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Amédé Ardoin
Amédé Ardoin (March 11, 1898 – November 3, 1942) was an American musician, known for his high singing voice and virtuosity on German-made one-row diatonic button accordions. He is credited by Louisiana music scholars with laying the groundwork in the early 20th century for both Creole and Cajun music. He wrote several songs now regarded as Cajun and zydeco standards. His music and playing greatly inspired post-World War II Cajun accordion makers such as Marc Savoy. Early life and career Ardoin was born near Basile in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana a descendant of both enslaved and free people. Ardoin spoke only Cajun French and did not speak English, as was then common for most people in Cajun Country. Developing his musical talents in preference to undertaking farm work, he played at dances, often for Cajun audiences, with fiddle players Alphonse LaFleur and Douglas Bellard. Adam Fontenot, father of fiddler Canray Fontenot, was an early musical influence. He moved aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confirmation In The Catholic Church
Confirmation in the Catholic Church is one of the seven Sacraments (Catholic Church), sacraments. It is also one of the three sacraments of initiation into the Catholic Church, the other two being Baptism and First Communion. Description The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: It is evident from its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of Confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost ... Recall then that you have received the spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of right judgment and courage, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear in God's presence. Guard what you have received. God the Father has marked you with his sign; Christ the Lord has confirmed you and has placed his pledge, the Spirit, in your hearts. The Catechism of the Catholic Church sees the account in the Acts of the Apostles as a scriptural basis for Confirmation as a sacrament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tompkins Square Records
Tompkins Square Records is an independent record label producing new and archival releases of gospel, blues, jazz, and country music. History In 2005, Josh Rosenthal launched Tompkins Square Records in New York City after working 15 years in a variety of positions at Sony Music. Tompkins Square moved to San Francisco in 2011. Rosenthal runs the label on his own with help from an art director and publishing company. Albums Tompkins Square's first album was ''Imaginational Anthem'', an anthology of music by fingerstyle guitarists including Jack Rose, Sandy Bull, John Fahey, Max Ochs, and Kaki King. The series has grown to seven volumes. Tompkins Square issued a previously-unreleased concert recording by Tim Buckley, ''Live at the Folklore Center, NYC — March 6, 1967''. Tompkins Square has released several comprehensive gospel music compilations, including 2009's ''Fire In My Bones: Raw & Rare & Other-Worldly African American Gospel (1944–2007)'' and ''This May Be My Last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acadiana
Acadiana (; French language, French and Cajun French language, Louisiana French: ''L'Acadiane'' or ''Acadiane''), also known as Cajun Country (Cajun French language, Louisiana French: ''Pays des Cadiens''), is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population. Many inhabitants of Cajun Country have Acadians, Acadian ancestry and identify as Cajuns or Louisiana Creole people, Creoles. Of the 64 List of parishes in Louisiana, parishes that make up the U.S. state of Louisiana, 22 named parishes and other parishes of similar cultural environment make up this List of regions of the United States#Intrastate regions, intrastate region. Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, Lafayette Parish and the seven surrounding parishes are identified as the "Cajun Heartland, USA" district. Etymology The word "Acadiana" reputedly has two origins. Its first recorded appearance dates to the October 15, 1946, when a Crowley, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin
Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin (November 16, 1915 – May 16, 2007) was a Creole accordionist who specialized in the Creole music called "la la music" or "la musique Creole" (closely related to Cajun music) and was influential in what became zydeco music. Early life Ardoin was born in the unincorporated rural village of Duralde in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, to Gustave and Mary Louise (Ceasar) Ardoin. His father owned a guitar but was not a musician, nor was his mother. His father died of pneumonia when Alphonse was four years old. To earn money after Gustave's death, his mother took in laundry from white people and his older brother hired himself out to help support the family. Ardoin earned his nickname meaning "dry wood" because he would always be the first to run in from the fields during a rainstorm. After starting on the triangle with his cousin Amédé Ardoin and fiddler Dennis McGee, he learned traditional accordion at age 12, playing the style of Louisiana music that was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Party
A house party is a type of party held at the home of the party's host. Organization A house party might be organized several months or just a few hours in advance. News of a party may be spread by personal invitations, word of mouth, posted leaflets, or notices on social networking sites. Mostly people bring a six-pack or a few good bottles, some extra bags and pills, or a couple of boxes of cigarettes to a house party. Uninvited guests Broad notice of a party – sometimes unintentionally – can result in large numbers of people attending who do not know the host personally and may be disruptive. A person who attends a house party without an invitation is typically referred to as a " gatecrasher." Gatecrashing involves entering or participating in an event without authorization, often by blending in with invited guests or exploiting lapses in security. While some gatecrashers may be tolerated or even welcomed by hosts, they are generally viewed negatively due to co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis McGee
Dennis (Denus) McGee (January 26, 1893 – October 3, 1989) was one of the earliest recorded Cajun musicians. A fiddle player, he recorded and performed with Louisiana Creole people, Creole accordionist and vocalist Amédé Ardoin, with accordionist Angelas LeJeune, and with fiddlers Sady Courville (McGee's brother-in-law) and Ernest Frugé. The recordings with Courville and Frugé are among the few surviving examples of Cajun music as it existed before the influence of the accordion became prominent. McGee's repertoire included not only the waltz and the Cajun Two-Step, two-step common to Cajun music but also such dances as the One-Step, one-step, polka, mazurka, reel (dance), reel, cotillion, the varsovienne, and others. Early life Dennis McGee was the son of John McGee Sr. who was of French and Irish ancestry and Amelia, of French and Seminole Indian ancestry. Both sides of his family were Cajun. Amelia died when Dennis was two years old. His first language was French. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chataignier, Louisiana
Chataignier is a village in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 364 at the 2010 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. History The name ''Chataignier'' is French and means "chinquapin," a small chestnut. Chinquapins (''Castanea pumila'') grew abundantly in the surrounding prairie until the chestnut blight wiped them out. They are now non-existent in the Chataignier community. Gleanings from old records indicate that Chataignier's first settler was Ursiana Manuel, who came from Mexico via New Orleans circa 1793 when Louisiana was a Spanish colony and George Washington was serving as President of the new republic known as the United States of America. Manuel's descendants are still living on the original land grant obtained during the Spanish domination of Louisiana. Other early settlers mentioned include Jacques Fontenot, Louis Redan, General Garis de Flaugeac, Artemon Lafleur, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canray Fontenot
Canray Fontenot (October 16, 1922 – July 29, 1995) was an American Creole fiddle player, who has been described as "the greatest Creole Louisiana French fiddler of our time." Early life Canray Fontenot was born in L'Anse aux Vaches, near Basile, Louisiana; his family was from nearby Duralde. Fontenot, who grew up working on a family farm, inherited his musical skills from his parents, who played accordion; his father Adam, known as "Nonc Adam", played with Amédé Ardoin. Canray first played a cigar-box fiddle that had strings taken off the screen door of his home. His bow was made from the branches of pear trees and sewing thread. Canray stated: "So, we took some cigar boxes... In those days, cigar boxes were made of wood. So, we worked at it and finally made ourselves a fiddle. For our strings, we had no real strings ... we took strands off the screen door. We made fiddles out of that stuff, and then we started practicing." He visited a neighbor "to see how he tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiddle
A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and classical violins. For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a Violin construction and mechanics#Bridge, bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings. To produce a Timbre#Brightness, ''brighter'' tone than the deep tones of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional (Folk music, folk) styles, which are typically Music#Oral and aural tradition, aural traditions— ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cajun Country
Acadiana (; French and Louisiana French: ''L'Acadiane'' or ''Acadiane''), also known as Cajun Country (Louisiana French: ''Pays des Cadiens''), is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population. Many inhabitants of Cajun Country have Acadian ancestry and identify as Cajuns or Creoles. Of the 64 parishes that make up the U.S. state of Louisiana, 22 named parishes and other parishes of similar cultural environment make up this intrastate region. Lafayette Parish and the seven surrounding parishes are identified as the "Cajun Heartland, USA" district. Etymology The word "Acadiana" reputedly has two origins. Its first recorded appearance dates to the October 15, 1946, when a Crowley, Louisiana, newspaper, the ''Crowley Daily Signal'', coined the term in reference to the area of Louisiana in which French descendants of the Acadians settled. However, KATC television in Lafayette independently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cajun French
Louisiana French (Louisiana French: ''français louisianais''; ) includes the dialects and varieties of the French language spoken traditionally by French Louisianians in colonial Lower Louisiana. As of today Louisiana French is primarily used in the state of Louisiana, specifically in its southern parishes. Over the centuries, the language has incorporated some words of African, Spanish, Native American and English origin, sometimes giving it linguistic features found only in Louisiana.Thomas A. Klingler, Michael Picone and Albert Valdman. "The Lexicon of Louisiana French." ''French and Creole in Louisiana''. Albert Valdman, ed. Springer, 1997. 145-170.Thomas A. Klingler.Language labels and language use among Cajuns and Creoles in Louisiana" Ed. T. Sanchez and U. Horesh. ''Working papers in linguistics'' 9(2), 2003. 77–90. Louisiana French differs to varying extents from French dialects spoken in other regions, but Louisiana French is mutually intelligible with other di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Savoy
Marc Savoy ( ; born October 1, 1940) is an American musician, and builder and player of the Cajun accordion. Early life He was born on his grandfather's rice farm near Eunice, Louisiana, Eunice, Louisiana. His grandfather was a fiddler, who occasionally played with the legendary Dennis McGee, who was once a tenant farmer on his grandfather's property. Marc Savoy began playing traditional music when he was 12 years old. Career Savoy acquired a Sidney Brown (accordion maker), Sidney Brown accordion as a teenager, and within a few years was interested in making his own. After earning a degree in chemical engineering, in 1966 he went into business full-time as an accordion maker and player, based at his Savoy Music Center in Eunice. His wife is the singer and guitarist Ann Savoy, whom he met in 1975 and married in 1977. He has performed with Robert Bertrand, Dennis McGee, Rodney Balfa, Sady Courville, Dewey Balfa, D. L. Menard, and Michael Doucet, the latter of whom he plays with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
