the acoustic stand-up bass. The first blind graduate of the Grant MacEwan program, Rempel's instinct for pitch is extraordinary and his good ear and sense of his surroundings helps him blend seamlessly with his other performers.

Daniel Akira Stadnicki holds a Ph.D. in Music from the University of Alberta. With the support of a Vanier Scholarship, Daniel's dissertation research explores musical narratives and representations of Iranian Baha'i persecution, focusing on the global aesthetics of 'Persianness' in the Baha'i Faith. Daniel currently works as a drumming instructor at the Sarah McLachlan School of Music and has published on drumming topics in the Journal of Popular Music Education and The Drummer's Journal .

Lisi Sommer holds a BMus in vocal performance from the U of A. She began singing jazz and Mexican music, playing guitar and writing folk songs, gracing many of Edmonton's open stages. Her own world music trio, Gitana Mundo, has toured festivals in Alberta and British Columbia with Spanish repertoire. Lisi helps host a monthly hot club gypsy jazz jam and is head of production at Edmonton's Yardbird Suite.

Roya Yazdanmehr is a singer-songwriter for whom musicianship is a powerful gateway for the expression of personal truths and reflections on spirituality and love. The power of Roya's music emanates from the enduring sincerity and tenderness of her lyricism, which testifies to her spirited, sometimes genre-defying sense of creative possibility. She is currently working on her debut album, Breath & Being , set to release in 2020.