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Musical performance by Canray Fontenot

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:01pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

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;

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Interview with and musical performance by Canray Fontenot

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:01pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

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;

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Interview with and musical performance by Canray Fontenot

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:01pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

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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Games and Pascal Stories

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:01pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

Continued from tape F-II-D-T-8-74:

-MamouPin Pi Poloron
-Rond rond rond 'tit marias; Bois Sec Ardoin; Des noires jaunes; Laver les vaisselles
-La porte du nord qu'est ouvert; L'homme qui pu(?) tait
-Pascale dans l'aeroplane; Contes du Pascale

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Ballads and Folk tales by Noélie Roulet

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:01pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

Noélie Roulet (72):

-'Le petit oiseau.'
-Learned when she was 8 years old from a play/with sisters (64 years she's been singing this song)
-Can repeat verses. Play for kids

(2:35) - J'ai passé devant ta porte
-J'étais à Lafayette (Allons à Lafayette)
-Doesn't remember all the different songs she knew at one time

(4:53) - Fais do-do mon bébé
-Mon bon vieux mari. On record

(7:45) - Compère lapin
-Au clair de la lune

(8:53) - 'Tit oiseau (rime)
-Pin pi po (rime)

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Musical Performance by Varise Conner and Michael Doucet

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:01pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

Varise Conner (Violin), Michael Doucet (Violin), Lionel LeLeux (Background), Unknown Rhythm Guitar Player

-Valse sans titre de Walter Aguillard in D
-Aguillards from Eunice

(4:04) - Fi Fi Foncho
-Step it Fast (T'en a eu, t'en auras plus)

(7:25) - Step it Fast (fragment)
-Lafayette Playboys Waltz/Eunice Waltz/Crowley Waltz/Mon Vieux Home/Scott Waltz in A

(10:02) - Untitled Waltz in G
-Swing (Carroll County Blues?) (Lionel seconding?)

(14:19) - Untitled Blues
-Memphis Blues

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Musical Performance by Varise Conner and Lionel Leleux

Thu, 01/05/2017 - 5:01pm -- Anonymous (not verified)

Varise Conner (Violin), Lionel Leleux (Violin), Eric Benoit (Guitar), Edgar Benoit (Guitar), Michael Doucet (Violin):

-Lake Arthur Stomp

(3:26) - Bursitis: problèmes à manier l'archet. Went doctor in Crowley for x-ray treatment
-Lionel already had it
-La valse à Andy (d'Oscar Aguillard)

(7:03) - La Valse à Andy/Oscar Aguillard reprise? (des Aguillard)
-Tous les deux pour la même/Hollybeach Waltz? in A
-Lionel playing with an accordion player/guitar player

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