Happy 102nd Birthday Django!
Musette is where Django got his start, playing banjo to accompany the French Waltz Accordionists. And so Django has taken so much from Musette to create his oeuvre.
Players like Baro Ferret and Jo Privat continued this expansion of the Gypsification of the swing waltz.
And Musette Project is moving ahead influenced by all of that plus plus…
In honor of all that I will be playing for the Djangoary Festival just outside of Richmond, VA on Jan. 21st.
BTW: I found this Django hand stenciled on a public mailbox in West Philadelphia over the summer.