Cajun Life Blog » fiddle

Jesse Legé at Festivals Acadiens in Lafayette, LA

admin — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:51:00 +0000

Jesse Legé at Festivals Acadiens in Lafayette, LA 2010 playing the Gueydan Waltz. Jesse on Accordion, Joel Savoy on Fiddle, Richard “Big Money” Burgess on Guitar, Ray Thibideaux on Drums, and Evelyn Schneider on Bass.

Duration : 0:3:25

Lost Bayou Ramblers

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:09:45 +0000

Lost Bayou Ramblers performing at the Louisiana Cajun Zydeco Festival in New Orleans, June 12th 2010

Duration : 0:5:10

Cajun – Nous Autres Cajun Band Live – Cajun Dance

admin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:37:19 +0000

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

Cajun Musicians The Savoy Family Band

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:56:03 +0000

Cajun Musicians The Savoy Family Band…Cajun music performed by a family from Savoy, Louisiana… near Eunice. From Left to right is brothers Wilson Savoy Joel Savoy, Dad Mark Savoy & mom Ann Savoy.

Duration : 0:3:5

Cajun Music Nederland Texas – Golden Triangle Chapter

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:30:23 +0000

Filmed Aug. 06, 2010 Dance

Duration : 0:7:9

Festivals Acadiens et Créoles 2010

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:56:13 +0000

October 9, 2010
Lafayette, Louisiana

Duration : 0:3:30

33rd Alaska Folk Festival Documentary

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:04:56 +0000

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

Cajun Fiddle

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:23:12 +0000

“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

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

Duration : 0:3:13

Feufollet

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:34:23 +0000

Feufollet playing at the Bluemoon, February 23, 2008

Duration : 0:4:30