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Sharing the food, music, culture, and history at the heart of Cajun & Creole Country.

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Fiddle - Duotone

Cajun Music

By Rien Fertel on

Cajun music is a central component and marker of Cajun identity and culture in southwestern Louisiana. Largely accordion and fiddle-based and primarily sung in vernacular French, Cajun music has foundations in Indigenous American, African, German, Irish, Anglo-American, and Francophone folk…

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Sterling Accordion

Cajun & Creole Instruments: Accordion

By Rien Fertel on

A relatively recent invention, the bellows-driven, vibrating reed squeezebox known as the accordion, was first manufactured in Germany and later in Russia in the 1820s. It is unknown who brought the first accordion to South Louisiana or which French Creole or Acadian first played the instrument, but…

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