P.M. Symposium:

00:01:10 - Dr. Barry Ancelet on being a founder of Festivals Acadiens et Creoles as a student
00:02:13 - The festival's beginnings as a night concert
00:03:10 - What inspired Dewey Balfa to bring a music festival to Louisiana
00:04:07 - Media’s imagination of Cajun music in the mid-twentieth century
00:05:08 - People who worked to get the festival conceptualized; including Dewey Balfa

00:08:05 - Formation of the 'concert setting' and the creation process
00:09:25 - Roles that Dr. Ancelet and Keith Cravey held in the early festival's inception
00:10:23 - The fear of filling seats at Blackham Coliseum, and last minute preparations
00:13:15 - The arrival of terrible weather, and the anxieties that followed
00:14:28 - "A Tribute to Cajun Music" becoming an instant success; selling out the first year

00:16:22 - Recognitions of the huge contributors to the concert
00:19:29 - The concert setting presenting Cajun music differently for the first time ever
00:21:07 - The concert's second year, the brief hiatus, and the event's return
00:24:50 - The festival's plural name, and co-op of individual festivals
00:25:49 - CODOFIL, the Lafayette Jaycees, and the two festivals in 1980 (Spring & Fall)

00:27:20 - The festival's changes and developments over the years
00:30:50 - Funding the researching/archiving of Cajun music at U.L. Lafayette; archival CDs that are released each year
00:32:40 - Adjustments that performers make when playing for a festival audience versus playing a dance
00:35:43 - Preserving the culture while also allowing evolution
00:38:22 - Dr. Ancelet closes with photos from the previous festivals

00:43:54 - Mr. Keith Cravey with his first impressions of the concert idea, along with the technical barriers they faced
00:48:10 - The concert in Blackham Coliseum, and when Clifton Chenier performed
00:51:33 - Moving from the coliseum to the more spacious park
00:53:30 - Mr. Lance Lanier explains his experience and involvement with festivals

00:57:55 - South Louisiana beginning to trend throughout the country, bringing Mardi Gras traditions to festival stages throughout the country, and Dennis McGee

01:03:00 -The panel (Lanier, Ancelet, Cravey) answers questions from the audience
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