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The Cajuns of southwest Louisiana are recognized for their country laughter but, using the collaborative efforts of humorists Murray Conque, Dave Petitjean, and AJ Smith, collectively referred to as the Cajun Kings of Comedy, the limits have already been pushed even more. Their debut record, Cajun Laughter Fest, premiered in …

Cajun rebel Zachary Richard continues to be supplying his zesty, exclusive fusion of traditional cajun, zydeco, rock and roll, and New Orleans blues because the early ’70s. Though not really well-known beyond Louisiana, Canada, and France, Richard, along with Michael Doucet yet others, is a essential shape in the revitalization …

Danny Poullard still left Louisiana behind when he moved to California as a man, but he hardly ever turned his back again over the Cajun music of his youth. When the accordion participant resolved in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay region through the ’60s, he became the generating push …

A modern Cajun group whose recordings expertly mix traditional French tunes with originals merging pop and rock and roll elements.

The music of Happy Fats remains instrumental in both from the preservation and celebration of his indigenous Cajun culture, regardless of the harm inflicted by some race-baiting protest records cut in the peak from the civil legal rights movement. Created Leroy LeBlanc in Rayne, LA, on January 30, 1915, Body …

Florida local Gina Forsyth had not been given birth to Cajun, though she may appear to be it. Like Ann Savoy, Forsyth followed the Cajun lifestyle and continues to be much loved in exchange. After learning violin at Loyola School in New Orleans, Forsyth transferred to Southwest Louisiana in 1987 …

Canray Fontenot was dubbed while the “last of the fantastic Creole and Cajun fiddlers” by Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Information Along with his primitive design of taking part in the fiddle, accented from the rhythmic stomping of his uncovered ft, Fontenot was among the last players from the pre-zydeco Creole …

Going for a break from using Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, five Louisiana-based music artists joined together to create the tradition-rooted Cajun strap the Cajun Playboys. Led by drummer Kevin Dugas, a veteran of Belton Richard’s music group and Walter Mouton & the Scott Playboys, the group resurrected such …

Along with his gutsy mixture of rockabilly and Cajun music, Tommy McLain helped to place the building blocks of Louisiana’s swamp pop tradition. The author of a lot more than 150, McLain is most beneficial referred to as the author of Freddy Fender’s strike, “UNLESS YOU Love Me Only (Keep …

Aldus Roger was perhaps one of the most influential Cajun performers through the period when the music genre was small known beyond the France Triangle in southwest Louisiana. The first choice and frontman from the Lafayette Playboys Rogers reached his largest viewers, in the 1950s and ’60s, as web host …