Interview with and musical performance by Sidney Hebert and the Hebert Brothers
Sidney Hebert (Accordion) and the Hebert Brothers with Sammy Boudreaux (Guitar), Antoine Hebert (Violin), Eddie Hebert (Triangle), Doris Hebert (Snare) and Don Montoucet (Accordion)
0:00 - Eunice Two-Step (Jolie catin); How Sidney Hebert began to play the accordion. Had band before they got married
-Didn't play dances, they played party/bouquet dances Monarch Accordion
-Family and musical brothers. 6 brothers and 3 sisters
-Oldest brother (Whitney) played accordion and fiddle, but can't play anymore because of his stroke
4:44 - Sidney sold Monarch and gave up music for 30 years
-There's now 9 years he's had his new accordion, he had forgotten everything; how Antoine Hebert began to play the violin
-Was in the service from 1942-1951, Started up again with Wilson Wright off and on
-Sidney played at parties, Antoine played a few dances; family history from around Maurice/Coulée Île des Cannes
-old time music--valse à vieux (deux) temps, mazurkas, polkas; father's music (danses du vieux temps)
-Sidney learned that polka from a record of Joe Falcon the other day
-Didn't learn from father, played new songs like "Fi Fi Poncho," "Pauvre hobo," "La valse qui m'a apporté en terre."
-Father didn't play that kind of music; Sidney is 66 years old, Antoine 56
-Sidney can't play like he used to; Timing is key for dancing
8:36 - Fi Fi Poncho; Assi dans la fenêtre de ma chambre (flip side of "Saute crapaud"?)
12:43 - Bayou Teche (Columbus Frugé); Valse de Grand Bois (La valse des Mèche; old way)
-Don says there's 3 ways to play that song
18:44 - Beginning dances with waltzes (playing two or three waltzes and then a two-step throughout the night)
-Valse de Grand Bois (modern way). Reprise on turn (Don Montoucet on accordion)
22:49 - Valse de Grand Bois (in the style of Mr. Caliste Richard). Reprise on turn
