Who says a museum needs to be quiet? Shake it up with Atlanta’s perfect mix of culture and cocktails! Enjoy cool cocktails, stunning films, live music or a DJ, and creative cuisine beneath the world’s largest dinosaurs, Fridays (January through November) from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

The Bonaventure Quartet was originally just Dave and Charles who were nuts about Django. But we needed some low end, so we dragged Mark Bynum over on Sunday afternoons and became an all-acoustic trio based in Atlanta whose initial inspiration came from the great French gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt.

At least, that’s how it started…

Since Amy Pike was a close friend and just happened to be the best singer we’d ever met, we begged her to start singing with us, and once she did, we didn’t want her to stop… So then we were a quartet. But we were still greedy for another melody instrument, so we went looking and found Don Erdman on clarinet and we became a quintet.

Inevitably, however, we had to meet a swing violinist. So naturally, when Marla Feeney stepped into the room, we grabbed her, too, and now we have the Sextet!!!!!! But then we recorded the Secret Seduction of the Grand Pompadour. Charles and Mark had worked with the amazing Joel Morris previously in a wacky funk group called the Sargasso Cs, and when some songs called for drums, we said “Yo-Joel!!” And he fit in like a glove. So now we had a Septet…. While recording the above CD, our wonderful friend and engineer, Ken Gregory played some trumpet and trombone, and he was so tasteful, we said, “bring it on, Ken!” Which brings us to the Fabulous Bonaventure Double Quartet…..

The repertoire of the group is diverse. Our performances of classic standards, western swing, gypsy jazz and original compositions all fall under the spell of the Reinhardt influence.  Moviegoers might be familiar with this style featured in the Woody Allen* film “Sweet and Lowdown,” or “Chocolat.”

When:               Friday, September 3, 2010 – 6:30pm to 11:00PM

Where:              Fernbank Museum of Natural History

                           767 Clifton Road

                           Atlanta, GA

Tickets:            $12 General / $11 Seniors & Students / $7 Members      

For more information, visit http://www.fernbankmuseum.org/ orhttp://web.me.com/williebaez/ECDRUMS/About_Me.html.

 

Trivia Question:

What is the name of the IMAX Movie currently showing exclusively during Martinis & IMAX?

Entry Deadline:  Thursday, September 2, 2010