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Satchmo meets Django in French New Orleans

We're making a record of Dixieland music meets Gypsy music creating Gypsyland music. All lyrics will be in French! All music will be New Orleans style!

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Satchmo meets Django in French New Orleans

Satchmo meets Django in French New Orleans

Satchmo meets Django in French New Orleans

Satchmo meets Django in French New Orleans

Satchmo meets Django in French New Orleans

We're making a record of Dixieland music meets Gypsy music creating Gypsyland music. All lyrics will be in French! All music will be New Orleans style!

We're making a record of Dixieland music meets Gypsy music creating Gypsyland music. All lyrics will be in French! All music will be New Orleans style!

We're making a record of Dixieland music meets Gypsy music creating Gypsyland music. All lyrics will be in French! All music will be New Orleans style!

We're making a record of Dixieland music meets Gypsy music creating Gypsyland music. All lyrics will be in French! All music will be New Orleans style!

Jonathan Roniger
Jonathan Roniger
Jonathan Roniger
Jonathan Roniger
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New Orleans, United States
$3,135 USD 33 backers
39% of $8,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Bonjour Mesdames et Messieurs!

My name is Jon Roniger. I am a New Orleans native. I have been playing music since the 5th grade when I joined the church choir (on a whim really). I've been addicted to music ever since. I play over 150 shows a year. I have toured the US and Europe many times. I have released twelve independent records over the last 20 years and I’ve written hundreds of songs for pop, folk and country artists.

I am working on a project called GYPSYLAND where I am collaborating with a French native living in New Orleans named Thomas Chaze. We first met when he was teaching French and I was one of his students. We are writing songs in French (continental French, not Cajun) and combining them with the music of New Orleans.

I have a real passion for the musical styles of New Orleans based jazz and Dixieland music. In recent years I have found that I also really love the Gypsy musical style of Django Reinhardt. I’ve also been studying French. This project came about through my passion for all these things! We have named it GYPSYLAND to capsulate the combining of the gypsy music of Reinhardt and the Dixieland jazz music of New Orleans.

Thomas is an educator, a writer, and a sailor, who likes to not be limited to one specific field. A traveler, but not a tourist, he was born in south eastern France, but raised in Bordeaux. In New Orleans, he began to explore new ways to creating through songwriting. Our world, says Thomas, desperately needs poetry. But poetry, he adds, is too often disconnected from the language people use on a daily basis, and frequently becomes out of reach for many of us. Songwriting creates poetic forms in a contemporary way that everyone can immediately relate to. He and Jonathan are inspired by what makes everyday life extraordinary.

The two of us have found it fun and incredibly exciting to create these pieces. We want to share them with a community that loves all things French and all things New Orleans.

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