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Interview with Ellis Richard

Ellis Richard:

Interview Lee and Irene Stelly, Jody, Elmo and Maude Ancelet

Lee Stelly, Irene Stelly, Jody Ancelet, Elmo Ancelet, Maude Ancelet,
Children's game - passing shoes, Pease-porridge, Rhymes, Jump rope games, Clapping games
History of Ossun - Martin Weber, Lee and Irene Stelly, Jody, Elmo and Maude Ancelet

Interview with Ellis Richard

Ellis Richard:

Musical performance by Canray Fontenot

Canray Fontenot:

-Fragment of Two-Step à Amédé. Plaque 78 tour pour les Hébert de Jeanerette;
-Someone died in a wreck. Surprised Canray. The eve of July 4th. Horses killed 5 people?;
-Harmonica (tuned to B?) with fiddle:
-Untitled Blues;

-Lake Charles Two Step/Chameau One Step and goes into 'Jongle à Moi' at the end (4:06);
-When Canray first started playing, 3 different ways to play on harmonica. Basses on the third time;
-La Robe Barrée/Madame Etienne?;

Musical performance by Canray Fontenot

Canray Fontenot;

-La dernière valse. Aldus Roger made that. Pretty waltz;
-Blues du voyageur (La Coulée Rodaire?);
-Bassing with special tuning/ Untitled Two Step (with special tuning for accordion). Learned that from other second fiddlers;

-Untitled Two Step à defunct Pop (5:52);
-Canray's uncle played with a certain tuning;
-Westphalia Waltz. Reprise with key change;

Interview with and musical performance by Canray Fontenot

Canray Fontenot:

-Chansons à Amédé (Lacassine Special, Two Step à Mama);
-J'ai Fait Une Grosse Erreur;
-Untitled Waltz (Part sounds like Rainbow Waltz);
-Fragment d'un two-step pris d'une disque 45 rpm (Les Belles Filles Veulent Plus Me Voir à Joe Falcon);

-Drunkard's Waltz (5:14);
-Reve de soulard;
-Quoi faire-à defunct Amédé. Alphonse sonnait la basse tringue;

-Blues fragment (11:30);
-Iry made Bosco Blues/World in a Jug himself;
-Rag/Polka fragment;

Interview with and musical performance by Canray Fontenot

Canray Fontenot, Michael Doucet:

-Chansons de son défunt père:
-Two Step de Misère (fragment)
-Les Balfas et Hadley Fontenot played one of his father's tunes (Le Two Step à Hadley)
-Not easy to play fiddle, not as easy as an accordion or guitar;
-La Valse à Don Montoucet (La Valse de la Grande Prairie?). Don played it in Mamou

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