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Don Vappie’s Creole Jazz Serenaders, a Sextet, incorporate the musical legacy of the New Orleans Creole culture, a society that sprang from the mixture of French, Spanish, African and American Indian people with strong ties to the Caribbean Islands. Offbeat Magazine chose the Creole Jazz Serendaers’ debut CD, Creole Blues, as one of Louisiana’s 100 Essential CDs of the 20th century. Recent appearances include Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Sheldon Concert Hall (MO), Whitaker Center (PA), the Playboy Jazz Festival, and the Bix Beiderbecke Festival (IA).
His family’s musical heritage was recently explored in American Creole: New Orleans Reunion, a PBS documentary. As a result, he was honored with a Louisiana Creole Society Award for his promotion of the Creole culture of New Orleans in music and film. With his wife, Milly, Don co-founded “Bring it on Home”, an organized effort to help New Orleans musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina find work and return to their hometown.
Jazz Series 2011 is sponsored by the Western North Carolina Jazz Society. Concerts are open to the public.
