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A seminal amount in the revival of traditional Cajun music, fiddler Dewey Balfa was among his indigenous culture’s most impassioned ambassadors, helping introduce the Cajun audio to countless brand-new fans throughout the world and inspiring a whole generation of performers to explore their root base. Blessed March 20, 1927 in …

The Balfa Brothers (Les Freres Balfas) helped keep traditional Cajun music alive in the 1960s, when it had been at risk of disappearing. The sons, three of a family group of six, had been born to an unhealthy southwest Louisiana sharecropper, from whom they learned all about traditional Cajun lore …