Posts Tagged ‘balfa’

Cajun accordion – Bee Fontenot – pain de maïs (cornflour)

Bee Fontenot plays accordion – interviewed by Dewey Balfa – extracted from the documentary “Dedans le sud de la Louisiane” – 1974

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Passion Fish

Balfa Brothers’ song from John Sayles’ Passion Fish soundtrack

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Cajun in the garden

Cajun music, dinner and conversation with DL Menard, Christine Balfa, Robert Jardell and others.

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Cajun Musicians Courtney Granger & Balfa Toujours

Cajun Musicians Balfa Toujour Courtney Granger has a huge voice that will carry cajun music to the next generation.
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The Balfa Brothers – Parlez Nous A Boire

Track: Parlez Nous A Boire
Artist: The Balfa Brothers
Album: The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music: Vols. 1 & 2
Label: Swallow Records

This is a studio version of the wonderful track featured in the movie Southern Comfort. Unfortunately, as best I know, the complete movie soundtrack was never released, so if you want to hear it in all its glory you’ll have to buy the DVD. It’s a good movie and the soundtrack, produced by Ry Cooder, is excellent.

Here’s Dewey Balfa describing his 1964 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, the first time Cajun music had featured there –

“I had played in house dances, family gatherings, maybe a dance hall where you might have seen as many as two hundred people at once. In fact, I doubt I had ever seen two hundred people at once. And in Newport, there were seventeen thousand. Seventeen thousand people who wouldn’t let us get off stage.”

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Nathan Abshire – Pine Grove Blues Still video

Nathan Abshire’s Pine Grove Blues. Often called the best cajun accordion player ever. This is my first youtube effort.

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Balfa Camp 2006 #3 Cajun Music Jam

Taken at Balfa Camp in Chicot Park, Louisian in April 06

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Cajun accordion ,Mon Vieux Wagon

Cajun jam in Breda. Will,fiddle. Wil,accordion. Ed,guitar Kees,`tit fer.

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Cajun – Robert Jardell & Dewey Balfa – Lacassine Special

Clip is taken from Yasha Aginsky’s documentary “Cajun Visits”. It is an AWESOME film I would HIGHLY recommend. Here, Dewey Balfa visits cajun accordionist Robert Jardell. They talk of music and play a true cajun favorite “Lacassine Special”

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Cajun accordion – Nathan Abshire – Hey negresse

Nathan abshire and the Balfa brothers playing hey negresse + Dewey Balfa interview – extracted from the documentary “Dedans le sud de la Louisiane” – 1974

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