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Onyx Club Boys are a finalist in the NC Folk Festival's 2023 Not Your Average Folk Contest.
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About Onyx Club Boys:
Onyx Club Boys is an acoustic string band (violin, guitar, upright bass) rooted in Django Reinhardt’s Gypsy Jazz sounds of 1930's Paris, and Stuff Smith's New York City Swing. However, being from 21st Century North Carolina, their diverse influences take the music beyond borders. It's a trip around the world, which will make you swoon, tap your feet, and realize how universally similar music really is.
Appearances have included Shakori Hills Festival, Festival for the Eno, Haw River Ballroom, Cat's Cradle, Raleigh First Night, Artsplosure, NC Museum of Art, WUNC’s Back Porch Music at American Tobacco Campus Durham, Carrboro Django Reinhardt Festival, Carolina Theatre of Durham, and National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
100% genuine! No backing tracks necessary! Curiously exotic, yet pleasantly familiar!
"The cool dexterity of their playing binds together the broad catalog"
Grayson Currin, music editor Indy Week, NC
How does community, tradition, and identity play a role in the music you create?
"Gypsy Jazz* is the folk music of the W. European Sinti tribe of the Gypsy people. It’s a relatively recent folk music that originated with Django Reinhardt in the 30’s, and was adopted by the Gypsy community and beyond, starting in the 70’s.
We all grew up in NC, surrounded by our own rich Jazz tradition, which is our core identity as musicians. We also love to promote our adopted Gypsy Jazz tradition, as we’ve done for the past 15 years. We founded the Carrboro Django Reinhardt Festival which features top bands, as well as community-building jams and workshops, and we play out regularly.
“Dark Eyes” is a staple in the Gypsy Jazz repertoire, and is in the public domain.
https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Public_Domain_Song_Anthology_(Berger,_David)
* The term Gypsy Jazz is used in the Gypsy community and beyond. (aka Jazz Manouche = France, Sinti Jazz = Holland). Eastern European Gypsies tend to prefer the term Roma, and do not traditionally play Gypsy Jazz." |