Award-winning violin legend Tim\u00a0Kliphuis\u00a0(Holland) teams up with America\u2019s rising star on Django jazz guitar Jimmy Grant (Los Angeles) to celebrate the music of famed musical duo Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Recreating the 1930s in Paris and drawing inspiration from current classical and folk music,\u00a0Kliphuis\u00a0and Grant\u00a0alternate moments of dazzling interplay with melancholy and sheer exhilaration in an inspired conversational journey.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSuperb\u00a0. . .\u00a0a provocative meeting of minds.\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>Sunday Times<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tim\u00a0Kliphuis\u00a0<\/span><\/b>is a master of the violin and a wizard of sound. Using classical, jazz,\u00a0and folk,\u00a0he has created a unique style that is making waves in concert halls across the globe. His recent successes have led to a Sony Classical recording contract and a performance for the Dutch\u00a0king and\u00a0queen.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Kliphuis\u00a0has shared the stage with legends Frankie Gavin, Richard Galliano,\u00a0and Les Paul. Additionally, he\u00a0has been lauded for his musical genius by Nigel Kennedy. He was awarded the Scottish Jazz Award (International), has collaborated with the Richard Strauss Festival, Netherlands and Tallinn Chamber Orchestras,\u00a0and\u00a0the Cape Town Philharmonic.\u00a0He\u00a0curates the Fiddles on Fire Festival in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Kliphuis\u00a0is a\u00a0Pirastro\u00a0and DPA artist.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Jimmy Grant<\/span><\/b>\u00a0grew up with bluegrass, folk,\u00a0Celtic,\u00a0and classical. He later\u00a0gravitated toward the music of Django Reinhardt, studying with acclaimed jazz guitarists Jim Nichols and Howard Alden. He cites Bach, Joe Pass,\u00a0and Benny Goodman as his main influences.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Grant\u00a0has performed with David Grisman and European musicians Ludovic Beier (accordion) and Paulus Schafer (guitarist), as well as the Hot Club of San Francisco. He\u00a0has performed from coast to coast with Velvet Caravan, a\u00a0Savannah-based internationally touring group,\u00a0and\u00a0he\u00a0currently heads his own\u00a0quartet.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Grant uses\u00a0Favino\u00a0guitars.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Award-winning violin legend Tim\u00a0Kliphuis\u00a0teams up with America\u2019s rising star on Django jazz guitar Jimmy Grant to celebrate the music of famed musical duo Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":11422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[44],"tribe_events_cat":[27],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11417"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}