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Cajun music (French: Musique cadienne), an emblematic music of Louisiana played by the Cajuns, is rooted in the ballads of the French-speaking Acadians of Canada. Although they are two separate genres, Cajun music is often mentioned in tandem with the Creole -based zydeco music.
Traditional French Cajun folkmusic from the US. Mixed songs and tunes.Accordion, fiddle, guitar, percussion, bass, vocals.The north-American Acadian Cajun cu...
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- mwired2
Cajun music played by Berard-Huval Family Affair with accordion, guitar, bass guitar, and mandolin.
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- MacNichol Guitars
Watch a concert of lively and soulful Cajun music by the BeauSoleil Quartet, the first Cajun band to win a Grammy Award. Learn about the band's history, style and influences from the speaker biography and transcript.
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- Library of Congress
Learn how Cajun music evolved from the French ballads of the Acadians to a blend of accordion, fiddle, and country influences. Discover the key musicians, recordings, and events that shaped the genre from the 1920s to the present.
Learn about the origins, evolution and current state of Cajun music, one of America's most distinctive indigenous genres. Explore the influences, styles and performers of this French-rooted musical tradition of southwestern Louisiana and east Texas.
Cajun music is an accordion- and fiddle-based, largely francophone folk music originating in southwestern Louisiana. Most people identify Cajun music with Louisiana’s Acadian settlers and their descendants, the Cajuns, but this music in fact refers to an indigenous mixture with complex roots in Irish, African, German, Appalachian as well as ...
