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The president from the Arhoolie Records label, folklorist and producer Chris Strachwitz, was being among the most prominent and influential champions of global roots music; primarily focusing mainly on American customs like the blues, Cajun, Tejano, zydeco, nation, and jazz, he afterwards branched away to explore music from across the …
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The classical guitar continues to be transformed into a significant voice of southwest Louisiana’s Cajun music by David Doucet. Younger sibling of Cajun fiddler Michael Doucet, Doucet offers used his special cross of folk-style fingerpicking and bluegrass-like flatpicking to fortify the shows of Beausoleil, the music group he’s distributed to …
Read More »Marc Savoy
Marc Savoy brands himself a “crusader” for Cajun lifestyle and, therefore, is ranked near the top of the revivalists who followed the Balfa Brothers’ example and championed natural Cajun music. Savoy’s commitment towards the music contains building Cajun accordions at his workship in Eunice, LA, in addition to playing the …
Read More »Ann Savoy
Ann Savoy (given birth to: Ann Allen) knew hardly any about Cajun music when she met Cajun accordion participant and constructor Marc Savoy on the Country wide Folk Celebration in Washington, D.C., in 1975. Under Savoy’s guidance, she discovered the intricacies of Cajun electric guitar playing and performing. Performing jointly …
Read More »Martin Meissonnier
Paris-based record producer Martin Meissonnier is among the main producers of worldbeat and cultural recordings. A pioneer and spokesman for the house studio motion, Meissonnier offers overseen albums by such performers as Ruler Sunny Ade, Ray Lema, Fela Kuti, Cheb Khaled, Amina, and Haruomi Hosono. Inside a middle-’90s interview, Meissonnier …
Read More »Cleveland Chenier
The scraping and scrubbing rhythms of Cleveland Chenier’s frottoir (rub-board) were an important ingredient from the performances and recordings of his youthful sibling, Clifton, “The Ruler Of Zydeco”, for a lot more than 4 decades. The kid of the sharecropper and amateur accordion participant, Joe Chenier” along with a electric …
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