Live Performance and Interview by Hector Duhon and Octa Clark

Accession No.: 
LO2-011

1. Tapes 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313 - Octa Clarke
-Grand Mamou
-La valse de chagrin
-Hathaway Two Step
-B.O. Sparkle Waltz
-Catch My Hat (00:08:40)

Interview with Octa Clarke and Hector Duhon:
-La danse du mariage - Old style wedding dance
-Hector talking about learning to play the fiddle, making a cigar box fiddle (00:15:15)
-First amplifiers (00:17:00)
-Dances in the old days - instrumentation, addition of steel guitar, house dances (00:17:40)
-Fights at dances in the Marais Bouleur (00:19:15)
-Songs Octa wrote - Dixie Rambler Special, Back of Town Two Step, Freight Train Blues, Black Top Blues, Duson Breakdown, Lafayette Breakdown, etc (00:24:20)
-Discussing songs and lyrics
-growing up and learning to play music (00:30:50)
-Octa and Hector's musical chemistry from playing together for so long
-Reasons for singing loud and in a high register (00:35:00)
-Amédé Ardoin (00:44:20)
-Talking about their parents - music in their families; (00:45:50)
-Conversation about dreams (00:56:10)
-Octa talking about how rough his father was when he was young
-Being forced to speak English in school (01:06:20)

2. Tape 1314 and 1315 - Grand Coteau, LA - Exterior of houses, graveyard footage (01:10:10)

Media Type: 
Video
Collection: 
Lomax Video
Subject: 
Louisiana, Cajun, French, Music, Accordion; Dance
Creator: 
Alan Lomax
Coverage Spatial: 
Lafayette, LA
Publisher: 
Association for Cultural Equity
Rights Usage: 
All rights reserved
Language: 
English
French
Meta Information
Duration: 
01:34:!2
Cataloged Date: 
Monday, June 25, 2018
Digitized Date: 
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Original Format: 
VHS
Digital Format: 
mp4
Storage Location: 
Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore - Drawer 45