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Balfa Toujours (2) @ Festivals Acadiens 2008

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:01:07 +0000

Christine Balfa (guitar), guest Ray Abshire (accordian) and band thrill audiences with Dewey Balfa songs and classic covers. Enjoy.

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(1) Balfa Toujours @ Festivals Acadiens 2008

admin — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:13:12 +0000

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 ?

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Passion Fish

admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:11:34 +0000

Balfa Brothers’ song from John Sayles’ Passion Fish soundtrack

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Cajun in the garden

admin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 05:51:27 +0000

Cajun music, dinner and conversation with DL Menard, Christine Balfa, Robert Jardell and others.

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The Balfa Brothers – Parlez Nous A Boire

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:58:19 +0000

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

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3. Balfa Toujours [two-step] @ Festivals Acadiens 2008 (3)

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:53:34 +0000

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.

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Balfa Camp 2006 #3 Cajun Music Jam

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:44:50 +0000

Taken at Balfa Camp in Chicot Park, Louisian in April 06

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1. Balfa Toujours @ Blackpot 2008 Festival

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:47:05 +0000

Oct 24 Performance at Acadian Village near Lafayette Louisiana. Guest accordianist was Ray Abshire of Crowley.

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Cajun Music Bonsoir Catin

admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:51:06 +0000

Cajun All girl band Bonsoir Catin
Christine Balfa Powell/Guitar
Kristi Guillory/Accordion/Vocals
Yvette Landry /Bass
Anya Schoenegge Burgess /Fiddle
Cajun Music

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Bonsoir Catin [two step] @ Festivals Acadiens 2008

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:06:13 +0000

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)

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