🎷 Gypsy Jazz & Good Vibes — Ponticelli Live at the Green Mill! 🌹🎸
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🎷 Gypsy Jazz & Good Vibes — Ponticelli Live at the Green Mill! 🌹🎸
GYPSY JAZZ AT THE GREEN MILL — ALFONSO PONTICELLI & SWING GITAN!
April is International Jazz Month — and Chicago is the host city this year for International Jazz Day on April 30!
🌍🎺 Let's celebrate in style at one of Chicago's most legendary venues with one of its most electrifying jazz bands!
Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan is Chicago's premier Gypsy jazz band — a vibrant, passionate blend of American jazz, Gypsy jazz, Flamenco, and world folk music threaded together through virtuosic improvisation. Bandleader Ponticelli invites Chicago's top talent for musical conversation and always-lively spontaneous co-arranging. An absolutely unforgettable night of live music! 🎸🎷
🔗 https://www.gypsyjazz.us/band-1
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📍 LOGISTICS
📅 Wednesday, April 29, 2026
⏰ Meet at 7:00 PM | Band plays 8:00 PM–12:00 AM | We'll stay for 1st set until 10:00 PM
📍 Green Mill Jazz Club — 4802 N Broadway Ave, Chicago
💰 $10 CASH COVER — PAY AT THE DOOR
💳 CASH ONLY — no credit cards accepted!
🏧 ATM inside the bar + several nearby banks
🍽️ No food served — outside food welcome! Several great restaurants nearby.
🎻 ABOUT ALFONSO PONTICELLI Played by the Romany tribes of Southeast Europe, the Flamencos of Spain, and eventually the jazzmen of France and America, Gypsy music is the original "world music" — and Alfonso Ponticelli is Chicago's most prominent representative of this extraordinary tradition. 🌍
Ponticelli learned his craft the authentic way — visiting and studying in Gypsy camps in France and the mountains and caves of Spain, even traveling and performing out of his own Vardo (Gypsy wagon)! 🐎 He has held a weeknight Gypsy jazz residency at the Green Mill for nearly 20 years, taught Gypsy jazz guitar at the Old Town School of Folk Music, and has hosted the annual Chicagoland Gypsy Jazz Festival since 2003. A true Chicago original! 🎸
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🏛️ ABOUT THE GREEN MILL
The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge has been an Uptown institution since 1907 — originally named Pop Morse's Roadhouse and later renamed a nod to the famous Moulin Rouge of Paris.
🌹 During Prohibition, Jack McGurn of Al Capone's Chicago Outfit became a part-owner, and Al Capone's favorite booth is still there today, directly west of the short end of the bar. After Prohibition, the Green Mill became one of Chicago's most celebrated jazz destinations and has never looked back. A true Chicago treasure! 🎷
💵 CASH ONLY AT THE GREEN MILL — NO CREDIT CARDS!
- The Green Mill does not accept credit cards
- ATM available inside the bar
- Several banks nearby as well
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🚇 GETTING THERE
🚇 CTA Trip Planner: https://www.transitchicago.com/planatrip/
🚗 Metered parking on Broadway or Lawrence + limited free street parking
⚠️ Watch for no parking & permit-only signs — parking can be tricky!
🅿️ Use SpotHero or ParkingWhiz for the best & safest options
📱 Lost or can't find the group? Call/text 312.835.4259
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⚠️ NO-SHOW POLICY
- 😬 3 no-shows without updating your RSVP = 3-month event ban
- ⏰ Update your RSVP before the event start time; after that, message the host directly
- 👋 Check in with the host upon arrival
- 🚫 Continual no-shows = removal from the group