Octa Clark (April 30, 1904 in

Judice, Louisiana Judice is an unincorporated community in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. "Foreman Flats" was the original name of the area, which included Ridge Road in the north, Doc Duhon Road in the south, Lagneaux Road in the east, and South Field ...

– September 11, 1998 in Lafayette, Louisiana) was an American

Cajun accordion A Cajun accordion (in Cajun French: ''accordéon''), also known as a squeezebox, is single-row diatonic button accordion used for playing Cajun music. History Many different accordions were developed in Europe throughout the 19th century, and ...

player. Clark was a local Lafayette area musician and made three recordings of

Cajun music 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 ...

. Clark is buried in

Maurice, Louisiana Maurice is a town in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 964 at the 2010 census and 2,118 for the 2020 Census. It is part of the Abbeville micropolitan statistical area. History The village, originally called ''"M ...

Discography

* Octa Clark Old Time Cajun Music (CD 9018

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, 1981) * Ensemble Encore (Rounder Select Records, January 1992) * Cajun Spice: Dance Music from South Louisiana (CDROUN11550 Rounder Records, 1989)

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Cajun accordionists 1904 births 1998 deaths 20th-century American musicians 20th-century accordionists {{US-musician-stub

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