Career
George Cole was lead guitarist in the pop rock band Beatnik Beatch from 1984-1988. With Beatnik Beatch, he performed with Warren Zevon and Buster Poindexter. Beatnik Beatch has a music video featuring George Cole on VH1. They won a BAMMY - Bay Area Music Award for Best New Major Label Artist. George Cole was a member of the band Big Blue Hearts from 1997-2000. He toured with Joe Walsh of The Eagles, recorded with producer Roy Thomas Baker, and they performed with Robert Cray, Ringo Starr, and Boz Scaggs. George Cole started the Jazz band George Cole and Vive Le Jazz in 2006 and is the Producer, Composer, Lyricist, Vocalist, and lead guitarist. The band was a five piece acoustic jazz band. George performed a sold out performance at Carnegie Hall in New York as part of a world flute festival concert to benefit In Defense of Animals www.idausa.org. The band performed at a San Francisco Chapter of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’s (Grammy's) celebration. In 2010-2011 George Cole released his most recent recording Riverside Drive and toured extensively in the United States with a quintet. George Cole is the co-founder, curator, and director of guitar and violin for the Annual Esprit de Django et Stephane Festival that takes place at the end of January each year at the Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley California. This festival is differentiated from other Django Reinhardt festivals in that it honors the legacy of the great jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli and his collaboration with Django. George Cole's current band (as of 2013) is the Gypsy jazz and uptown swing group Eurocana. Members of Eurocana include: George Cole lead guitar/lead vocals, Stephan Dudash violin/vocals, Mathias Minquet guitar/vocals, Kaeli Earle bass/lead vocals.
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