Don Vappie
Banjo/guitar

• New Orleans native descended from a long line of New Orleans musicians that goes back to the nineteenth century.
• Has been a featured performer in the Preservation Hall Band
• Leads and tours with the Creole Jazz Serenaders
• Co-founded “Bring it on Home”, an organized effort to help displaced New Orleans musicians find work and return to their hometown.
• His family’s musical heritage was explored in American Creole: New Orleans Reunion, a PBS documentary, and honored with a LA Creole Society Award for his promotion of the Creole culture of New Orleans in music and film.
• Offbeat Magazine chose his debut CD, Creole Blues, as one of Louisiana’s 100 Essential CDs of the 20th century.
• Has appeared with the Creole Jazz Serenaders  at Carnegie Hall, the Sheldon Concert Hall, the Whitaker Center and the Bix Beiderbecke Festival.
• Been recently nominated to the Four String Banjo Hall of Fame,
• Plays mandolin, guitar, string bass and is a vocalist.
• Don has appeared as a regular guest with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz At Lincoln Center
  
  

Visit Don's website at
www.donvappie.com