Tag Archives: Zydeco

Vocalist and accordionist Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin was an essential connect to the musique Creole customs of the bygone period — his music kept alive the Cajun “la la” music which developed in the African-American areas of his local southwestern Louisiana, and that was a definite antecedent from the modern …

When fiddler Joseph “Bebe” Carriere passed on from a coronary attack in 2001, it had been considered the finish of the musical period. Bebe and his sibling Eraste Carriere had been masters from the old-time design known as “la la” music, so that as the Carriere Brothers had been a …

Named for the Louisiana swamp fish, the Bluerunners are essentially a Cajun rock and roll & move group; except if they play traditional Cajun music, or the blues, or funk. They appear to defy any try to pigeonhole their music. They are likened to Los Lobos, except the vocabulary they …

Accordionist and vocalist, Sheryl Cormier (b. Sheryl Guidreau) is among the first ladies to break with the sexist limitations of Louisiana’s Cajun music. A previous leader of the all-woman Cajun music group, Cormier happens to be the first choice of Cajun Seems, a group that has Isaac Miller, Jr. (metal …

Allen Fontenot is among the best-known fiddlers in Cajun music. Fontenot usually adored the fiddle and produced his personal on several events from such materials like a ukulele, cigar containers, bow and arrow units, and cable. At age group 15, his grandfather, also a fiddler, bought him his first proper …

Just like Donna Angelle’s career like a zydeco musician was removing with nightly gigs that held her hopping between her real estate condition of Louisiana and Alabama, New Mexico, Tx, and again, she suffered an extended amount of downtime because of a significant auto crash. The multi-instrumentalist, who was simply …

Lil’ Music group O’ Platinum resurrected swamp pop custom while putting its stamp around the rock and roll music appearing out of Southwest Louisiana. The nine-piece supergroup, comprising vocalist/guitarist C.C. Adcock, vocalist/accordionist Steve Riley, vocalist/pianist David Egan, saxists Dickie Landry, David Greely, and Pat Breaux, bassist Dave Ronson, pedal-steel guitarist …

One bridge between traditional Zydeco music and newer influences continues to be supplied by accordionist and vocalist, Willis Prudhomme. The first choice of his personal music group, because the early ’70s, Prudhomme received his best publicity when he and his music group were invited to execute within the 1993 film, …

The son of Creole accordion legend Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin, Lawrence “Dark” Ardoin not merely continued the family’s musical traditions, but he later on offered the torch to his own son Chris, perhaps one of the most acclaimed proponents from the nouvelle zydeco sound. Blessed in Duralde, Louisiana in 1946, …

The only real full-time music group in California to focus on Cajun music, the California Cajun Orchestra prove that the two-steps and waltzes of Cajun music are no more limited by southwest Louisiana. An outgrowth from the Blue Fire Stringband, the California Cajun Orchestra transform the original sounds from the …