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Interview with Yvette Landry and Robin Miller

1:05 – Rattle Trap by Rafe Stefanini and Bob Herring
5:05 – Interview
- Talks about the recent event, Fiddler’s Convention
8:00 - Katrina by Eric Frey
11:08 – Interview with Yvette Landry
- Met Dirk Powell and came to meet several other musicians through him
- Went to Ashoken and connected with musician friends.
- Through connections with friends, she went to Fiddler’s Convention
14:34 - Black Eyed Suzannah from Fiddler’s Convention
19:23 – Interview with Robin Miller

Interview with Clelia Stefanini

01:10 – Breaking Up Christmas by Clelia and Rafe Stefanini
05:20 – Interview
- Dad moved to the United States from Italy in the early 1980’s
- Grew up playing old time music with mom and dad
12:12 – Old Time Train 45 by Roan Mountain Hill Toppers
16:28 – Pas Javier by Balfa Toujours
20:30 – Interview
- Grew up listening to Old Time, Cajun, and Irish music
- Wasn’t really interested in the music as a child, but suddenly became interested as a teenager
25:28 - Pig in a Pen by Tara Nevins

Michael Tisserand Collection

Donated in 2020 by American author and journalist Michael Tisserand, this collection consists of interviews and live performances of musicians associated with Louisiana traditional music, conducted as research in his 1998 book “The Kingdom of Zydeco.”

Interview with Chris Stafford

QUI-011 – Episode with Chris Stafford
01:05 – Bosco Stomp by Feufollet
04:40 – Interview
- Started playing accordion at eight years old
- Family would play Cajun music around the house
- Was in French immersion
- Took lessons with Steve Riley
9:24 – Bayou Noir by Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
13:55 – J’ai fait mon idée by Filet
16:40 – Interview
- Would speak French with grandparents
- Met Chris Segura through Helen Boudreaux
- Started playing fiddle at nine years old

Interview with Chris Segura

1:03 - McGee’s Reel by Feufollet
3:33 – Interview
- Born in New Orleans and grew up in Berwick, Louisiana
- Family would play Cajun music around the house
- At four years old, parents would go to Marc Savoy’s jams and old Cajun musicians’ houses
- Started listening to records at three years old
7:22 – Two Step de Eunice by Amédé Ardoin
10:45 – Zydeco Gris Gris by Beausoleil
13:47 – Interview
- Talks about Feufollet experimenting with Cajun music
- Parents would go Mulatte’s and the Liberty often

Interview with Chaz Justus

20:14 – Nobody's Dirty Business by Mississippi John Hurt
23:15 – Interview
- Went out to blues jams in Baton Rouge around age eighteen/nineteen years old
- Listened to Reverend Gary Davis, Doc Watson, Mississippi John Hurt
- Met Josh Caffrey, Richard Burgess, and Joel Savoy when they played in an old-time, Irish, and Cajun band called Brother Theresa.
- Started the Red Stick Ramblers with Joel Savoy, Glenn Fields, Ricky Rees, and Lindsay Young. Mostly played Cajun and Swing music.

Interview with Cedric Watson

00:58 – Bosco Stomp by Boozoo Chavis
3:50 – Interview
- The radio was one of the ways he got into Creole French music
- Wanted to help people understand Creole
- Originally from Texas
- Formed Cedric Watson and Bijou Creole
8:58 – Two Step d’Amédé by Amédé Ardoin
11:59 – Interview
- Talks about how Cajun Creole, and Zydeco use the same songs and share a similar language, and how they differ from each other
- Talks about how Cajun takes Country influences and Creole and Zydeco take R&B influences

Interview with Cedric Watson

1:08 – Lala by Cedric Watson
4:10 – Interview
- Talks about recent trip to Haiti with Corey Porche
- Had a friend who lived in Haiti
- Was always interested in Haiti through the Louisiana Creole connection
- Talks about the band, Troubadours
8:40 – Je vais by Troubadours
14:22 – Interview
- When they got to the airport in Haiti, they saw a sign that said, “Musiciens Zydeco”, and they were brought to a VIP room
- There was cattle running around in the city
- Met lots of Haitian musicians

Interview with Caleb Klauder

0:55 – Sick, Sad and Lonesome by Caleb Klauder
4:17 – Interview
- Currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
- Grew up on Orcas Island, Washington.
- Played with the Foghorn Trio, and the Caleb Klauder Band at the last Blackpot Festival
- Lots of music around while growing up
- Started singing in church
- Started playing saxophone in middle school band
- Got a guitar, and started writing songs with a friend
- Started playing music seriously in high school
- Got into Bob Marley from his cousin’s record collection

Interview with Bobby Michot

0:59 - Cote Gelée by Les Frères Michot
4:15 – Interview
- Father was born in Lafayette, grandparents were from Avoyelles Parish, mother was born in Patterson, mother’s mother was from Iberia Parish, and mother’s father was from Bayou Darbonne.
- Laura Normand, his great grandmother who was from Avoyelles Parish, played the accordion.
- Laura Normand’s mother, who was a Gaspard, was a ballad singer.
- Blind Uncle Gaspard was one of his cousins.

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