{"id":69731,"date":"2015-07-16T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T23:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/?p=69731"},"modified":"2019-09-29T08:35:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:35:34","slug":"samois-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/samois-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Samois Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"By Michel Mercier<\/strong>\n\n\"django_ulule.2sHez8sUbOfL.jpg\"<\/a>\n\nGood ol’ Samois\u2026 my 15th year as far as I’m concerned and still as excited as ever before taking the road to this magnificent, out of time place along the river Seine. Once you see it, you immediately understand why Django, though a long time gypsy wanderer, decided to settle here.\n\nSo here it is, the first gypsy jazz festival ever, created in 1968 and still going on. Firstly taking place every 5 years, it became yearly in 1984. It surely has changed quite a lot since the beginning and especially since the early 2000’s, but Samois remains the world’s most important Django and gypsy jazz event.\n\nNow what is it really like and what could we experience in this year’s edition? Let’s have a look at this from the most common Samois species’ point of view: the camper whose trip could start like on this video by Aki Hauru, from Helsinki’s Django Collective, showing you the way from Avon’s train station to le Petit Barbeau campsite\u2026\n\n \n\n