Hey, everybody, pretty quiet in here lately... i hope everybody is doing alright and real busy fiddling! Anyways, getting more familiar with cajun music, I...
I know that the Balfa Brothers were also known as "The Musical Brothers". They were; Will, Dewey,and Harry Balfa, also Hadley Fontenot. Could it be Iry...
www.balfatoujours.com, www.basinbrothers.com, info on the Dutch band Des Fais Do Do (sp? maybe a hyphen on Do-Do), Ann Savoy's book are all great places to ...
... Dewey's daughter, Christine, is in the band, along with her husband Dirk Powell, and Kevin Wimmer on fiddle, and I forget who else. ... Iry Lejeune's son....
... And Iry recorded Lovebridge as well, think it was his tune, but not sure. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web...
Hello, I would like to tell you that I studied Traditional Cajun Fiddle with Mr. Balfa when he was alive. He was also a friend. He used to teach at a place...
Thanks to all of you for the information, I've learned a few new things (and also the words to parlez nous à boire and waltz du pont de l'amour at the same...
Hi, I live in Bayou Chicot and belong to the fiddle crazy group and I really enjoy playing with them. However I am a cajun and would like to learn how to play...
... I learned by bowing 2 strings without fretting first. Then I rock the bow and give a series of bows to each set. Once I had that I would take any 2...
Hi Larry, I have found that "Boil That Cabbage Down" (not cajun) to be an easy fiddle song to do with two strings. I found a website with the tab for one...
Hey everyone - Mitch Reed's group lessons have been great for me, as have the Louisiana Folk Roots camps and workshops. In fact, he teaches "Boil Them Cabbage...
Thanks for the help and suggestions on how to attack the doubling up on strings. I started the fiddle at the ripe old age of sixty one and what I really wanted...
It might help if you just concentrate on learning the melody on the single strings first then add the drones (doubling) later once you're comfortable with the...
Hi, my name is Larry and I'm from Bayou Chicot which is close to Ville Platte. I have been practicing and playing for almost a year now but still have not...
... devant ... Waiting ... I don't know that anyone is using the chat function. I find them very annoying. However, you're certainly free to suggest a time...
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 00:50:22 -0000 "hearttrouble1942" ... Over on FIDDLE_CRAZY, they regularly use the chat to share fiddle tunes. I was at a session last...
You should contact Folk Roots, they have an office in Lafayette and do fiddle jams on thursdays. I think it is something like <louisianafolkroots.org> but you...
Hello - I am new to group, and have joined in search of advice. I am a member of another yahoo stringed instrument group, cigarboxguitars, and have downloaded...
Hey man - That all sounds really, really cool. The Internet is freaking amazing. My non-expert thoughts are that there are a million fiddle tunings, especially...
Hi, I was just in Lafayette and visited the Creole exhibit at the Natural History museum where they had Canray Fontenot's original cigar box fiddle on display....
Wow - I had no idea about famous Cajun cigar box guitar players! We have got a National Cigar Box Music Museum guy in PA who love this! The link to the Cigar...
Hi Hugh and everybody, My name is Shane Speal and I'm the moderator guy at the Cigar Box Guitar Forum. Kurt just forwarded your messages regarding Canray ...
Awesome discussion y'all. Cool stuff. Sorry I got my fourths and fifths mixed up, and really appreciate the correction. Too early, too hurried. And yep, there...
... I'd think that you could tune it however you wanted. I'd guess that's how most people who played a cigar box violin in the depression would have done it....
Tangentially, there is a fun juvenile literature book, Fiddle Fever, by Sharon Arms Doucet that loosely chronicles a brief moment in time of Canray Fontenot....
From looking at those cigar box fiddles, one problem stands out to me: being able to play the E string or the G string without your bow hitting the side of...
