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A brief history… The Jambalaya Cajun Band, a group that has been on the scene now for more than two decades, has a very polished sound that is product of their long association together, but their performances continue to remain fresh, energized by their obvious enjoyment playing Cajun music together. Fiddler Terry Huval, whose day […]
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A brief history… Jackie Caillier was born in Orange, Texas in 1952 and started playing Cajun accordion in 1969 – Ivy Dugas was born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1948 and has been playing Cajun music since he was 12 years old. With a combined 75 plus years of experience between the two, it’s no wonder
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A brief history… Ivy Dugas Ivy was born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1948 and has been playing Cajun music since he was 12 years old. He, along with his group, Jackie Caillier, Ivy Dugas and the Cajun Cousins, have been dominators at the Cajun French Music Association’s Le Cajun Awards year after year. Along withBand of the Year, Album
A brief history… Horace Trahan is currently lead singer and top-notch accordion player of an increasingly popular zydeco band. However, he started in the 1990s as a traditional Cajun music player and was raised in a traditional French-speaking household in Ossun, LA and heard Cajun music all his life. Cajun music fans recognize in his soulful,
A brief history… “Sit back, turn it up, hook up the mule, cause the wagon is loaded!” This type of band has been an idea of Kevin Dugas and Steve Riley for over ten years now. The idea was there, but nothing was ever put together until the middle of 2008. When Kevin put this group of
