Jun
25
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Track: Parlez Nous A Boire
Artist: The Balfa Brothers
Album: The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music: Vols. 1 & 2
Label: Swallow Records
This is a studio version of the wonderful track featured in the movie Southern Comfort. Unfortunately, as best I know, the complete movie soundtrack was never released, so if you want to hear it in all its glory you’ll have to buy the DVD. It’s a good movie and the soundtrack, produced by Ry Cooder, is excellent.
Here’s Dewey Balfa describing his 1964 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, the first time Cajun Music had featured there –
“I had played in house dances, family gatherings, maybe a dance hall where you might have seen as many as two hundred people at once. In fact, I doubt I had ever seen two hundred people at once. And in Newport, there were seventeen thousand. Seventeen thousand people who wouldn’t let us get off stage.”
http://www.balfatoujours.com/brothers.html
Duration : 0:3:13
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Jun
20
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Christine Balfa, Ray Abshire (accordian) and friends play Dewey Balfa’s music, thrilling the crowd at Festivals Acadiens Saturday Oct 11, 2008 at the Heritage Stage in Girard Park.
Duration : 0:3:17
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Jun
03
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Taken at Balfa Camp in Chicot Park, Louisian in April 06
Duration : 0:0:40
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May
21
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Christine Balfa (guitar), guest Ray Abshire (accordian) and band thrill audiences with Dewey Balfa songs and classic covers. Enjoy.
Duration : 0:5:3
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May
17
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Christine Balfa plays the triangle, (or T’fer, pronounced TEE FAIR), and On the fiddles are Courtney Granger and Kevin Wimmer, who are also in Balfa Toujours with Christine. They play this beautiful rendition of an old Acadian tune on just three instruments. Enjoy. P.S. Anyone know thew name of this tune ?
Duration : 0:2:14
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Apr
13
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Oct 24 Performance at Acadian Village near Lafayette Louisiana. Guest accordianist was Ray Abshire of Crowley.
Duration : 0:3:7
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Mar
20
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Cajun All girl band Bonsoir Catin
Christine Balfa Powell/Guitar
Kristi Guillory/Accordion/Vocals
Yvette Landry /Bass
Anya Schoenegge Burgess /Fiddle
Cajun Music
Duration : 0:0:50
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Feb
13
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Chef Pat Mould introduces this all-ladies cajun band ( ok, a male drummer sometimes sits in) was born around a campfire near Ville Platte a few years ago during a Dewey Balfa workshop weekend. They have blown away audiences ever since. Enjoy. (p.s. the lead singer of La Bande Feufollet introduced the band in French)
Duration : 0:4:36
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Jan
20
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In 1956 I was a young boy,waiting outside the Joy Theater for my parents to “pick me up”,when I heard live Cajun music for the first time. I walked across the street,past Fred’s Lounge to the French Casino,and standing at the front door I heard Cyp and Adam Landreneau playing live Cajun music. I know it was them because the local taxi driver told me so (can’t remember his name). I was hooked on Cajun music from that moment on. Fifteen years later Cyp and Adam would play a couple of tunes at my wedding. The pics illustrated in this clip are of the local musicians that I was exposed to in Mamou from during the ’50′s thru the ’80′s. Not all are actually “from” Mamou but all were around and playing music in Mamou while I was growing up there. Thinking back…it was awesome. I remember as a teenager in 1964,we were gathered at my friend’s (BD Fontenot) home during a holiday season and BD decided we needed music. He left his home and rounded up the Balfa Brothers to join us and play music for our party. We “passed the hat” at the end of the night and gave the money to them in gratitude. But they hadn’t played for the money,they played simply because they and we loved it. Mamou Louisiana would later be named the CAJUN MUSIC CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. The musicians in this clip are responsible for that honor. There are many more not included in this video. This video is a tribute to those Cajun Musicians.
Duration : 0:10:8
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Jan
11
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Some assorted clips of the Balfa Brothers, the majority being a live clip at the 1979 Lafayette Tribute to Cajun Music festival from a tape produced by Michael Doucet ( A GREAT cajun fiddler). This clip came from Clip taken from Les Blank’s film “J’Etais Au Bal”. I would recommend this video for ANY lover of cajun music.
Duration : 0:3:15
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