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Musical performance by Don Montoucet, Lionel Leleux, Canray Fontenot and Lawrence Ardoin

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

0:00 - Allons à Lafayette
3:25 - J'ai passé devant ta porte
8:50 - Chère toute toute
14:00 - La dernière valse
18:40 - Présentation des danseurs de Namur, Belgique - Philippe Gustin, V.P. Perret
21:38 - Les musiciens de la Belgique
24:33 - Une valse (untitled) - Les musiciens de la Belgique et Lionel Leleux
28:45 - Une ronde - Les musiciens de la Belgique; Roll Out The Barrel

Canray Fontenot and Lawrence Ardoin:
38:11 - Quoi faire
41:45 - Je peux pas t'oublier
45:42 - French Blues

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Musical performance by Don Montoucet and the Wandering Aces

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

Don Montoucet and the Wandering Aces (with Lionel Leleux, Virgil [18 years old] and Terry Montoucet, Hubert Maitre, Sammy Boudreaux (Don's son-in-law))

0:00 - Elle savait pas j'étais marié

4:06 - Hubert announcing to go see Deon Tegre? and Beausoleil at Booboo's
-"Allons à Lafayette/Lafayette Two Step" the "old way" for Mr. Jimmy Domengeaux
-Sammy thanks everyone for coming out tonight, especially the people from Belgium

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Musical performance by Dennis McGee, Michael Doucet, and Jeanie McLeary

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

Dennis McGee, Michael Doucet, Jeanie McLeary:

0:00 - Kathleen; La valse de l'Anse Maigre (La valse du soûlard)
-Played that with Frère Devillier (took his life). Dennis wrote a few songs
-La valse du Côteau Magnolia (a tune Dennis composed)

4:20 - La valse des Frugé (wrote this one too; Louisiana Waltz/Mon papa)
-Dennis made this song, but the Frugés played it; Dennis didn't think he could sing when he first started playing fiddle
-Sang more when younger and had whiskey (opens up everything)

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Interview with and musical perfomance by Dennis McGee

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

Dennis McGee:

0:00 - Les filles de Benglaise (fragment; Rye Whiskey); Informal discussion on rosin and bows

2:04 - La reel du sauvage; Dennis retuning his fiddle
-Fragment of "La valse qui me fait du mal"
-Tante Aline. Iry LeJeune did "Viens me chercher."

4:47 - La valse des orphelins/La valse des musiciens/Trop jeune pour te marier; Eunice Two-Step
8:05 - Evangeline/Saturday Night Special? (originally cataloged as "One-step de chameau")

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Interview with and musical performance by Varise Connor and Eric Benoit

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

Varise Connor (Violin), Eric Benoit (Guitar)

0:00 - La Valse à Elise Mallet. Learned tune from his father; 'Goodnight Waltz'

4:18 - 'Polka à Varise'; Lionel Leleux talking in the background
-La Mazurka d'Eugene Michon
-Danced between polka and waltz, but not sure because that was before his time/he was too young to remember

8:32 - Hobson; 'Drunkard's Waltz'. "Shorty" LeBlanc's theme song
12:53 - 'Down South'; 'Westphalia Waltz'

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Musical Performance by Les Frères Balfa/Lionel Leleux, Don Montoucet and the Wandering Aces

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

Les Frères Balfa (Dewey and Rodney Balfa, Dick Richard, Nonc Allie Young, & Ray Abshire), Lionel Leleux, and Don Montoucet and the Wandering Aces (Sammy Boudreaux; Virgil Montoucet; Terry Montoucet; Hubert Maitre)

0:00 - 'Cypress Inn Two-Step'
4:17 - 'J'ai un cœur cassé' (La Valse de Chagrin); 'J'ai été au bal'

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Musical performance by Varise Connor

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

Varise Connor:

0:00 - 'St. Louis Blues'. Used to play with his brothers in 1930s
-'Carroll County Blues'. Almost identical to 'St. Louis Blues'; Blues has been a part of Cajun music for a while

3:14 - 'Lake Arthur Stomp'; 'Lake Arthur Stomp' (reprise). He heard it before, but not like this
-Varise worked on it until he got it to where it is now

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