The Savoy Family Cajun Band - PONTCHARTRAIN 2012

houseisland

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OK. Now I'm going to confuse anyone who looks about my musical tastes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LwwQbUegrE

I went to see the Savoy Family Cajun Band last year on a cold rainy winter evening here in Vancouver. It was great, about as much fun as you could have with $15 (the ticket price) without breaking any laws.

If you get a chance to see them, go. Make sure it's at a place where you don't have sit down - a small hall or club. Take your significant other. Practice up your two step and waltz moves beforehand. Get gussied up in your dancing gear and off you go.

The crowd in Vancouver had a whole lot more life in them than the deadbeats in the video above - all ages - little kids out dancing, your grandparents out dancing. Lots of young people with fiddle cases in the audience.

Buy a CD or two from them, as well. Great long distance driving music. Cuts through road noise like nothing else.

Nice people, too. Southern manners. Friendly. Talk to them. They seem to like it.
 
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I grew up in southwest Louisiana and this was the music that I heard in our home and at the Saturday night dances my parents went to and took us kids along to fend for ourselves. Parents wouldn't think of doing that now.
I saw Marc Savoy in a small club in Breaux Bridge a few years ago, during the annual crawfish festival. He has the largest hands of any accordion player that I've ever seen.

Laissez les bons temps rouler! :friendly_wink:

Joe
 
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