October 10, 2024
6:30 – 8:30 pm

Step onto The Rooftop for intimate and relaxing concerts at sunset. CCAC’s stocked bar, a lineup of talented local musicans, and a venue like no other are all you need to take your Thursday evenings to the top.

Concerts are totally free to attend if you bring your own chair. If you’d like to reserve a seat on CCAC’s new rooftop furniture around the firepit tables, you can do so by pre-paying $10 which can be redeemed at CCAC bar on the evening of the concert. Click the “add to cart” button below to proceed.

This week’s artist: The Faux Frenchmen

The Faux Frenchmen

The Faux Frenchmen are acoustic guitarists Brian Lovely and George Cunningham, acoustic bassist Don Aren, and violinist Paul Patterson. They’ve played Hot Club-driven gypsy jazz in and around Cincinnati and the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. since 2002.

Guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli fronted the Quintette of the Hot Club of France in and around Paris from 1934 to 1939, and constituted the first generation of European jazz musicians. The Hot Club blended backgrounds in traditional gypsy and European popular and classical music with the then-new sounds of American jazz artists like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong , Fats Waller, and Benny Goodman to create a new musical genre, now often called “gypsy jazz.”
The Faux Frenchmen adapt the Hot Club’s instrumentation and style in forging their own re-Americanized take on gypsy jazz. Their four CD releases, Faux Frenchmen (2007), Oblivion (2008), The Swing Shift (2010), and 3am Waltz (2011) bend the relationship between American and European jazz, utilizing elements of both to create a distinctive stylistic voice.

In the event of inclement weather, the concert will move to the McKillip Theater on the third floor of CCAC’s new home (3412 Clifton Ave). If the concert must move indoors, we will share that information on this page and on our socials.