Gitano

Gitano were formed from a partership of Damian Pope and Graham Nicholls, originally jamming together as an acoustic duo. In around 1998 Damian was co running an acoustic club in Clevedon, a weekly performance session to help get players used to performing publicly, as well as gigging musicians road testing new material. During one of these Graham attended and played, and following this they discovered that they had a shared love of Gypsy Jazz music. Next they bought Gypsy Jazz style guitars and put together the start of a set, weaving in a few songs and jazz standards. Graham had been gigging with Charlie Rose, and from there Gitano was born.