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3 unusual facts about cajun


Floyd Sonnier

An internationally acclaimed pen-and-ink artist, he specialized in drawings depicting Cajun culture, lifestyle and family, particularly scenes from the first half of the 20th century.

Fraze Pavilion

The Lincoln Park Civic Commons, just outside the Pavilion Gates, is home to several local festivals and music events, including the Swamp Romp Cajun-Zydeco Festival; Blues Fest; Festival of the Vine, a wine and jazz festival; Spass Nacht, an Austrian Festival in honor of Kettering's Sister City, Steyr, Austria, and Art on the Commons & a juried art festival.

Midnight Bayou

Declan is also distracted by an undeniable attraction to Cajun local, Lena Simone.


'Gator Bait II: Cajun Justice

'Gator Bait II: Cajun Justice is a 1988 sequel to the 1974 thriller film 'Gator Bait, written, produced and directed by Beverly Sebastion and Ferd Sebastion.

159th Fighter Wing

The title "Coonass Militia" was changed to "Cajun Militia" in 1992 because of concerns about its "political incorrectness".

Alameda Civic Ballet

February 2004 - Participation in the Alameda Education Foundation Mardi Gras Gala performing Festive Les Bons Temps (The Good Times) set to the music of Zydeco/Cajun King, Tom Rigney.

Amanda Shaw

Shaw has recorded two independently released albums, Little Black Dog (2001) and I'm Not a Bubble Gum Pop Princess (2004) -- the latter including traditional Cajun melodies as well as eclectic choices like The Clash's Should I Stay or Should I Go and The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (changed to "Girlfriend").

Amos Moses

The song tells the story of a one-armed Cajun alligator hunter named Amos Moses, son of Doc and Hanna Milsap, who lives "about 45 minutes southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana".

Ann Savoy

As a record producer she produced, among others, the Grammy Award nominated tribute to Cajun music, Evangeline Made: A Tribute to Cajun Music, featuring singers Linda Ronstadt, John Fogerty, Nick Lowe, and other noted musicians.

Beth Patterson

A native of Lafayette, Louisiana, Patterson began her professional career in her teens as a classical oboist and a Cajun bass player.

Black turtle bean

Black turtle bean is a small, shiny variety of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), especially popular in Latin American cuisine, though it can also be found in Cajun and Creole cuisines of south Louisiana.

C. J. Chenier

In 1992 Chenier played accordion on "Cajun Song", a track on the Gin Blossoms' album, New Miserable Experience.

Cajun English

In the movie The Green Mile based on a book by Stephen King and starring Tom Hanks, a character named Eduard Delacroix is a Cajun prisoner who keeps a pet mouse.

Cami McCormick

McCormick worked in the 1980s and early 1990s as a morning news broadcaster on WEZB (B-97FM) in New Orleans with "Cajun" Ken Cooper, then later with Walton and Johnson in the mornings.

CFMA

Cajun French Music Association, an association dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Cajun music and culture

Clarence Garlow

"The song featured some of the same kind of broken Cajun-isms as Hank Williams's "Jambalaya".

Cowgirl's Prayer

Despite the lack of radio airplay, accomplanying videos for the album's three singles, "High Powered Love", the Cajun-themed "Crescent City", and Jesse Winchester's "Thanks to You", received considerable exposure on CMT.

D. L. Menard

He has also recorded with non-Cajun artists, including Bryan Ferry.

Diatonic button accordion

USA: John Kimmel, PJ Conlon, Joe Derrane, Billy McComiskey (Irish traditional); John Nolan, (Irish traditional) Marc Savoy (Louisiana Cajun); John Delafose, Boozoo Chavis (Louisiana "zydeco"); Flaco Jimenez ("conjunto")

Three-row systems are also popular in Mexico and the United States (in Conjunto, Tejano, Zydeco and Cajun musics) and Colombia (in Vallenato and Folklor musics).

Elemore Morgan, Jr.

Morgan contributed photography for a 1984 book titled The Makers of Cajun Music, which he co-produced with Cajun folklorist Barry Jean Ancelet, who wrote the text.

Étouffée

Around 1983 a waiter at a popular Bourbon Street restaurant Galatoire's brought the crawfish étouffée dish in to his boss to try, at the time most of the food in New Orleans was French Creole but this Cajun dish was a hit.

Evangeline Records

The name for the label comes from John Murry's daughter's name, Evangeline, born in 2004 and named after the tale by Longfellow and of Acadian and Cajun history.

Fiddlesticks

Fiddlesticks are traditional instruments used to add percussion to old-time and Cajun fiddle music, allowing two persons to play the fiddle at the same time.

Floyd Soileau

Over the past 40 years, Swallow Records has released 265 45rpm single records and 151 albums of Cajun French music, including recordings by Adam Hebert, Belton Richard, Dewey Balfa and the Balfa Brothers, Nathan Abshire, Jambalaya Cajun Band, Paul Daigle & Cajun Gold, D.L. Menard, and many more, plus recordings by the Cajun French story teller, Marion Marcotte.

Floyd Sonnier

Floyd Sonnier (1933 to April 6, 2002), known as "beau Cajun" or the “artist of the Cajuns,” was a native of Pointe Noire, Louisiana and a lifelong resident of Louisiana's Acadiana region.

Garey Forster

A defender of cockfighting, then Representative Raymond "La La" Lalonde, then a Democrat from Sunset in St. Landry Parish, but who later switched parties, said that the practice is ingrained in Cajun heritage: “This is part of their culture and heritage, and they're not going to give up on this issue without a fight.

Harrison Fontenot

After forming his band, the Cajun Trio, he recorded songs during the 1960s and 1970s such as "La Cravat", "Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette", "If Teardrops Were Pennies", "I Passed in Front of your Door", "Jealous Heart", and several holiday songs.

Hayes, Louisiana

DeRouen is a Cajun music guitarist and has played with Phil Menard and Joe Bonsall.

Holly Beach, Louisiana

In a close parody of the 1960s hit "Under the Boardwalk" by The Drifters, the lyrics explain that cajun vacationers "ain't got no boardwalk, just got seeweed, but we always pass a real good time at Holly Beach."

Howard Mitcham

James Howard Mitcham (1917 in Winona, Mississippi – August 22, 1996 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) was an American artist, poet, and cook best known for his books on Louisiana's Creole and Cajun cuisines and that of New England, with an emphasis on seafood.

Huey P. Meaux

Nicknamed "The Crazy Cajun," his credits included such hits as "She's About a Mover" by the Sir Douglas Quintet, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" by Freddy Fender, "You'll Lose A Good Thing" by Barbara Lynn, "Talk To Me" by Sunny & The Sunliners, and "Big Blue Diamonds" by Gene Summers.

Ivan Klisanin

2010 Grammy Winner for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album for Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band's, Zydeco Junkie.

J. Minos Simon

He was the author of two books about Louisiana and its legal heritage: Law in the Cajun Nation (1993), in collaboration with David Leon Chandler, and The Devil in the Law: A Judicial Moral Juridical Decline (1999).

Marie Callender's

The type of cuisine served is mainly American, although many of the dishes are slanted towards styles of preparation that resemble Italian, Mexican, French, Cajun, or Chinese.

Pirogue

Johnny Horton, an avid Louisiana fisherman who celebrated Cajun customs and culture, also mentions pirogues in his 1956 song "I Got a Hole in My Pirogue."

Royal Proclamation of 2003

Because the King never responded to the petition, Warren A. Perrin, a Cajun attorney and cultural activist from Erath, Louisiana, in the 1990s resurrected the petition and threatened to sue Elizabeth II (great-great-great-great-granddaughter of George III), as Queen in Right of the United Kingdom, if the British government refused to acknowledge the illegality of the Grand Dérangement.

Scooters Union

Their sound is described as a blend of rock, pop, Cajun, and African.

Snakes of Shake

Snakes of Shake were a Scottish band formed in 1984, whose indie pop sound incorporated cajun and folk influences.

Stephanie Swift

Stephanie Swift was born in Louisiana and has described herself as a "mutt" in terms of ethnicity: Cajun, Irish, English, French, Spanish, Filipino and Norwegian.

The Balham Alligators

The Balham Alligators were a band from London that mixed rock 'n' roll, cajun, country and R&B.

The Alligators played a hybrid blend of musical styles, including Rock 'n' Roll', Blues, R&B, Celtic Folk, Swamp-Pop, Country, Swing, Cajun & Zydeco.

The Wallets

The Allen Toussaint-produced debut album Take It was released in 1986, described by SPIN as urban soul and funk with "a Cajun smell to their work".

WEZB

Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto (did WDSU-TV 6 sports reports during the morning show with "Cajun" Ken Cooper in the 1980s; deceased)

Cami McCormick (news director & host of the "B-97's 60-Second News Update;" worked alongside "Cajun" Ken Cooper in the mornings, and later "Walton & Johnson". Left for Moscow in 1991 to do an all-English radio show until its end in 1994, then became a CNN reporter. Now a dedicated journalist with CBS news. Received three Edward R. Murrow awards, as well as two Gracie Allen Awards, among others)


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