OzManouche Festival of Hot Gypsy Jazz

Overview

If you like your jazz drum-free and heavy on the guitar and violin — aka in the style called hot gypsy — then prepare to spend four days in music heaven. The annual OzManouche Festival of Hot Gypsy Jazz is back for another run, and it's taking over the Brisbane Jazz Club.

Actually, OzManouche isn't rolling out just another yearly event — it's celebrating its tenth birthday. With concerts, workshops, masterclasses, film screenings and food on the bill, including Hank Marvin Gypsy Jazz, The Cope Street Parade and Salon de Swing serving up their best jazzy tunes, it seems that they have the perfect program for the occasion.

OzManouche belongs to a bustling tradition of similar festivals around the world, including the famed Samois Festival du Django Reinhardt in France. That's why performers flock from all over Australia to take part, and why Brisbanites should rush to enjoy the experience in their own backyard.