Gypsy Heart performing Saturday at CocoWalk

CocoWalk will be set on Gypsy fire when highly-acclaimed Gypsy Heart featuring Gyorgy Lakatos (left)  deliver a high energy performance on Saturday, May 19, from 7 to 11 pm in the Courtyard.

The Hungarian-born guitar virtuoso Gyorgy Lakatos is hailed as one of the fastest guitar players in the world. He is joined by two guitarists from Jose Feliciano’s band now touring with Gypsy Heart. Their charismatic music is a cultural blend of Gypsy, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Rhumba, Spanish, and Pop. This show will be powerful and passionate, smooth and sophisticated. Gyorgy has performed, written, and recorded with Jose Feliciano, Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons. Having traveled throughout the world, he now resides in Florida and is making a name for himself in the United States.

Gyorgy is the fifth generation in a long line of world-renown musicians, and he carries on this musical tradition, whether touring with a 3-piece band or a full orchestra.  Gyorgy is an accomplished player of the Cimbalom, a century’s old, large stringed dulcimer-type instrument popularized in Hungary that takes skill and years of study, and Gyorgy makes it look easy.  He is currently recording his debut album on the iconic Cimbalom.  His latest CD, Guitar Bomb, features a song written by the late Clarence “Big Man” Clemons from the E-Street Band; previous CDs include Gypsy Fire and Romance.
Gypsy Heart will be touring Europe this summer and will perform at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht center in December and the Kravis Center in Palm Beach in February.  CocoWalk and Bice Bistro invite you join the trance of Gypsy Heart and relish this evening of music and romance, rhythm and fire!

For more information, call 305.444.0777 ext. 214, or visit the Gypsy Heart event page on Facebook.

-- M. Peggy Quattro