This week we conclude our time in Louisiana with a trip to the Canadian Maritimes and Northern Ontario-the ancestral home of Cajun music. We’ll hear some classic and contemporary Cajun music from the prairies including the Balfa Brothers, Beau Soleil and The Savoy Family Band. Then we’ll finish up with some Zydeco recorded live by Clifton Chenier.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
        Smithsonian-Folkways

Matapat / “Petit fou & sa suite” / Petit Fou / Borealis
La Bottine Souriante / “Metis Suite” / Rock & Reel / EMI Hemisphere
Flapjack / “Reel des Chantiers-Breakwater Boys”/ Happy Slappy’s
        Flapjack Shack / Cabin Fever
Tidal Wave (Raz-de-Marie) / “le voyage” / Tidal Wave (Raz-de-Marie) /
        Great Meadow

Amede’ Breaux-Cleoma Breaux-Orphy Breaux / “Vas E Carrement” /
        Cajun Vol. 1 Abbeville Breakdoawn / Columbia
Leo Soileau & Mayuse LaFleur/ “Mama, Where You At?” / Raise
        Your Window
Country Music Hall of Fame
Chuck Guillory / “Grand Texas” / Folksongs of the Louisiana
        Acadians / Arhoolie
The Balfa Brothers / “Jolie Blonde” / Legends of Cajun Music /
        Cracker Barrel
Matapat / “La Vielle Galope” / Pete Fou / Borealis

Michael Doucet dit BeauSoleil / J’Ete’Au Bal / The Mad Reel /
        Arhoolie
Savoy Family Band / “Valse du Chagrin” / Savoy Family Band /
        Arhoolie
Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys / “Tout le Temps en Temps” /
        Live / Rounder

Clifton Chenier / “I Got the Blues” / Live / Arhoolie

Pete Seeger / “If I Had a Hammer (excerpt)” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
        Smithsonian Folkways