Heather Moran and Gabriel Datcu New Venue!

Heather Moran and Gabriel Datcu
New Venue!

 

 

We are excited to announce a new venue for Heather and Gabriel!  They can be seen a few times a month at Jolane's Cafe & Wine Bar in Glenview.  Please stop in for some top notch food and music.

Upcoming Gigs

12/04/08, Jolane's 12/11/08, Jolane's 12/12/08, Jolane's 12/19/08, Jolane's

Gabriel Datcu

Gabriel Datcu started studying music since he was four years old, playing the accordion, classical piano and guitar. He studied under great jazzists in his home country of Romania as a teen and eventually played out in the Budapest jazz scene with the likes of Marius Pop, Sorin Romanescu and Tudy Zaharescu. He attended the Music Conservatory in Budapest and later toured Europe with Pachea's Jazz Big Band. In 2000, he came to the US and received full scholarships to DePaul and NIU, where he studied under Bob Palmieri and Fareed Haque. Frank Rumoro, Peter Ballin and David Bloom are other mentors of note. Gabriel has also had the privilege of studying under John Scofield and Pat Metheny, two of his biggest influences. He is currently working on a great deal of jazz improvisations and recording projects involving classical music.

Heather Moran

Heather Moran has performed in many of Chicago's top settings: nightclubs, weddings. private and corporate functions, and some notable venues such as Drury Lane Water Tower, The plush Room in San Francisco, The Odyssey, Katerina's. Grant Park, Andy's Jazz Club, The Park West, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Acorn Theater in Three Oaks, Michigan, Martyr's and Davenport's Piano Bar.  She was recently featured as a lead act at Bistrot Margot in Chicago and can be seen periodically as a headliner at Katerina's.  She also performs for numerous events for the city of Chicago,  Please look out for a few of her 2009 bookings at some venues, including Katerina's and Wilson Center for the Arts in Wisconsin.  Heather also can be found performing with the critically acclaimed musical trio 3GIRLS3 at a venue near you...

About Jolane's Cafe & Wine Bar

"Apparently, even though Abt Electronics CEO Bob Abt has a wildly successful and ridiculously large showroom in Glenview, he always wanted to open a restaurant. So in February 2008, they added a full-service restaurant to their already expansive campus, which includes Sony and Apple mini-stores, a massive fountain and some really, really massive home theater displays. A 100-seat spot with an 80-seat patio for the warmer months, Jolane's is actually not located in the store's main building, but rather inside a newer design center just south. For years, Abt has proffered free chocolate-chip cookies and Julius Meinl coffee to shoppers, so an on-site coffee shop wasn't too far of a departure. "But we like to do everything," says Mike Abt, Bob's son and president of the company. So the cafe concept snowballed into a menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner, with fairly hefty selection of wine. Now, the cozy cafe mostly feeds hungry shoppers mulling over a big purchase and provides a quieter spots for kitchen and bathroom design consultants to chat with their customers away from the flurry of the salesfloor. But as word gets out, the Abts hope regulars will return for unique offerings like Nutella-filled crepes, champagne-spiked juice cocktails, pear and brie sandwiches and prosciutto paninis. And the name Jolane? It's actually the full name of Bob's mother, who founded the store with husband David Abt in 1936." Chicago Metromix

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