Balfa Toujours (2) @ Festivals Acadiens 2008
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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(1) Balfa Toujours @ Festivals Acadiens 2008
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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Cajun in the garden
Cajun music, dinner and conversation with DL Menard, Christine Balfa, Robert Jardell and others.
Duration : 0:5:42
The Balfa Brothers – Parlez Nous A Boire
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
Categories: Cajun Music Tags: balfa, cajun, fiddle
3. Balfa Toujours [two-step] @ Festivals Acadiens 2008 (3)
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
Categories: Cajun Festivals Tags: Abshire, acadiens, balfa, cajun, Cajun Culture, Cajun Festivals, Cajun Life, Cajun Life Blog, Cajun Music, chaillot, christine, festivals, joe, Louisiana Culture, louisiana festivals, music, paris, ray, toujours, zydeco
Balfa Camp 2006 #3 Cajun Music Jam
Taken at Balfa Camp in Chicot Park, Louisian in April 06
Duration : 0:0:40
1. Balfa Toujours @ Blackpot 2008 Festival
Oct 24 Performance at Acadian Village near Lafayette Louisiana. Guest accordianist was Ray Abshire of Crowley.
Duration : 0:3:7
Categories: Cajun Festivals Tags: Abshire, acadiana, balfa, blackpot, cajun, chaillot, christine, dancing, Festival, joe, kevin, lafayette, Louisiana, music, paris, ray, toujours, wimmer, zydeco
Cajun Music Bonsoir Catin
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
Bonsoir Catin [two step] @ Festivals Acadiens 2008
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
Balfa Brothers’ song from John Sayles’ Passion Fish soundtrack