Musette

Genre-hopping favorites Café Accordion Orchestra return for another night of French-inspired musical fun. Midnight in Paris is a follow up to last year’s successful show, French Music and Music of the French Diaspora. CAO will conjure up the dark and exotic feel of late night in the City of Lights with French Musette, Gypsy and American swing, and French-tinged music from around the world.

CAO will bring two guests to the stage at this year's concert.

Captivating chanteuse DIANE JARVI is a singer-songwriter known for her poetic and jazzy approach to world folk music. She has appeared on two of Cafe Accordion Orchestra's recordings, and will sing French, Occitane, Cabo Verdean Creole and American French classics. Read more »

Legendary underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and guitarist Dominique Cravic founded Les Primitifs du Futur in 1986, craving real Parisian musette instead of the poor imitations they heard in variety shows. The members of Les Primitifs du Futur brilliantly blend world-musette and Django-style guitar into old-fashioned originals, sounding like they've stepped right out the '30s. Musette, a style that developed in France at the turn of the century before exploding in Paris in the 1930s and '40s, mixes popular folk dancing from Auvergne with swing, gypsy inflections, and polka. Read more »