We are all finally back from Djangofest! After 4 days of roaming around Langley and joining people for jams I felt like it was almost going to keep on going forever and I probably would have liked it that way if it did.
I had a ton of fun, and luckily the weather turned out to be suprisingly comfortable until late Sunday afternoon when it got a bit windy.

I managed to record all of the setlists to the shows at Djangofest. Here they are, and I might expand on these details later when I get some time. Of course, I may have made a few mistakes in the lists, and in some cases I couldn’t figure out the title of the tune that they played. Email me with corrections, if you don’t agree with something.
Savitrio (Thursday)
1. Brise Napolitaine
2. Tchavolo Swing
3. For Sephora
4. Djangos Tiger
5. HoneyPie (The Beatles)
6. Bossa Dorado
7. Delit Mineur (Patrick Saussois)
8. Minor Swing
9. Made for Isaac (Rosenberg tune that sounds like Nature Boy)
10. Plastered in Paris
11. For Dudley
12. Dark Eyes
Hot Club Sandwich (Thursday)
1. Stompin at KAOS (Greg Ruby)
2. Brazil
3. Estoy Enamorado
4. Russian Lullaby
5. I mean you?
6. Valse Valse (Greg Ruby)
7. Unknown
8. Limehouse Blues
9. Tico Tico
10. Unknown
11. Ferdinand
12. Ochi Choernie (Dark Eyes)
13. Gypsy Farewell (Greg Ruby)
14. Unknown
Pretty Boy Freud (Thursday)
1. After You’ve Gone
2. Danika
3. Blue Skies
4. My Blue Heaven
5. Autumn Leaves (in French)
6. Avalon
7. Honeysuckle Rose
8. Don’t worry about me
9. Undecided
10. I’ll see you in my dreams
11. Dark eyes
12. Minor Swing
Swingamajig (Friday)
1. Douce Ambience
2. Crazy Rhythm
3. Desert Sands (Stuff Smith)
4. Dinah
5. Do nothing til I hear from you (Ellington)
6. Swing 39
7. Hillcrest (Stuff Smith)
8. Lady Be Good
Hot Club of San Francisco (Friday)
1. Dark Eyes
2. Man I love (Gershwin)
3. Armondos Rhumba (Chick Corea)
4. Flambee Montalbanaise
5. Nuages
6. The mooch (Ellington)
7. Til Tom Special (Benny Goodman/Charlie Christian)
8. Body and Soul
9. Some of these days
10. Limelight (Jerry Mulligan)
11. Kreve Coure (“Heartbreak”)
Robin Nolan Trio (Friday)
1. Latcho Drom
2. Unknown (fast tango)
3. Wildgrass Blues
4. Sakura Sakura (cherry blossom song from Japan)
5. Ill see you in my dreams
6. Bossa Dorado
7. Tea for two
8. Unknown (flamenco style?)
9. Hungaria
10. Icelandic Folk Song
11. Meditteranian Blues
12. Number 1
13. Summertime
Hot Club of San Diego (Saturday)
1. All of me
2. La foulle
3. The search is over
4. I found a new baby
5. Manoir des mes reves
6. I cant give you anything but love
7. troubelant Bolero
Pearl Django (Saturday)
1. Minor Swing
2. Avalon
3. Under paris skies
4. Honeysuckle Rose
5. Manoir des mes reves
6. Plumb Crumble
7. Seaside adventure
8. J’attendrai
9. Sweet georgia brown
10. Walc nagrobek (Tombstone waltz)
11. Unknown
12. Saskia? (a Pearl Django original)
13. Peche a la mouche
Robin Nolan (Saturday)
1. Latcho Drom
2. Djangos Castle
3. Wild Rice Blues
4. Tears
5. Meditteranean Blues
6. Ill see you in my dreams
7. Sakura Sakura (cherry blossom song from Japan)
8. Icelandic Folk Song
9. Honeysuckle Rose
10. It dont mean a thing
11. Friar Park
12. Dark Eyes
Hot CLub of San Diego (Sunday)
1. song written by guitar player who died on flight 800
2. Solenza (a Corsican tune)
3. La foulle
4. Tears
5. Take the a train
6. Enchantee
7. Negro Swing (Romane)
8. Flambee Montalmaise
9. Yes, im in love
10. Unknown
11. Sweet Sue
Hot Club of Mars (Sunday)
1. Memories of Grappelli (Lackey)
2. Diminushing
3. Gypsy Moon
4. Belleville
5. Fatah de Mutabia (Lackey)
6. Night on the black sea (Lackey)
7. Romanian Rhapsody
8. Tears
Pearl Django (Sunday)
1. C’est ce bon (Life is good)
2. A cole porter tune
3. St Germain des pres
4. Unknown
5. Under paris skies
6. I found a new baby
7. Minor Blues
8. Avalon
9. Seaside adventure?
10. Swing 39
11. Minor Swing

After seeing Lache Cercel play the violin in a performance on Sunday night at Djangofest, after an entire weekend of American influenced gypsy jazz, I realized how far away everyone is from the original Sinti and Romanian sounds that form some of the roots of this music. I think Bluegrass music has a strong influence on this form of music in the U.S. I wish more violin players in the American gypsy scene had eastern european flavor. If I was a violin player, I would rush out and buy the following video immediately.
HOW TO PLAY ROMANIAN VIOLIN, VOL. 2 by Miamon Miller and Lache Cercel. Twelve pieces expand the repertoire of the first volume. Techniques and stylistic nuances with regional variations of accordion, guitar and violin accompaniment.
*Book and cassette. BF/ROMANIAN 2 $19.95