Come hear Dan Pugach, Nicole Zuraitis and Jon Regen LIVE on the Django stage for a night of swing and song!

Dan Pugach is a 3x GRAMMY® Award nominated drummer and composer, a three-time recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Jazz Composer Award, a winner of the BMI Charlie Parker Composition Prize/Manny Albam Commission as part of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, and a Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency Program participant at the Kennedy Center (where he worked with Curtis Fuller, Nathan Davis and George Cables). His album "Bianca Reimagined: Music for Paws and Persistence" is nominated for a 2025 GRAMMY Award for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Album, and "Little Fears," a song from the album (featuring Nicole Zuraitis) is nominated for a 2025 GRAMMY for Best Jazz Performance. Dan was the featured drummer on the 2024 GRAMMY® Award winning album “How Love Begins,” co-produced by Nicole Zuraitis and Christian McBride.

Nicole Zuraitis is a GRAMMY® winning and 4X GRAMMY-nominated jazz singer-songwriter, pianist and arranger, New York-based band- leader and winner of the prestigious 2021 American Traditions Vocal Competition Gold Medal. With a “heart as big as her remarkable voice,” (Jazz Police), Nicole is a trailblazing artist who is redefining vocal jazz, earning her a place as one of the top artists and "prolific songwriters" (Broadway World) to watch in jazz and beyond.

Singer, songwriter and pianistJon Regen began his career as a sideman to jazz artists like Kyle Eastwood and Little Jimmy Scott. A protégé of the legendary pianist Kenny Barron, Regen released a series of acclaimed jazz recordings before making a left turn into singer/songwriter territory. Nearly overnight, Regen was heralded as an important new songsmith and performer, with praise from both listeners and critics alike. Regen’s latest album, Satisfied Mind, released in 2023 to critical acclaim, is a genre-blurring tour de force that marries a myriad of musical styles alongside a cast of legends like Ron Carter, Rob Thomas and Pino Palladino, and many others. Famed UK musician and presenter Jamie Cullum premiered the title track on his BBC Radio 2 show, Jazz FM made it their Album of the Week and The Telegraph awarded it Four Stars, writing “you are witnessing virtuosos at the height of their powers."