February 9, 2023
Biography
You can’t really sit still even though Lafayette, Louisiana-based Cajun music group the Basin Brothers, are using. Led by fiddler, guitarist, mandolinist, and vocalist Al Berard, the Basin Brothers transform the original music of Louisiana’s French Triangle right into a extremely energetic combination of two-steps and waltzes. Acquiring their name …
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February 7, 2023
Biography
Lawrence Walker, the reigning ruler of accordion players through the 1950s, continues to be considered among the all-time great Cajun performers. Created near Duson, Louisiana, Walker was the boy of the prominent fiddler, who later on moved the family members to Orange, Tx. Lawrence and sibling Elton, a fiddler, shaped …
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January 23, 2023
Biography
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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January 21, 2023
Biography
The accordionist of the entire year based on the Cajun French Music Association in 1999, Jackie Caillier has led his band the Cajun Cousins towards the upper echelon of Cajun music. As well as Ivy Dugas, Man Vocalist of the entire year in 1997, 1998, and 1999; metal guitarist Danny …
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January 20, 2023
Biography
Another generation product from the southwestern Louisiana region’s most famed music dynasty, nouveau zydeco accordionist Chris Ardoin followed within the customs established by his dad, French Zydeco Music group frontman Lawrence “Dark” Ardoin; his grandfather, Cajun “la la” story Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin; and his faraway cousin, Creole virtuoso Amadé …
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January 20, 2023
Biography
The new variety of Cajun music artists had forget about promising a representative in the close from the 20th century than Kristi Guillory, who was raised in the center from the Acadian nation and was fiddling using the buttons and keys with an accordion at an age when a great …
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January 18, 2023
Biography
Cajun fiddler Chuck Guillory was created August 16, 1919 in Mamou, Louisiana; as a kid, he frequently performed alongside his dad, playing fiddle duets at an area bar each Sunday afternoon. After showing up at his initial nation dance at age group eight, 2 yrs later Guillory produced his first …
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January 17, 2023
Biography
La Contacté is really a five piece music group that has traditional design cajun music alongside first progressive cajun music having a nation and country-rock taste. Wilson Touchet, the music group innovator and accordian participant was raised within the cajun parish of St. Martin, LA, on the farm producing mainly …
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January 13, 2023
Biography
Chris Jagger, sibling from the infamous Mick, gracefully amounts being the tiny brother of 1 of rock’s luminaries along with his own music dreams. While he might never turn into a home name, his musical result through the ’90s being a single artist and along with his zydeco-rock group Atcha …
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January 11, 2023
Biography
Boozoo Chavis (given birth to Wilson Anthony Chavis) was among the pioneers of zydeco, the Cajun and blues cross types while it began with southwest Louisiana. Although his self-composed 1954 one, “Paper in my own Shoes and boots,” was the initial zydeco strike, Chavis was distrustful from the music sector …
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