Alfonso Ponticelli's Flamenco & Gypsy Jazz Showcase November 9, 2012

Alfonso Ponticelli hosts this showcase on the second Friday of the month. Alfonso, having traveled several times to the annual Django Reinhardt festival in France, introduced gypsy-jazz to Chicago in the 1990s. A multi-instrumentalist, he won the 1994 U.S. National Mountain Dulcimer Championship and plays both banjo and guitar with the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra. He's also a gypsy flamenco guitarist, having been to Cordoba, Spain, to study with the great flamenco guitarist Vicente Amigo. At the Iridium in New York, the late, great Les Paul invited Alfonso to play as a special guest with his trio.