Dewey Balfa, Tony Balfa, Nonc Allie Young, and Rockin' Dopsie at Park Vista School in Opelousas, Louisiana:

-Talking about Cajun music. Acadians bringing their music with them. Very important and music as a universal language. Watches the audience;
-Acadians brought violins/fiddles with them. Depends on who uses it (Classical-violin, Cajun-fiddle);
-Tuned EADG. Dewey plays the fiddle because he can't read music;
-Bow made of hardwood and horse hair. White horses? Bleaching hairs. Loosening and tightening the bow;
-Rosin from pine trees makes the sound. Without rosin, the strings wouldn't sound;
-Each string tuned to a different note. Finding the song that you want by learning the fiddle;
-No frets, very sensitive instrument. It becomes part of you, like any body part;
-He doesn't not play music for a living;
-Nonc Allie Young, retired store owner. Very proud of his nephew who is a brick layer, Tony Balfa, Rodney's son. Playing country music and rock and roll. Filling his father's shoes. Rockin' Dopsie traveling the world;
-Country sound (single notes) vs. Cajun sound (with drones). T'es Petit et T'es Mignonne;
-Hear the hurt of the Acadians from years past;
-It's hard to play, but if you practice and want it enough, you'll get it. Dewey first starting and sounding like catching a cat by its tail. Practicing in the barn;
-Teaching Cajun fiddle, Dewey has a couple of albums or talking to a musician;
-Different sizes of fiddles, violas;
-Dewey started when he 13 years old. He can play fiddle, accordion, rhythm guitar, harmonica, mess around with piano. His fiddle is his best. Relaxing to play fiddle;
-Keeping rhythm is very important. Older people would teach rhythm before melody. Triangle--beating it without and then with choking (T'es Petit et T'es Mignonne);
-Anything that is worth doing is not easy. Learning to play spoons. People didn't have money to buy instruments (J'ai vu le loup, le renard, et la belette);
-Fiddlesticks with cross-tuned (BGDG). Fiddlesticks give rhythm, hit big and little strings (J'ai été au bal hier au soir (similar to The Rabbit Stole The Pumpkin, Joe Falcon's Ne Buvez Plus Jamais)/Lost Indian (from Appalachian fiddler);
-Kids that speak French;
-Fiddle harder to play than accordion because there are no frets. Accordion (diatonic), you only get a certain note by pushing or pulling. Sour notes (no sour notes on accordion?);
-Playing festivals all over the world;
-Fiddle has every note there is;
-No instrument is easy, Dewey is partial to the fiddle;

-Why Dewey played music. Dewey never thought of music as a means of earning a living, but satisfying you. Playing music, he can be happy or cry while he's playing, but he enjoys it;
-Dewey professional or amateur?;
-Learning music is just like education, you have to study/practice to get good at it;
-All of Dewey's family played music by ear. No radio, television, very few phonographs (first record was in 1928 with Joe Falcon and Cleoma Breaux's Allons à Lafayette);
-Violins harder to play because they have to read, Dewey can't read music;
-Cajun music means a lot to the Cajuns;
-Dewey played at the Cotton Festival;
-1890-arrival of the German accordion. No amplification, very loud instrument. Hard to hear the fiddle. Accordion is 4 times as loud as a fiddle, with 4 sets of reeds;
-Playing for gatherings, accordion could be heard and became very popular;
-Second fiddle. Accordion could play melody and bass;
-Asthma Waltz;
-Eunice Two-step/Jolie Catin (without, then with bass);
-Late 1920s-1930s, Acadians adopted the rhythm guitar which has frets. G chords, everyone plays a G chord, makes it a band;
-People didn't know how to tune a fiddle to an accordion. Bands started when they figured out how to do it;
-Jolie Blonde (La Fille de la Veuve/Ma Blonde est Partie/La Valse de Gueydan/La Valse de Jolly Rogers/La Valse de Couillon);
-Nice to get a bunch of people together and play music. Never too young, never too old to enjoy music;
-Triple-row accordion, mainly used by the Black population. You can play anything on this accordion;
-Can play rock, blues, jazz, French, any music on the triple-row accordion. Make it sound like a violon, guitar, piano, saxophone;
-Bass side. Mix up Zydeco and Cajun;
-Breather to let the air out-Asthma Waltz. Using different buttons to get which ever notes he wants. He used to running all over, up and down (passe-partout);
-Joséphine, c'est pas ma femme (without, then with bass and full bass);
-Zydeco version of Jolie Blonde (Cajun-single, Zydeco-triple/double). Black people add a bluesy, jazzy feeling;
-Untitled Zydeco Blues number (same as on AN1-196). Playing the blues until 4 am. When he's lonesome and when his girlfriend puts him out. No one can play the blues like a Black. The Devil the first one to play the blues;
-Playing a song before it escapes hims, even if it's at 4 am;
-His son is 11 years old and he plays just as good as him. He can't read, he can only sign his name, no education, had to help his father working;

-Learning accordion upside-down on his father's accordion while he was working in the fields. He's been all over the world;
-If a musician/someone think he knows everything, he's lost everything. You never know too much in music, never think that you're too good. Never will learn all, he's still learning. Allie has been playing for 60 years and he's still learning;
-Accordion weighs about 10-12 lbs for diatonic, 40 lbs for triple-row;
-Remember music, or what 'yes' or 'no' means, you just memorize it;
-Mamou Mardi Gras;
-Country, Bluegrass, can play any style of music that they know how;
-Dewey loves to play fiddle, but he does sometimes get tired of it;
-Not a group, working with different people each program. Like to play together;
-Hard to play accordion;
-Being on television all over the world. 10 albums of Dewey and his late brothers;
-Dewey's been playing for 50 years, Tony since he's knee-high, Allie for 60 years, Dopsie for 27 years-he got married when he first started playing music. Watching Rockin' Dopsie on channel 15 Saturday from 4-5 pm. Allie will be on tv on March 21st from 4-5 pm;