Center for Louisiana Studies Archival Catalog

BeauSoleil: Michael Doucet, Jimmy Breaux, David Doucet:

00:00 - Jimmy Breaux explains playing the accordion
01:40 - The reality and challenges of being a Musician
05:09 - Experience with being heckled
11:27 - David talks about guitar playing
18:15 - 'T'en a eu mais n'auras plus'
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00:00:00 - "The USL Theme Song"
00:02:15 - 'Ossun Two Step'
00:06:37 - 'J'ai Fait Mon Idée'
00:11:42 - 'One Step de Chameau'

00:21:35 - 'Valse D'ecrevisse'
00:27:00 - untitled
00:34:30 - untitled
00:40:38 - 'La Valse de la Belle'

00:49:52 - 'Wafus Two Step'
00:58:14 - 'Kaplan Waltz'
01:06:37 - 'OST Special'
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Zachary Richard:

00:01:39 - Richard begins with his youth, as well as his musical origins in choir
00:04:04 - Days at Tulane Univesity; radical involvements in correlation with the Moratorium March of 1969
00:06:35 - Timeline of events that ignited becoming a musician, and first expieriences in the music industry
00:09:30 - Cajun upbringings and the start of playing Cajun music

00:11:08 - Zachary Richard answers questions from the class; first, about his accordion mentor-Felix Richard, alongside learning to play
00:15:55 - Continuing with the role of French from his past to present, going on to how it shaped his life and music
00:25:45 - Gives personal beliefs/opinions on the state and future of Francophone culture in Louisiana
00:34:25 - Richard picks up his guitar, then breakdowns the influences behind his music

00:38:09 - Clifton Chenier, their relationship, and Chenier's impact on him
00:42:20 - Dabbles on different styles of Zydeco
00:43:18 - Zachary Richard plays his song 'Clif's Zydeco,' and discusses it. Later, the class briefly joins in
00:50:30 - New album and it's title song 'Le Fou,' explaining the conncetions within

00:56:18 - Zachary Richard performs 'Le Fou'
00:59:45 - The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Gulf Coast oil spill 2010), and Richard's ideology on being a positive change in the world
01:08:00 - Zachary Richard performs 'Sunset On Louisianne
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A.M. Symposium:

00:00:00 - Dr. Mark DeWitt opens the symposium and introduces U.L. Lafayette President: Dr. Joseph Savoie

00:00:46 - Dr. Barry Ancelet comments on the history of Festival Acadiens and its connection with ULL
-then plays a recording the Lomaxes made of the first school president Edwin L. Stevens singing

00:02:36 - Dr. Savoie continues on about the relationship between the University and the Festival, as well as the uniqueness of Lafayette culture
-comments on the connection the university has with traditional music and closes with final greetings

00:06:56 - Dr. Mark DeWitt introduces keynote speaker, Dr. Nick Spitzer of Tulane University

00:07:54 - Spitzer introduces himself and gives a personal account of his background with Cajun music, as well as how Dewey Balfa impacted his initial Cajun music experiences

00:12:03 - Impacts of music festivals and experience with musicians at festivals
00:12:53 - Encounters with Bois Sec Ardoin, and black creole music
00:16:38 - Alan Lomax's visions for traditional music and his mobile recording studio
00:20:02 - Lomax’s "most valuable" recordings in Louisiana. In 1938: the recordings of Jelly Roll Morton

00:22:23 - How Lomax chose who he'd record; the conversations Lomax and Jelly Roll shared
00:24:10 - Jelly Roll’s influence on Jazz, Lomax's opinion, and his work in New Orleans
00:27:06 - St. Cyr, the influence on Lomax, and his musical background
00:28:44 - Spitzer plays a recording of St. Cyr sharing his thoughts on music
00:31:04 - Breakdowns the recording
00:32:27 - Alan Lomax as a radio host
00:33:52 - Spitzer plays a clip from one of Lomax’s radio shows, featuring the classic Cajun waltz 'Jolie Blon'
00:37:32 - Lomax's shows throughout the U.S. compiled of many genres; and the shady reasons for his show in the U.K.

00:39:01 - Lomax’s work, and how it "defined documenting sound in America"
00:42:15 - The aspects of working with locals and scholars, who also produce and analyze music
00:44:05 - Spitzer plays an interview clip with Lomax and his thoughts on folk music to the public
00:46:45 - In the audio clip, Lomax shares his reasons of interest in Peter Seeger, and the relationship between them
00:48:15 - Further analysis of the Lomax/Seeger relationship

00:50:32 - How Lomax’s recording technology evolved; audio clip
00:52:03 - The morality of Alan Lomax
00:53:03 - Audio clip of Dewey Balfa and his Newport Waltz
00:54:03 - Early Cajuns being undocumented everywhere, even at festivals
00:55:08 - Lomax’s authenticity and motives behind his work
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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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Megan Brown:

00:00:34 - Mark DeWitt introduces Megan Brown and what specifically she finds interesting within Cajun music

00:02:21 - How Ann Savoy and Jane Vidrine helped her see that there is a place for women in Cajun music
-how she got interested in the ballads of homemaking women she found in the U.L. Lafayette Archives

00:03:40 - Brown's radio show and her mix of archival discoveries (conversations, songs, guides) and playing them on her weekend radio shows
00:06:54 - Compare & Contrasting of 'Sept Ans Sur Mer' and 'Six Ans Sur Mer

00:08:50 - Hearing Luneta Comeaux on the Lomax recordings
-"La Belle s'en va, c'est au jardin d’amour;" a song about a woman going into the garden of love
00:09:26 - Megan Brown sings "La Belle s'en va, c'est au jardin d’amour"

00:11:20 - Brown comments that the story in this song is only partially sung
-She goes on to say that this is something that happened quite often in old recording days
-this might be because there was limited room on recording discs or the people being recorded thought nobody would want to hear the whole song

00:14:12 - Learning to sing at a young age
00:14:44 - Her process of writing and translating songs as well as playing/learning an instrument
00:17:13 - Work with ballads, and a group of people she met up with in Brittany, France, whom she worked on ballads with

00:19:55 - Megan Brown sings two versions (1. Brittany, France 2. Louisiana) of 'Le Garcon Sans Soucis'
-Afterward, she explains the story of the song

00:24:20 - Favorite songs and some of the history behind them
00:27:50 - Megan Brown sings 'La Fete Printeniere'

00:29:40 - Recorded music and current projects
00:33:22 - The story of her next song
00:35:49 - Megan Brown sings 'Un Rossignol Sauvage'
00:39:40 - Brown talks about the sources she learned from and her experiences with French singers in Brittany
00:41:00 - Being present at "Singing Meals" held in France

00:43:12 - The performance and emotion put into singing ballads
00:47:04 - Difference between remembering the words/verses to ballads versus standard Cajun songs
00:51:14 - Story of the next song; originally by the Hoffpauir sisters
00:53:32 - Megan Brown sings 'Mademoiselle Emelie'
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U.L. Lafayette students and members of the Vermillion Express sit down with Professor Daniel Boner - Director of Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University

00:00:00 - Dr. Len Springer introduces Daniel Boner to the group
00:03:52 - Boner shows everyone one of his favorite tunes from the 1950's
00:06:10 - He begins to explain how this particular song came to be, the artist behind it, then common themes and the usual suspects of bluegrass
00:15:48 - The class listens to the Bluegrass Album Band's version of "Blueridge Mountain Home"
00:19:12 - Boner recommends artists to listen to, like Bluegrass Album Band

00:21:11 - The discussion turns to first learning to play music, then band member stories
00:30:19 - Vermillion Express plays '40 years' with Daniel Boner
00:35:29 - 'Are You Missing Me?'
00:40:30 - Boner talks about the importance of "playing together" in a groove
00:46:40 - The students begin perfecting 'Are You Missing Me?' with each other
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Students of the MUS 376 Recording class are visited by Professor Daniel Boner - Director of Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University - along with the Vermillion Express

During the class period, Boner focuses on recording acoustic instruments (techniques, methods, procedures, etc.) using members of Vermillion Express as examples, allowing the class to learn up close how to record them

00:02:30 - Boner opens the session with an introduction and agenda
00:06:08 - Acoustic Guitar
00:10:22 - Banjo
00:15:36 - Mandolin
00:19:07 - Dobro
00:23:55 - Fiddle
00:27:51 - Upright Bass

00:37:12 - Recording students head into the studio to listen to the instruments mic'd up, then sound check
00:52:53 - Vermillion Express plays 'Blue Ridge Cabin Home'
00:58:03 - 'Blue Ridge Cabin Home' (Take 2)
01:03:00 - Everyone listens to the recordings in the studio
01:09:40 - Boner takes questions from the students
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Vermillion Express:
Dr. Len Springer (Fiddle), Alyssa McMurray (Mandolin/Vocal), Johnathan Cochran (Bass/Vocal), Dylan Trahan (Guitar/Vocal), Dakota Pique (Guitar/Banjo), Glenn Lancon (Mandolin/Vocal), Bryan Sims (Banjo)

00:00:00 - Dr. Len Springer gives an introduction of Vermillion Express
00:01:46 - Wreck of the Old '97
00:05:30 - 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot'
00:09:07 - 'When You Say Nothing at All'
00:14:52 - 'Blue Ridge Mountain Home'

00:18:42 - 'Old Dangerfield'
00:23:21 - 'You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive'
00:29:33 - 'Wrecking Ball'
00:33:42 - 'Blue Mountain Wreck'
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Cajun Ensemble:
Mitch Reed (Fiddle), Ken Stewart (Accordion/Vocal), Dutch Donland (Guitar/Vocal), John Prestigiacomo (Fiddle), Colleen McDaniel (Mandolin), Sean Broussard (Banjo/Vocal), Garrett Wood (Bass), Garland Bernard (Drums)

00:00:00 - Untitled 1
00:02:56 - 'La Veuve de Veuf'
00:05:59 - Untitled 2
00:07:49 - 'Balfa Waltz'
00:11:57 - 'L'anse aux pailles'
00:14:31 - Untitled 3

Zydeco Ensemble:
Nathan Williams Jr. (Accordion/Vocal), Joshua "Smoov Ross" Martin (Drums 1), John Cochran (Guitar), Kevin Guilfou (Saxophone), Brennan Trahan (Bass), Taylon Robicheaux (Drums 2)

00:17:32 - 'Zydeco Hee Haw'
00:21:58 - 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door'
00:27:55 - 'Bonsoir Moreau'
00:32:03 - 'Go Hard or Go Home'

MUS 331 Cajun and Creole Vocals Class:

00:35:30 - Instructor Kristi Guillory introduces her students (Zoe Huval, Lillian Voorhies, Camille [lastname?]) on stage to sing the next song.
00:36:04 - 'Tout Un Beau Soir'

Instructor Ensemble:
Kristi Guillory (Accordion/Vocal), David Greely (Fiddle/Vocal), Brazos Huval (Fiddle), Mitch Reed (Bass), Wilson Savoy (Keyboard), Nathan Williams Jr. (Drums)

00:38:22 - 'Blues de Tac-Tac (Popcorn Blues)'
00:44:28 - 'Reno Waltz'
00:47:57 - 'J'etais au Bal (I Went to the Dance)'
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{Song titles were not announced from the stage. The following titles are a best guess, based on recurring lyrics}

Songs From the Lomax Collection:

00:00:00 - Chris Stafford, Steve Riley, & Chris Segura play a Wayne Perry tune {cont.}
00:00:50 - 'Wayne Perry Blues'
00:04:04 - Dr. Ancelet tells a story about the Hoffpauir Sisters, then Jure
00:07:13 - Jeffery Broussard & His Sisters: Virginia Bellard, Sandra Davis, Octavia Sorrell, and Vivian Antoine perform 'Rockaway'
00:09:25 - recurring lyric indecipherable

00:11:02 - 'Jure My Lord'
00:13:06 - 'Goodbye [?]'
00:15:38 - 'Train is Comin' Down the Track'
00:18:22 - 'Goin' Home'
00:20:19 - 'Pick a Bale of Cotton'
00:22:33 - 'There's a Leak in this Old Building'

00:29:40 - Dr. Josh Caffery, Megan Brown, Kelli Jones, Kristi Guillory, and The Broussard Sisters join to sing a song
00:37:25 - Megan Brown and Dr. Caffery perform 'Madame Emelie'
00:42:00 - Kristi Guillory and Dr. Caffery perform 'Jolie Brune'
00:44:58 - Guillory, Brown, and Jones sing 'Dans Mon Chemin' by the Hoffpauir Sisters
00:47:45 - 'La Fete Printeniere'
00:50:50 - Chris Stafford, Krisit Guillory, and Chris Segura perfrom 'Saint Catherine'

00:54:54 - Feufollet begins their set with 'Femme L'a Dit'
00:59:58 - Ashley Hayes joins the band for a Hoffpauir Family tune called 'The Keys to the Prison'
01:04:56 - 'Ouvre la porte'
01:08:36 - Dr. Ancelet and Jeff Patrick Mould reflect on Alan Lomax and farewells
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