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Music of Louisiana. The music of Louisiana can be divided into three general regions: rural south Louisiana, home to Creole Zydeco and Old French (now known as cajun music), New Orleans, and north Louisiana. The region in and around Greater New Orleans has a unique musical heritage tied to Dixieland jazz, blues, and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
1950s, Acadiana region, Louisiana, United States. Swamp pop is a music genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. Created in the 1950s by young Cajuns and Creoles, it combines New Orleans –style rhythm and blues, country and western, and traditional French Louisiana musical influences.
Born in Rayne, Louisiana, United States, [2] Allan, a Cajun, grew up in a musical family, and at age six obtained his first guitar.(His mother, the former Helen Falcon, was the goddaughter of Joseph Falcon and Cleoma Falcon, the first Cajun recording artists, and sometimes played rhythm guitar for their live performances. [3])
In September 2007, the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame honored Charles for his contributions to Louisiana music with an induction.. In 2005 the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur, Texas, inducted Charles into their Music Hall of Fame, which includes over eighty artists from the Gulf Coast region, including Janis Joplin, George Jones, Tex Ritter, ZZ Top, and others.
Ted Daffan. Helen Darling (singer) Bill Davis (musician) Jordan Davis (singer) Roxie Dean. Sara Douga. Donna Douglas. Ronnie Dunn.
www.yeproc.com /artists /c-c-adcock. C. C. Adcock (born Charles Clinton Adcock, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and blues rock musician, noted for his cajun, zydeco, electric blues and swamp pop -influenced sound and for his efforts to preserve and promote swamp pop music. He is also a Grammy-nominated music producer and film ...
Savoy appeared as a musician in the film Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and was the associate music director of the film All The King's Men, working on this project with T Bone Burnett. She has appeared in many documentaries on the subject of Cajun music including a Les Blank film, entitled Marc and Ann. [citation needed]
Mamouplayboys.com. Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys are an American Cajun band from southern Louisiana. [1] The band formed in 1988 and has since recorded 10 albums, nine of which are on Rounder Records. The band includes Steve Riley (accordion, b. 1969), David Greely (fiddle), Sam Broussard (guitar), Burke Riley (drums/guitar) and Philippe ...