Aug
30
30
Lost Bayou Ramblers
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Lost Bayou Ramblers performing at the Louisiana Cajun Zydeco Festival in New Orleans, June 12th 2010
Duration : 0:5:10
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Aug
26
26
33rd Alaska Folk Festival Documentary
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http://akfolkfest.org/
Director: David Nickerson
A New Media class traveled to Juneau, AK to capture the annual Alaskan Folk Festival. This is the beginning of what David has developed.
The Alaska Folk Festival is a unique event and can be compared more to a folk life festival than to the Folk Festivals that many of us have experienced. For the most part, no one gets paid. All concerts and events are free, but everyone is encouraged to become a member. Performers on the main stage have 15 minute sets. Dance sets in the dance hall Thursday – Saturday nights are one hour in length. Performers come from all over Alaska and also from other Northwest States as well as from just about everywhere else. Performances range from school groups to professionals. Many come from hundreds or thousands of miles away, every year. The Festival is a non profit organization funded mostly from memberships. Admittance to the festival itself is free.
We do bring up one guest artist and dance caller every year. For guest performers we look for people with roots in a musical tradition.
Duration : 0:15:30
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Jul
21
21
Cajun Fiddle
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“Cajun Fiddle,” as played by Miss Emily. Visit me at www.banjophil.com and learn how to get Emily’s CD.
Duration : 0:1:35
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Jul
12
12
Cajun – Nous Autres Cajun Band Live – Cajun Dance
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Here is a clip From the “Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler from Randol’s” show featuring Nous Autres cajun band. Randols is an authentic cajun resturant/dance hall located in Lafayette, Louisiana. They feature live Cajun Music almost every night of the week. I would recommend a trip there.
Check them out at http://www.randols.com
I do not know much about the Nous Autres band. If anyone does, please let me know and I’ll post it.
Enjoy, thanks
Duration : 0:3:15
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Jun
25
25
The Balfa Brothers – Parlez Nous A Boire
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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
15
15
Feufollet
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Feufollet playing at the Bluemoon, February 23, 2008
Duration : 0:4:30
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May
26
26
Cajun Music – Doc Marshalls
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The Doc Marshalls live at the IMAC Theater in Huntington, Long Island (Jan 07)
Duration : 0:8:11
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May
07
07
Old Time Cajun Music: One Step de McGee’s
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Bob Godfried and Bob Cohen play a Dennis McGee tune at John Allen’s Solstice party, Dec. 21, 2007, Beacon, NY.
Duration : 0:2:3
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Mar
26
26
Feufollet at Colorado College
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Although Feufollet has often been hailed as the future of Cajun music, a more current assessment must admit that they are now the present of Cajun music. Once idolized at at early age for their precocious musicianship and sent all over the world as youthful emblems of Acadianas cultural resurgence, the members of Feufollet have, in the meantime, grown into the music as young adults. While Feufollet remains central to the neotraditionalist brush fire they helped ignite as youths, their latest album finds the band coming into its own and pushing the envelope, leading the way once again as Cajun Music extends itself into a new century.
Formed in 1995 when accordionist/singer Chris Stafford was 8 and fiddler Chris Segura was 11, Feufollet quickly developed a following in Acadiana, not merely for their youthful energy but also for their surprising musical maturity and instrumental expertise in the traditional music of the Cajun Culture.
Feufollet continues to be known for excellent musicianship, beautiful vocals, and innovation based on a solid grasp of the tradition, making them one of the most exciting Cajun bands in Southwest Louisiana.
Over the course of the 10 plus years that they has been performing and recording, they have built upon their regional popularity, delighting audiences of all ages at folk festivals and performance venues throughout the United States and French Canada.
Feufollet can also be booked as part of Eye for Talent’s celebration of Cajun/Zydeco music, Fête de Louisiane!, along with Grammy-nominated Creole musician, Cedric Watson and his band Bijou Creole.
Duration : 0:4:27
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Feb
16
16
Cajun Music : Eddie LeJeune DL Menard & Ken Smith
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Duralde Waltz: Cajun clip from the Shetland Sessions. Not the whole tune, as found on the CD though.(Retitled to give Ken Smith recognition, as I had previously neglected to do this.)
Duration : 0:2:22
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