One of the world’s best known and most admired Gypsy Jazz acts of the last 20 years, the Robin Nolan Trio features top Dutch double bassist Arnoud Van Den Berg and UK guitar virtuoso Chris Quinn alongside Robin.

Legendary in the Django Reinhardt world, Robin has played with every major Gypsy Jazz artist and headlined every major Gypsy Jazz festival across the globe.

The son of musical entertainers, Robin Nolan’s story began in an evacuation hospital in Vietnam. At the age of six, his father started to teach him to play the guitar and his nomadic lifestyle took him on a romantic and passionate musical journey.

Nolan was encouraged and taught to play the standards of Hank Williams and the subtleties of traditional jazz. However, like many journeymen before him, Nolan’s musical path led him down many roads before securing a place at the Guildhall School of Music in London where he established himself on the capital’s local jazz scene with his own swing quartet. But it was a trip to the annual Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-Sur-Seine, France that changed Nolan’s whole perspective towards music forever.

The Robin Nolan Trio will be at The Courtyard on Thursday, May 18 at 8pm. To book, call the box office on 01432 340555 or visit courtyard.org.uk