Cajun in the garden
Cajun music, dinner and conversation with DL Menard, Christine Balfa, Robert Jardell and others.
Duration : 0:5:42
Balfa Brothers’ song from John Sayles’ Passion Fish soundtrackCajuns – Acadiens
The Cajuns
Cajun Music
Song: Parlez-nous à boire
From the Movie: Southern Comfort
“O, parlez-nous à boire, non pas du mariage,”
“Toujours en regrettant nos jolis temps passes.”
1755
Les Anglais Déportent les Acadiens.
1755
The British deport the Acadians.
1764
Première arrivée documentée des Acadiens en Louisiane.
1764
First documented arrival of Acadians in Louisiana
1860
La Guerre Civile laisse la Louisiane en ruine. Le Général Nordiste Butler désire punir les Cajuns pour s`être alliés avec les États Confédérés en interdisant l`utilisation du français dans les activités publiques.
1860′s
Louisiana lay in ruins after the Civil War. The use of French in public activities is interdicted by Union General Butler to punish Louisiana for being allied with the Confederate States.
1921
La Constitution des États-Unis interdit l’usage de nul autre langue que l`Anglais en Louisiane.
1964
L’Acte de Droit Civil de Lousianne interdit la discrimination basée sur la race, couleur de peau, religion ou Nationalité.
1969
L’arrivée des premiers enseignants Français et Québécois.
Duration : 0:3:53
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.”
http://www.balfatoujours.com/brothers.html
Duration : 0:3:13
Balfa Camp 2006 #3 Cajun Music Jam
Taken at Balfa Camp in Chicot Park, Louisian in April 06
Duration : 0:0:40
Louisiana Musicians The Pineleaf Boys
Cajun/Creole Musicians The Pineleaf Boys Backstage…
Wilson Savoy on Vocals/accordian…
Cedric Watson Fiddle/Vocals…
Drew Simon on Drums/vocals
Blake Castille /Bass
Big Paul aka “Byrd” on Scrub board
Duration : 0:1:25
