Pat Philips announces the much-anticipated return of the Django Reinhardt NY Festival, taking place from November 14th to 19th at the legendary Birdland Jazz Club. This year marks the 24th anniversary of the festival, celebrating the enduring legacy of gypsy jazz icon Django Reinhardt.
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There’s nothing like The Django Festival Allstars to bring pure JOY to an audience, and it’s exactly what we need now having been through a difficult year and a half. Their music reaches right into your heart and brings ‘smiles’ a mile long, as the music is ‘happy’, infectious, and full of love. “HOT GYPSY JAZZ” and The Django Reinhardt NY Festival is the place to be.
“The best show in town”. .Will Friedwald, The Wall Street Journal
Hero British mine clearance worker murdered in Cambodia honoured with giant bomb-sniffing rat
Updated: 0:38, 13 Jul 2021
A HERO British mine clearance worker murdered in Cambodia has been honoured with a giant bomb-sniffing rat.
Army veteran Christopher Howes was just 36 when he was killed by Khmer Rouge fanatics as he risked his life to clear landmines in 1996.
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Hero British mine clearance worker Christopher Howes
Now a giant African pouched rat which grow as large as a cat has been named Howes.
The rats are trained to sniff out explosives.
Chris’s sister, Pat Philips, said it was a fitting tribute to a brave and exceptional man.