Cajun Music

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Is anyone here besides me and Blaise into Cajun Music? BTW, it is pronounced kah-jun.

The coon asses have their own version of francais. The city of Baton Rouge is pronounced "bah-tan rouge."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iHupQtJ_BM

[jemagirl (imported)]

Ah.... but how do you kah-jun?

All I know is great music now matter how its pronounced.

[Blaise (imported)]

Many kinds of music are an important part of our life in Louisiana. Cajun music embraces several influences and continues to evolve. Wikipedia has a fine article about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_music)

My Cajun wife did not speak French, but her paternal uncles and aunts did. Her mother was not Cajun. Her father did not speak French. He was the youngest child in his family. The state government suppressed French during her father’s childhood. However, after our divorce, I think that my formwe wife enjoyed Cajun waltzes and two step dances at Michael’s in the Warehouse District of New Orleans.

Canadian television produced a fine series of interviews and profiles of contemporary Cajun musicians. After living here 30 years, I find the music not quite as fresh as it once seemed to me, but the heritage is important.

Les Blank has made excellent documentary films about music in Louisiana, I don’t recall whether he did one about Cajun music, but I think that I saw one that he did about it.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Ah.... but how do you kah-jun?

All I know is great music now matter how its pronounced.

I'll have you know my kah-jun is as good as my Polish - ZILCH

[incuse (imported)]

I'm a big fan from Creole Zydeco music. You should check it out.

[Blaise (imported)]

I'm a big fan from Creole Zydeco music. You should check it out.

Les Blank did a great documentary on it. I agree with you. I love that music.

[Arab Nights (imported)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iHupQtJ_BM

Doesn't Mary Chapin just have the best voice? Her name sounds like a librarian, but her sings songs like anything but.

[jane_says (imported)]

I too like zydeco, but we don't really have anyone who plays it in this area. I have heard it live a few times at our annual Rhythm & Roots festival. Even more than zydeco, I love bluegrass. My favorite is Dr. Ralph Stanley, who lives close enough that we see him a few times a year out and about. I make a point of seeing him each year at the Russell Co. VA Fair and Horse Show and we try to make it to his Homeplace Memorial Day Weekend Show. I think he's a national treasure, and actually have a "Ralph Stanley for President" bumper sticker (on my cube wall, not my car - I don't put stickers on my car). He's getting old though, and the thought of not seeing him anymore is depressing.

[Ernie of Maine (imported)]

Yes Mary Chapin Caroenter is one of the best Cajun artesian! Love Cajun music. ______Ernie of Maine_____

[Blaise (imported)]

I too like zydeco, but we don't really have anyone who plays it in this area. I have heard it live a few times at our annual Rhythm & Roots festival. Even more than zydeco, I love bluegrass. My favorite is Dr. Ralph Stanley, who lives close enough that we see him a few times a year out and about. I make a point of seeing him each year at the Russell Co. VA Fair and Horse Show and we try to make it to his Homeplace Memorial Day Weekend Show. I think he's a national treasure, and actually have a "Ralph Stanley for President" bumper sticker (on my cube wall, not my car - I don't put stickers on my car). He's getting old though, and the thought of not seeing him anymore is depressing.

Dr. Ralph Stanley is a wonderful man. He recommended some wonderful, traditional but still somewhat high flouting hymns that I have somewhere in my CD library. He knows and loves music. He is a national treasure.

Come to think of it, my former wife, the Cajun, is a national treasure.