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Acadians
The Acadians (, ) are the descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia (located in the Canadian Maritime provinces — Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and in the US state of Maine). Acadia was a colony of New France. Although today most of the Acadians and Québécois are francophone Canadians, Acadia was a distinct colony of New France, and was geographically and administratively separate from the French colony of Canada (modern day Quebec), which led to Acadians and Québécois developing two rather distinct histories and cultures. The settlers whose descendants became Acadians came from all the regions of France but coming predominantly directly from the cities.
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African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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Armand Assante
Armand Anthony Assante, Jr. (born October 4, 1949) is an American actor.
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Barry Jean Ancelet
Barry Jean Ancelet is a Cajun folklorist and expert in Cajun music and Cajun French. He has written several books, and under the pseudonym Jean Arceneaux he has written Cajun French poetry and lyrics to Cajun French songs.
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Bernardo de Gálvez
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Chitimacha
The Chitimacha (also Chitimachan, Chetimacha) are a Native American federally recognized tribe that lives in the U.S. state of Louisiana, mainly in St. Mary Parish. They currently number about 720 people. The Chitimacha language is a language isolate.
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Cuban American
A Cuban American () is a United States citizen who traces his or her "national origin" to Cuba. Cuban Americans are also considered native born Americans with Cuban parents or Cuban-born persons who were raised and educated in US. Cuban Americans form the third-largest Hispanic group in the United States and also the largest group of Hispanics of European ancestry as a percentage within the group in the US.
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Doug Kershaw
Doug Kershaw, born January 24, 1936, is an American fiddle player, singer and songwriter from Louisiana. He has been a major figure in the popularization of Cajun music, singing in both French and English.
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Dudley LeBlanc
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Edwin Carewe
Edwin Carewe (March 5, 1883 - January 22, 1940) was an American motion picture director, actor, producer, and screenwriter. He was born in Gainesville, Texas, as Jay Fox.
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English people
The English (from ) are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens.
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Filipino people
The Filipino people are an ethnic group primarily located in the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines. and about 11 million living outside the Philippines.
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French Canadians
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French people
French people can refer to:
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German people
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Glen Pitre
Glen Pitre (born 10 November 1955) is an American screenwriter and film director. He has written nine films since 1986. His debut film Belizaire the Cajun was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
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Greek people
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Herb Roe
Herb Roe (born 1974) is a painter of large scale outdoor murals and classical realist oil paintings. After attending the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio for a short time, he apprenticed to mural artist Robert Dafford. After 15 years with Dafford Murals, he left to pursue his own art career. He currently resides in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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Irish people
The Irish people (, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaedhil) are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies, see Prehistoric Ireland), with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded have legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic ancestry, and still serving as a term for the Irish race today. The main groups that interacted with the Irish in the Middle Ages include the Scottish people and the Vikings, with the Icelanders especially having some Irish descent. The Anglo-Norman invasion of the High Middle Ages, the English plantations and the subsequent English rule of the country introduced the Normans and Flemish into Ireland. Welsh, Picts, Bretons, and small parties of Gauls and even Anglo-Saxons are known in Ireland from much earlier times.
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Isleños
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Italian people
The Italian people () are a people that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence (though the principle of Jus Sanguinis is used extensively and arguably more favorably in the Italian nationality law), and are distinguished from people of Italian descent and, historically, from ethnic Italians living in the unredeemed territories adjacent to the Italian peninsula.
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Johnathon Schaech
Johnathon Schaech (pronounced Shek, born September 10, 1969) is an American actor, writer, and director.
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Joseph Broussard
Joseph Gaurhept Broussard (1702–1765), also known as Beausoleil, was a leader of the Acadian people in Acadia; later Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Broussard organized a resistance movement against the forced Expulsion of the Acadians. In 1765, After the loss of Acadia to the British, he eventually led the first group of Acadians to southern Louisiana in present-day United States.
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Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin (born '''Katherine O'Flaherty''' February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole background. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century.
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Les Blank
Les Blank (b. 27 November 1935, Tampa, Florida, United States) is an American documentary filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians.
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List of Cajuns
This is a list of notable Cajuns, often from the Acadiana or Greater New Orleans regions of French Louisiana, though not limited in geographic origin.
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Mary Alice Fontenot
Mary Alice Fontenot (April 16, 1910 - May 12, 2003), born in Eunice, Louisiana, was a noted author of regional children's books, best known for the Clovis Crawfish series published by Pelican Publishing, a collection of eighteen books featuring animals from the Louisiana bayou. The books are written in English and sprinkled with Cajun words, with an explanation of their prononucation and meaning (several titles are also published in complete French versions).
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Michael Doucet
Michael Doucet (b. Feb 14, 1951) is a Cajun fiddler, singer and songwriter who founded the Cajun band BeauSoleil from Lafayette, Louisiana.
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Robbie Robertson
Jaime Robert "Robbie" Robertson, (born Jaime Robert Klegerman, July 5, 1943) OC; is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. The Band has been inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. As a songwriter Robertson is responsible for such classics as "The Weight", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Up On Cripple Creek", "Broken Arrow" and "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", among many others.
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Robert Flaherty
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Spanish people
Spanish people or Spaniards constitute the European nation and ethnic group native of Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula, which forms the southwest of Europe. The Spanish nationality is in essence made up of regional nationalities, reflecting the complex history of Spain. Spain, in its current boundaries, was formed out of a number of predecessor kingdoms in the late 15th century as a result of the Reconquista and the War of the Castilian Succession.
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Acapulco, Mexico
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Alabama
Alabama () is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland waterways. The state ranks 23rd in population with almost 4.6 million residents in 2006.
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Arcadia
Arcadia, Arkadía () is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas.
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Canadian Maritimes
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Connecticut
Connecticut () (state code CT) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and New York to the west and south (because various islands of New York span Connecticut's entire coast).
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Florida
Florida () is a state of the United States. It is located in the Southeastern United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. Much of the state's land mass is a large peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Caribbean to the south. Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. state in 1845, after a three hundred year period of European colonization.
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Fort Beausejour
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France
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia () is a state located in the southeastern United States. Georgia was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 21, 1861, and was one of the original seven Confederate states. It was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15, 1870 and the only among the 13 that is explicitly named after a monarch; King George II of England.
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Haiti
Haiti (; French , ; Haitian Creole: Ayiti, ), officially the Republic of Haiti ( ;
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Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 110,257 at the 2000 census; a 2007 census estimate put the metropolitan area's population at 256,494. It is the fourth largest city in the state. It is the larger principal city of the Lafayette-Acadiana, LA Combined Statistical Area, which, in 2007, had an estimated total population of 538,470.
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Louisbourg
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Louisiana
Louisiana ( or ; , ; Louisiana Creole: Léta de la Lwizyàn) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties. The largest parish by population is Jefferson Parish, and the largest by land area is Cameron Parish.
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Maine
Maine () (French: ) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, New Hampshire to the southwest, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is the northern and easternmost portion of New England. It is known for its scenery—its jagged, mostly rocky coastline, its low, rolling mountains, and its heavily forested interior—as well as for its seafood cuisine, especially lobsters and clams.
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Manilamen
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Maritime provinces
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Maritimes
The Maritime provinces, also called the Maritimes or the Canadian Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
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Mississippi
Mississippi () is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, which namesake is from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi ("Great River"). The state is heavily forested outside of the Mississippi Delta area, and its catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States. The state symbol is the magnolia grandiflora tree.
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Mobile, Alabama
Mobile ( ) is the third most populous city in the Southern U.S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 198,915 during the 2000 census. It is the largest municipality on the Gulf Coast between New Orleans, Louisiana and St. Petersburg, Florida. Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), a region of 399,843 residents which is composed solely of Mobile County and is the second largest MSA in the state. Mobile is included in the Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope Combined Statistical Area with a total population of 540,258, the second largest combined statistical area in the state behind Birmingham.
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New Brunswick
New Brunswick (; ) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only constitutionally bilingual province (English and French) in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton, while Saint John is the most populous city. Statistics Canada estimates the provincial population in 2009 to be 750,457; a majority are English-speaking, but there is also a large Francophone minority (33%), chiefly of Acadian origin.
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New Orleans
New Orleans ( or , locally or ; ) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area, (New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner) has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population of 1,360,436 as of 2000.
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia (pronounced ; ) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest province in Canada with an area of . As of 2009, the population is 940,397, which makes Nova Scotia the second-most-densely populated province.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.
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Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; , Scottish Gaelic: ''Eilean a' Phrionnsa'') is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population (excluding the territories). The island has a few other names: "Garden of the Gulf" referring to the pastoral scenery and lush agricultural lands throughout the province; and "Birthplace of Confederation", referring to the Charlottetown Conference in 1864, although PEI did not join the confederation itself until 1873 when it became the seventh Canadian province.
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Quebec
Quebec or ( ) is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level.
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Texas
Texas () is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.
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the Dakotas
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Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia () is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" because it is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents. The geography and climate of the state are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna. The capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond; Virginia Beach is the most populous city and Fairfax County the most populous political subdivision. The state population is nearly eight million.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is considered part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Upper Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee. As of 2009 the state has an estimated 5.6 million residents. The state contains 72 counties.
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Cajun Music: The Savoy Family Band
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- Duration: 3:05
- Published: 21 Dec 2007
- Uploaded: 15 Dec 2011
- Author: ericbreaux
Cajun Musicians The Savoy Family Band...Cajun music performed by a family from Savoy, Louisiana... near Eunice. From Left to right is brothers Wilson & Joel Savoy, Dad Mark & mom Ann Savoy.
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beautiful cajun music in the 1981 film southern comfort.
This is a beautiful version of the song "PARLEZ NOUS A' BOIRES" by Dewey Balfa.Enjoy!Warning!!!The sequence contains images of violence against animals which may offend or shock some people.Also the particular sequence is taking place in a crucial part of the film so if you havent seen it yet,i advise you to skip and enjoy all of its 106 minutes.The means of this video is to pay tribute to the Balfa brothers and the Cajun music culture in general and last but not least to keep up the memory of some excellent movies which did nt make it to the big audience.Thank you for your posts.
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Cajun Crawler Exhibition 08
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- Duration: 5:40
- Published: 21 Dec 2008
- Uploaded: 15 Dec 2011
- Author: tcajunboy40
******Update: If you need to contact us regarding the walker, please contact us at thecajuncrawler@gmail.com****** The following video is a documentary of sorts. The video shows the Cajun Crawler. It was a project that was completed for the Fall 08 semester at the University of Louisiana. The scooter was inspired by Theo Jansen's leg mechanism. Throughout our research, we found no application where Jansen's leg mechanism was used as a weight-bearing application or vehicle. The legs are made of standard 5052 Aluminum. The joints all contain deep-groove ball bearings. If you have any questions regarding it, please feel free to contact us. Thank you. The following links are videos we found that inspired us on this project: *****Watch our Cajun Crawler 3D Model Video***** www.youtube.com "Theo Jansen - Kinetic Sculptor" www.youtube.com "Simulation CGI of Theo Jansen's Mechanism" www.youtube.com Team Members: Dustin Prejean Kurt Trahan Chris Menard Don Tamosaitis Kevin St. Aubin
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Cajun Sexy Cooking cookbook & video
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- Duration: 2:38
- Published: 03 Jan 2009
- Uploaded: 14 Dec 2011
- Author: danainlouisiana
www.CajunSexyCooking.com. Check on website for a 1 hour Video coming soon that you can download on your computer, or order the DVD by mail. Cookbook available now at Amazon.com. Within the pages of the new revised cookbook, you will read a comical Cajun Tale seasoned with photos of Cajun Girls On The Bayou, and tasty Cajun recipes. These Cajun Girls do not need a grocery store to get the main ingredients. They hunt it, trap it and fish it from the wild side of the Louisiana Swamp. So roll up your bluejeans and wade in for some fun on the bayou. Cajun Sexy Cooking has a facebook fan page. The new revised cookbook is available on Amazon.com Or website: www.cajunsexycooking.com
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New Orleans Cajun, Justin Wilson - Gumbo
New Orleans Cajun Justin Wilson tells us how to make Chicken and Andouille Gumbo.
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Cajun Fiddle
"Cajun Fiddle," as played by Miss Emily. Visit me at www.banjophil.com and learn how to get Emily's CD.
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Cajun OnStar
Two of my friends from The Specklers called OnStar while driving home from crabbing in Rockefeller Refuge. Nonk Chauz, Nonkchauz, Louisiana Culture, Louisiana, Louisiana Tourism, Louisiana Heritage, Kaplan, Grand Chenier, Booth's, Booth's Grocery, Abbeville, Erath, Church Point, Crowley,...
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Old Cajun English Accent
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- Duration: 1:34
- Published: 29 May 2007
- Uploaded: 15 Dec 2011
- Author: realcajunrecipes
This is what the old Cajuns sound like. Young Cajuns have a more Americanized accent but it's still thick nevertheless. This video is from Louisiana Story. The film stars Joseph Boudreaux and Lionel Le Blanc. It was filmed in and around Abbeville, Louisiana.
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Cajun Math
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- Duration: 1:40
- Published: 07 Nov 2006
- Uploaded: 07 Dec 2011
- Author: marquisdejolie
I used some of my ImageReady animated Photoshop art in this video to illustrate a joke about a Cajun outsmarting his potential employer with some country style math.
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JJ Cale - Cajun Moon
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- Duration: 2:57
- Published: 05 Jan 2007
- Uploaded: 14 Dec 2011
- Author: colfrbn2001
Awesome
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Louisiana Cajun French Accent
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- Duration: 1:55
- Published: 29 May 2007
- Uploaded: 14 Dec 2011
- Author: realcajunrecipes
Listen to the accent. This is from Louisiana Story (1948) with Joseph Boudreaux and Lionel LeBlanc.
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New Orleans Louisiana Creole Cajun Zydeco Music. Blues & Jazz of Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday NOLA Saints
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- Duration: 3:25
- Published: 13 Feb 2009
- Uploaded: 14 Dec 2011
- Author: clow2ground
www.coreybarksdale.com www.coreybarksdale.com New Orleans (pronounced /nuːˈɔliənz, nuːˈɔlənz/ locally and often pronounced /nuːɔrˈliːnz/ in most other US dialects French: La Nouvelle-Orléans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state. New Orleans is located in southeastern Louisiana, straddling the Mississippi River. It is coextensive with Orleans Parish, meaning that the boundaries of the city and the parish are the same. It is bounded by the parishes of St. Tammany (north), St. Bernard (east), Plaquemines (south), and Jefferson (south and west). Lake Pontchartrain, part of which is included in the city limits, lies to the north, and Lake Borgne lies to the east. The city is named after Philippe II, Duc d'Orléans, Regent of France, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is well known for its multicultural and multilingual heritage, cuisine, architecture, music (particularly as the birthplace of jazz), and its annual Mardi Gras and other celebrations and festivals. The city is often referred to as the "most unique" city in America La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded May 7, 1718, by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of France at the time; his title came from <b>...</b>
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Scooter Lee - Cajun Thang - Line Dance Instruction
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- Duration: 4:31
- Published: 06 Aug 2008
- Uploaded: 08 Dec 2011
- Author: D4DSeniorCharity
From Scooter Lee's "Starter Series Level 1" (DVD) Dance Name: Cajun Thang Choreographer: Rita & Jo Thompson Dance Type: 2-Step / Cajun Rhythm Song Used: Cajun Thang Dance Step: 4 Wall/32 Counts ____ For more information, or to purchase this video on DVD, visit us at: www.scooterlee.com The music from this video can be purchased on CD or download at iTunes Music Store: phobos.apple.com Amazon.com www.amazon.com ____ Presented by: Dancing For The Dream® www.dancingforthedream.com ____
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Cajun Music at Augusta 2007
Paul Daigle, Jesse Lege and friends play a dance at the 2007 Augusta Heritage Center's Cajun/Creole week in Elkins, WV. For more info on the summer programs check out www.augustaheritage.com. Thanks to everyone who's commented on this video! Please check out my new Cajun ones!
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Cajun Dance Party - 'Amylase'
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- Published: 30 Aug 2007
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- Author: pulsefilmsltd
Cajun Dance Party - 'Amylase' www.myspace.com Directed by DARYL www.pulsefilms.co.uk
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A charmingly argumentative elderly Cajun couple trade insults in perfect Cajun-accented English in a scene from the documentary AMERICAN TONGUES by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker.
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Cajun Gumbo
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You've asked for it so here it is... my recipe for Cajun Gumbo with Shrimp and Sausage.
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JJ Cale - Cajun Moon
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Cajun Moon by JJ Cale -- Discover music from around the world on Radio Bykov: www.facebook.com
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Cajun Country
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- Author: folkstreamer
Allen Lomax's wonderful documentary about the bayous of Louisiana which have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural gumbo.
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Jimmy Dean - The Cajun Queen
Jimmy Dean - The Cajun Queen. Sequel to Big John, released in 1962 (not on an album). This song is played from the Greatest Hits LP released in 1966.
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Cajun Talk: Best. Video. Ever.
This is Evan's grandfather. He plays the accordion, cooks, and apparently speaks Cajun better than me. This is the coolest thing that I've ever seen.
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"Cajun Interlude" Adrian Legg
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- Published: 29 Apr 2008
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- Author: GtrWorkShp
Fret melting technopicker Adrian Legg performs "Cajun Interlude." From the Vestapol DVD "Fingerstyle Guitar: New Dimensions & Explorations, Vol. One." More info at guitarvideos.com
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Cajun Smoked Turkey and Pork Roast by the BBQ Pit Boys
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- Published: 17 Nov 2009
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This Cajun style Turkey and Pork Loin holiday roast, smoke tender and moist, will give your guests a Holiday or Thanksgiving Turkey and Pork dinner they'll never forget. It's that good. Watch how easy it is to do with a few tips and techniques by the BBQ Pit Boys.
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![The Savoy LA Courir (run) in 2010. The Courir de Mardi Gras (French pronunciation: [kuʁiʁ də maʁdi ɡʁa]) is a traditional Mardi Gras event held in many Cajun communities of south Louisiana on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.](http://web.archive.org./web/20120115142829/http://cdn6.wn.com/pd/41/79/a3d14e2ee240ae2d949f348f13e5_medium.jpg "The Savoy LA Courir (run) in 2010. The Courir de Mardi Gras (French pronunciation: [kuʁiʁ də maʁdi ɡʁa]) is a traditional Mardi Gras event held in many Cajun communities of south Louisiana on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.")
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| group | Cajuns |
|---|---|
| pop | 2-5 million |
| regions | |
| region1 | Louisiana |
| pop1 | 432,549 |
| region2 | Texas |
| pop2 | 56,000 |
| region3 | Florida |
| pop3 | N/A |
| region4 | Mississippi |
| pop4 | N/A |
| region5 | Alabama |
| pop5 | N/A |
| region6 | Georgia |
| pop6 | N/A |
| region7 | Other U.S. States |
| pop7 | N/A |
| langs | Cajun French Cajun English, American English, Standard French, Acadian French |
| rels | Predominantly Roman Catholicism |
| related | French, Québécois, Métis, Acadians, Louisiana Creoles }} |
While Lower Louisiana had been settled by French colonists since the late 18th century, the Cajuns trace their roots to the influx of Acadian settlers after the Great Expulsion from their homeland during the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763). The Acadia region to which modern Cajuns trace their origin consisted largely of what are now Nova Scotia and the other Maritime provinces, plus parts of eastern Quebec and northern Maine. Since their establishment in Louisiana the Cajuns have developed their own dialect, Cajun French, and developed a vibrant culture including folkways, music, and cuisine.
Acadia
The origin of the designation Acadia is credited to the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, who on his sixteenth century map applied the ancient Greek name "Arcadia" to the entire Atlantic coast north of Virginia. "Arcadia" derives from the Arcadia district in Greece which since Classical antiquity had the extended meanings of "refuge" or "idyllic place". The Dictionary of Canadian Biography says: "In the 17th century Champlain fixed its present orthography, with the 'r' omitted, and (the Canadian historian) W.F.Ganong has shown its gradual progress northwards, in a succession of maps, to its resting place in the Atlantic Provinces."
Ethnic group of national origin
The Cajuns retain a unique dialect of the French language and numerous other cultural traits that distinguish them as an ethnic group. Cajuns were officially recognized by the U.S. government as a national ethnic group in 1980 per a discrimination lawsuit filed in federal district court. Presided over by Judge Edwin Hunter, the case, known as Roach v. Dresser Industries Valve and Instrument Division (494 F.Supp. 215, D.C. La., 1980), hinged on the issue of the Cajuns' ethnicity. Significantly, Judge Hunter held in his ruling that:
History of Acadian ancestors
The British Conquest of Acadia happened in 1710. Over the next forty-five years, the Acadians refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain. During this time period Acadians participated in various militia operations against the British and maintained vital supply lines to the French Fortress of Louisbourg and Fort Beausejour. During the French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years War and known by that name in Canada and Europe), the British sought to neutralize the Acadian military threat and to interrupt their vital supply lines to Louisbourg by deporting Acadians from Acadia. During 1755-1763 Acadia consisted of parts of present-day Canada: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The deportation of the Acadians has become known as the Great Upheaval or Le Grand Dérangement.
The Acadians' migration from Canada was spurred by the Treaty of Paris (1763) which ended the war. The treaty terms provided 18 months for unrestrained emigration. Many Acadians moved to the region of the Atakapa in present-day Louisiana, often travelling via the French Colony of Saint-Domingue (present day Haiti). Joseph Broussard led the first group of 200 Acadians to arrive in Louisiana on February 27, 1765 aboard the Santo Domingo. On April 8, 1765, he was appointed militia captain and commander of the "Acadians of the Atakapas" region in St. Martinville. Some of the settlers wrote to their family scattered around the Atlantic to encourage them to join them at New Orleans. For example, Jean-Baptiste Semer, wrote to his father in France:
Only after many of the Cajuns had moved to Louisiana, seeking to live under a French government, did they discover France had secretly ceded Louisiana to Spain in the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762). The formal announcement of the transfer was made in December 1764. The Cajuns took part in the Rebellion of 1768 in an attempt to prevent the transfer. The Spanish formally asserted control in 1769.
The Acadians were scattered throughout the eastern seaboard. Families were split and put on ships with different destinations. Many ended up west of the Mississippi River in what was then French-colonized Louisiana, including territory as far north as Dakota territory. France had ceded the colony to Spain in 1762, prior to their defeat by Britain and two years before the first Acadians began settling in Louisiana. The interim French officials provided land and supplies to the new settlers. The Spanish governor, Bernardo de Gálvez, later proved to be hospitable, permitting the Acadians to continue to speak their language, practice their native religion, Roman Catholicism—which was also the official religion of Spain—and otherwise pursue their livelihoods with minimal interference. Some families and individuals did travel north through the Louisiana territory to set up homes as far north as Wisconsin. Cajuns fought in the American Revolution. Although they fought for Spanish General Galvez, their contribution to the winning of the war has been recognized.
"Galvez leaves New Orleans with an army of Spanish regulars and the Louisiana militia made up of 600 Cajun volunteers and captures the British strongholds of Fort Bute at Bayou Manchac, across from the Acadian settlement at St. Gabriel. And on September 21, they attack and capture Baton Rouge."
A review of participating soldiers shows many common Cajun names among those who fought in the battles of Baton Rouge and West Florida. The Galvez Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was formed in memory of those soldiers. The Acadians' joining the fight against the British was partially a reaction to the British having evicted them from Acadia.
The Spanish colonial government settled the earliest group of Acadian exiles west of New Orleans, in what is now south-central Louisiana—an area known at the time as Attakapas, and later the center of the Acadiana region. As Brasseaux wrote, "The oldest of the pioneer communities . . . Fausse Point, was established near present-day Loreauville by late June, 1765." The Acadians shared the swamps, bayous and prairies with the Attakapa and Chitimacha Native American tribes.
After the end of the American Revolutionary War, about 1,500 more Acadians arrived in New Orleans. About 3,000 Acadians had been deported to France during the Great Upheaval. In 1785 about 1,500 were authorized to emigrate to Louisiana, often to be reunited with their families, or because they could not settle in France. Living in a relatively isolated region until the early 1900s, Cajuns today are largely assimilated into the mainstream society and culture. Some Cajuns live in communities outside of Louisiana. Also, some people identify themselves as Cajun culturally despite lacking Acadian ancestry.
Ethnic mixing and alternate origins
Not all Cajuns descend solely from Acadian exiles who settled in south Louisiana in the eighteenth century, as many have intermarried with other groups. Their members now include people with ancestry of British, Spanish, German, Italian, Native American, Métis and French Creole settlers. Historian Carl A. Brasseaux asserted that it was this process of intermarriage that created the Cajuns in the first place.Non-Acadian French Creoles in rural areas were absorbed into Cajun communities. Some Cajun parishes, such as Evangeline and Avoyelles, possess relatively few inhabitants of Acadian origin. Their populations descend in many cases from settlers who migrated to the region from Quebec, Mobile, or directly from France. Theirs is regarded as the purest dialect of French spoken within Acadiana. Regardless, it is generally acknowledged that Acadian influences have prevailed in most sections of south Louisiana.
Many Cajuns also have ancestors who were not French. Many of the original settlers in French Acadia were English, for example the Melansons (originally Mallinson). Irish, German, Greek, Spanish Canary Islanders, and Italian colonists began to settle in Louisiana before and after the Louisiana Purchase, particularly on the German Coast along the Mississippi River north of New Orleans. People of Latin American origin, a number of early Filipino settlers (notably in Saint Malo, Louisiana), known as "Manilamen," from the annual cross-Pacific Galleon or Manila Galleon trade with neighboring Acapulco, Mexico, descendants of African American slaves, and some Cuban Americans have also settled along the Gulf Coast and, in some cases, intermarried into Cajun families. Anglo-American settlers in the region often were assimilated into Cajun communities, especially those who arrived before the English language became predominant in southern Louisiana.
One obvious result of this cultural mixture is the variety of surnames that are common among the Cajun population. Surnames of the original Acadian settlers (which are documented) have been augmented by French and non-French family names that have become part of Cajun communities. The spelling of many family names has changed over time. (See, for example, Eaux).
Modern preservation and renewed connections
During the early part of the 20th century, attempts were made to suppress Cajun culture by measures such as forbidding the use of the Cajun French language in schools. After the Compulsory Education Act forced Cajun children to attend formal schools, American teachers threatened, punished, and sometimes beat their Cajun students in an attempt to force them to use English (a language many of them had not been exposed to before). During World War II, Cajuns often served as French interpreters for American forces in France; this helped to overcome prejudice.In 1968 the organization of Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL) was founded to preserve the French language in Louisiana. Besides advocating for their legal rights, Cajuns also recovered for themselves a sense of ethnic pride and appreciation for their ancestry. Since the mid-1950s, relations between the Cajuns of the U.S. Gulf Coast and Acadians in the Maritimes and New England have been renewed, forming an Acadian identity common to Louisiana, New England, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
State Senator Dudley LeBlanc ("Coozan Dud", a Cajun slang nickname for "Cousin Dudley") took a group of Cajuns to Nova Scotia in 1955 for the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the expulsion. The Congrès Mondial Acadien, a large gathering of Acadians and Cajuns held every five years since 1994, is another example of continued unity.
Sociologists Jacques Henry and Carl L. Bankston III have maintained that the preservation of Cajun ethnic identity is a result of the social class of Cajuns. During the eighteenth and nineteenth century, "Cajuns" came to be identified as the French-speaking rural people of Southwestern Louisiana. Over the course of the twentieth century, the descendants of these rural people became the working class of their region. This change in the social and economic circumstances of families in Southwestern Louisiana created nostalgia for an idealized version of the past. Henry and Bankston point out that "Cajun", which was formerly considered an insulting term, became a term of pride among Louisianans by the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Culture
Geography
Geography had a strong correlation to Cajun lifestyles. Most Cajuns resided in Acadiana, where their descendants are still predominant. Cajun populations today are found also in the area southwest of New Orleans and scattered in areas adjacent to the French Louisiana region, such as to the north in Alexandria, Louisiana. Over the years, many Cajuns and Creoles also migrated to the Beaumont and Port Arthur area of Southeast Texas, in especially large numbers as they followed oil-related jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, when oil companies moved jobs from Louisiana to Texas. However, the city of Lafayette is referred to as "The Heart of Acadiana" because of its location, and it is a major center of Cajun-Creole culture.
Music
Cajun music is evolved from its roots in the music of the French-speaking Catholics of Canada. In earlier years the fiddle was the predominant instrument, but gradually the accordion has come to share the limelight. Cajun music gained national attention in 2007, when the Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album category was created.
Cuisine
Outside Louisiana, and even within, some food writers wish to distinguish between Cajun and Louisiana Creole cuisine, maintaining that Creole dishes tend to be more sophisticated and continental while Cajun food is rural, more seasoned, sometimes spicy, and tends to be heartier. This distinction is based mostly on encounters with the cuisines as encountered in eateries in New Orleans. Outside the city, Cajuns and Creoles often intermingle socially and culturally, and chances are that the cooking of Cajuns and Creoles living in Lawtell for example, have more in common with each other than the Creole dishes of a Lawtell resident and one from Isle Brevelle. Both cuisines tend to focus on local ingredients like locally available wild game (e.g., duck, rabbit), vegetables (e.g., okra, mirlitons), and grain (e.g., rice), which is where they remain distinctive, since many of these ingredients have never truly entered American mainstream cuisine and thus were available to displace local traditions.Since many Cajuns and Creoles were farmers and not especially wealthy, they were known for not wasting any part of a butchered animal. Cracklins are a popular snack made by frying pork skins or fat and boudin is created from the ground-up leftover parts of a hog after the best meat is taken, which is mixed with cooked rice. It is usually formed into a sausage, but can also be rolled in a ball and deep-fried called a boudin ball.
Language
Cajun French is a variety or dialect of the French language spoken primarily in the Acadiana region of Louisiana. At one time there were as many as seven dialects spread across the Cajun Heartland.Recent documentation has been made of Cajun English, a French-influenced dialect of English spoken by Cajuns, either as a second language, in the case of the older members of the community, or as a first language by younger Cajuns.
Religious traditions
Cajuns are predominantly Roman Catholic. However, Protestant and Evangelical Christian denominations have made inroads among Cajuns, but not without controversy — many Cajuns will shun family members if they convert to any form of Protestantism because of the extreme persecution the Cajuns were subjected to by Protestants during the Great Expulsion of 1755, and throughout their history for maintaining their Catholicism.The 1992 cookbook, Who's Your Mama, Are You Catholic and Can You Make a Roux by Cajun Chef Marcelle Bienvenue outlines long-standing beliefs that Cajun identity was rooted in community, cuisine, and very specifically, devout Roman Catholicism. Traditional Catholic religious observances such as Mardi Gras, Lent, and Holy Week are integral to many Cajun communities.
Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras, (French for "Fat Tuesday", also known as Shrove Tuesday), is the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, a 40 day period of fasting and reflection in preparation for Easter Sunday. Mardi Gras was historically a time to use up the foods that were not to be used during Lent, including fat, eggs, and meat.Mardi Gras celebrations in rural Acadiana are distinct from the more widely known celebrations in New Orleans and other metropolitan areas. A distinct feature of the Cajun celebration centers on the Courir de Mardi Gras (translated: fat tuesday run). A group of people, usually on horseback and wearing capuchons (a cone-shaped ceremonial hat) and traditional costumes, will approach a farmhouse and ask for something for the community gumbo pot. Often, the farmer or his wife will allow the riders to have a chicken, if they can catch it. The group then puts on a show, comically attempting to catch the chicken set out in a large open area. Songs are sung, jokes are told, and skits are acted out. When the chicken is caught, it is added to the pot at the end of the day. The courir held in the small town of Mamou has become well known. This tradition has much in common with the observance of La Chandeleur, or Candlemas (February 2), by Acadians in Nova Scotia.
Easter
On Pâques (French for Easter), a game called pâquer, or pâque-pâque was played. Contestants selected hard-boiled eggs, paired off, and tapped the eggs together — the player whose egg did not crack was declared the winner. This is an old European tradition that has survived in Acadia until today. Today Easter is still celebrated by Cajuns with the traditional game of 'paque', but is now also celebrated in the same fashion as Christians throughout the United States with candy-filled baskets, "Easter bunny" stories, dyed eggs, and Easter Egg hunts.
Folk beliefs
One folk custom is belief in a traiteur, or Cajun healer, whose primary method of treatment involves the laying on of hands and of prayers. An important part of Cajun folk religion, the traiteur is a faith healer who combines Catholic prayer and medicinal remedies to treat a variety of ailments, including earaches, toothaches, warts, tumors, angina, and bleeding. Another is in the Rougarou, a version of a Loup Garou (French for werewolf), that will hunt down and kill Catholics that do not follow the rules of Lent. In some Cajun communities the Loup Garou of legend have taken on an almost protective role. Children are warned that Loup Garou can read souls, and that they only hunt and kill evil men and women and misbehaved horses.
Celebrations and gatherings
Cajuns, along with other Cajun Country residents, have a reputation for a joie de vivre (French for "joy of living"), in which hard work is appreciated as much as "passing a good time."
Community gatherings
In the culture, a coup de main (French for "to give a hand") is an occasion when the community gathers in order to assist one of their members with time-consuming or arduous tasks. Examples might include a barn raising, harvests, or assistance for the elderly or sick.
Festivals
Laissez les bons temps rouler is a more than a cliché phrase of the local culture, which means "let the good times roll", as nearly every village, town and city of any size has a yearly festival, celebrating an important part of the local culture and economy. The majority of Cajun festivals include a fais do-do ("go to sleep" in French, originating from encouraging children to fall asleep in the rafters of the dance hall as the parents danced late into the night) or street dance, usually to a live local band. Crowds at these festivals can range from a few hundred to more than 100,000.
Other festivals outside of Louisiana
Tributes
Documentary films
Film
Literature
Songs
See also
References
Sources
Footnotes
External links
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| name | Justin Wilson |
|---|---|
| nationality | British | |
| birth date | July 31, 1978 |
| birth place | Sheffield (England) |
| related to | Stefan Wilson (brother) |
| current series | IZOD IndyCar Series |
| first year | 2008 |
| current team | Dreyer & Reinbold Racing |
| car number | 22 |
| former teams | Dale Coyne RacingNewman/Haas/Lanigan Racing |
| starts | 50 |
| wins | 2 |
| poles | 2 |
| fastest laps | 2 |
| best finish | 10th |
| year | 2009 }} |
| last series | Champ Car World Series |
|---|---|
| years active | 2004–2007 |
| teams | Conquest RacingRuSPORTRSPORTS |
| starts | 54 |
| wins | 4 |
| podium finishes | 15 |
| poles | 6 |
| best finish | 2nd |
| year | 2006, 2007 |
| awards | Greg Moore Legacy Award |
| award years | 2006, 2007 }} |
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Justin Boyd Wilson (born 31 July 1978 in Sheffield) is a British racing driver from England who currently competes in the IndyCar Series for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing. He competed in the Champ Car series from 2004–07, scoring four wins. He competed in Formula One in the 2003 season with Minardi and Jaguar and was the winner of the 2001 International Formula 3000 championship.
Early career (to 2002)
Brought up in the tiny hamlet of Woodall, near Harthill, South Yorkshire, Wilson began racing karts in 1987. During the early 1990s, he spent several years in Formula Vauxhall with Paul Stewart Racing before earning international attention when he won the inaugural Formula Palmer Audi championship with nine race wins. In 1998, he was a finalist in the McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award. A year later, he graduated to the FIA International Formula 3000 championship and won the championship in 2001, setting a record winning margin in the process.Despite his success, his height proved a liability, and prevented him from securing a Formula One drive for . He found a drive in the Telefonica World Series by Nissan, where he continued his winning ways with race victories at Interlagos and Valencia.
Wilson also tested for the Minardi Formula One team, but although regular driver Alex Yoong was replaced for two rounds, Wilson was unable to race the car due to his height.
Formula One career (2003)
For , Minardi designed the car around Wilson's 6'4" (1.93m) frame and signed him up to race. The car was off the pace but Wilson performed favourably against his more experienced teammate, Jos Verstappen. He switched to Jaguar Racing to replace Antônio Pizzonia for the last five races of the season, and scored his first championship point at the United States Grand Prix. However, Wilson did not retain his position with Jaguar Racing, because Ford were not prepared to pour unlimited funds into Formula One and advised the team that they would have to take on a paying driver. Christian Klien, who was funded by Austrian drink company Red Bull, and who had tested for Jaguar in November 2003, was able to bring sponsorship and thus secure a driver's seat for .
Champ Car career (2004 to 2007)
At the beginning of 2004, Wilson joined the Champ Car World Series with Mi-Jack Conquest Racing. He qualified as high as second in his rookie season and finished the year in 11th place in the standings. In addition to Champ Cars, Wilson also raced at the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, sharing the Racing for Holland Dome-Judd S101 with Tom Coronel and Ralph Firman, personally setting the fifth fastest lap.In 2005, Wilson moved to the RuSPORT team to partner A. J. Allmendinger. He won his first Champ Car race at Toronto. Continuing with his success in Canada, Wilson finished third at Montreal, then rounded off the year with a victory from pole in the final race of the season in Mexico City circuit. Wilson finished the season in third place in the drivers standings behind series champion Sébastien Bourdais and second-placed Oriol Servia.
In 2006, Wilson took part in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona event for the first time in his career, racing for the Michael Shank Racing team in a Lexus powered Riley & Scott Daytona Prototype chassis. Teaming up with Champ Car teammate A. J. Allmendinger, Oswaldo Negri and Mark Patterson, the car made it to the chequered flag in second place.
Wilson stayed with RuSPORT for the 2006 season, and finished second in the series. On 19 October 2006, in the Friday qualifying for the Surfers Paradise race, Wilson hit a small barrier of tyres in a chicane. When the front wheels lurched sideways after the impact, the steering wheel spun sharply in Wilson's hands and broke a small bone in his right wrist.
For 2007, Wilson was signed on a multi-year contract with RSPORTS, a merger of his former team and Rocketsports. He finished second in the championship. Preceding the European rounds of the championship (Zolder, Belgium and Assen, Holland), RSPORTS announced their separation back into RuSport and Rocketsports.
IndyCar career (2008–present)
Wilson signed for reigning ChampCar champions Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing for 2008, replacing Sébastien Bourdais. The ChampCar series merged with the Indy Racing League for 2008, meaning that Wilson and team-mate Graham Rahal competed in the IndyCar Series. Wilson qualified on pole for the Long Beach Grand Prix and second at Edmonton. Wilson won his first race for NHLR and took his maiden IndyCar Series win at the Detroit Indy Grand Prix in late August, moving up from fourth at the start to second through pitstops before gaining the lead when Hélio Castroneves was penalised for blocking. However, like many drivers switching from the road and street course based Champ Car series, he was not yet competitive in the series' oval races.At the end of the points scoring races of the season Justin placed 11th in the overall standings and finished second in the Bombardier Rookie of the Year standings. He missed out by just four points from Hideki Mutoh of the long established IndyCar Series Andretti Green Racing team, he was the best placed of the so-called transition drivers without any significant oval racing history. Oriol Servia finished higher but had enough oval racing experience in both the IRL and Champ Car to not be deemed a rookie.
In 2008 Wilson again drove in the Rolex Daytona 24 Hours race for Michael Shank Racing, this time in a Ford powered Riley prototype chassis. He shared the number 60 car with Oswaldo Negri, Mark Patterson and Graham Rahal, they finished the race in sixth position and were the highest placed Ford powered car.
Wilson agreed to drive for Dale Coyne Racing in 2009, after losing his ride at Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing. Wilson qualified second for the 2009 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg to start the season, which is Coyne's best qualifying result in the team's 23-year history. He finished the race in third position, set the fastest lap of the race and led the most laps. Wilson was leading before a late-race caution came out; eventual race winner Ryan Briscoe passed him on the restart.
On 5 July 2009 Justin Wilson scored his second IndyCar Series win, and Dale Coyne's first victory as an owner in his team's 23-year history. At the 2009 Camping World Grand Prix at The Glen, Wilson again qualified second, only behind Briscoe, who set a new track record twice over the course of qualifying. Because Dario Franchitti crashed early in the final round of qualifying, Wilson was able to save a set of Firestone's alternate-compound tires, which are designed to make the car faster, but also wear out more quickly. Wilson was the fastest driver in final practice. In the race itself, Wilson attempted to pass Briscoe on the second lap, but was unsuccessful; two laps later, he made the pass stick, leading the first of 49 laps he spent in front. With six laps remaining in the 60-lap event, a full-course caution came out, resulting in the same setup as St. Petersburg: Wilson leading late, with Briscoe right behind him. This time, however, Wilson retained the lead, stretching it to 4.9 seconds by the end of the race.
Wilson took part in the 2010 running of the Daytona 24 Hours race. This time he was racing for Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates in the Telmex/Target sponsored 01 Riley BMW prototype. Wilson shared the car with Max Papis, Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, the car finished the race on the lead lap in second place. During the race in an interview with Speed TV Wilson confirmed he was still working on a drive in the 2010 IRL season, saying he hoped to have a deal arranged "in the next few weeks".
On 2 February 2010 it was announced that Wilson would be joining Dreyer & Reinbold Racing for the 2010 IndyCar season, he is to drive the #22 Z-Line Designs sponsored car and will be partnered throughout the season by Mike Conway. For the opening race in Brazil they were joined by Ana Beatriz. For the 94th running of the Indianapolis 500 the team was expanded to run four cars for Tomas Scheckter and Ana Beatriz. Wilson begun the season well in the road and street courses, often running near the front. He ran in the lead towards the end of the Indy 500 setting the fastest out lap of all the drivers during the race. After Conway was sidelined for an accident in the closing stages of the Indy 500, Wilson was partnered by Tomas Scheckter, Graham Rahal and Paul Tracy. It was announced that he will be joined by J. R. Hildebrand who will make his Indycar debut at Mid-Ohio. The Toronto event was his breakthrough event of the season, after being in the top two in each of the three practice sessions, he dominated qualifying. He made it through to the top six shootout without using a set of the faster red walled tyres and only using a single set in the top twelve session. In the final top six session for pole he only used a single set of red walled tyres while others took two attempts to beat his early benchmark.
On 11 November 2010 an announcement was made confirming Wilson will remain with Dreyer & Reinbold for a second year.
Investment scheme
Wilson struggled to raise the money needed to get a Formula One seat with the Minardi team in , so his management team came up with the idea of selling shares in him to the public to raise the £1.2 million needed. The scheme was supported by television commentator Murray Walker amongst others and ended up being oversubscribed. There are nearly 900 shareholders, each of whom invested a minimum of £500. Justin is presently managed by former Grand Prix driver Jonathan Palmer.
Personal life
Wilson married girlfriend Julia in Sheffield, England on 29 December 2006. The couple reside in Northampton, England and near Denver, Colorado.They welcomed their first child, a daughter named Jane Louise Wilson into the world on Saturday, 12 April 2008 at 11:27 p.m. MT, she was born at the Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, Colorado. Second daughter Jessica Lynne Wilson was born on 12 January 2010.
Wilson's younger brother, Stefan, is also a racing driver. In 2009, Stefan joined the Indy Lights Series for its street and road course events, the support series to Indy Cars.
Motorsports career results
Complete International Formula 3000 results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)| ! Year | ! Entrant | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! DC | ! Points |
| ! Team Astromega | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ! 20th | ! 2 | |||
| ! Nordic Racing | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | ! 5th | ! 16 | |||
| Nordic Racing>Coca-Cola Nordic Racing | bgcolor="#FBFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#FBFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#FBFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" |
Complete American Le Mans Series Results
| ! Year | ! Entrant | ! Class | ! Chassis | ! Engine | ! Tyres | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! Rank | ! Points |
| Ascari Cars>Team Ascari | LMP900 | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | ! 39th | ! 19 | |||||||||||||
| ! Taurus Racing | LMP1 | Lola B2K/10 | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | ! 27th | ! 8 |
Complete Formula One results
(key)| ! Year | ! Entrant | ! Chassis | ! Engine | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! 15 | ! 16 | ! WDC | List of Formula One World Championship points scoring systems>Points |
| rowspan="2" | ! European Aviation Air Charter | Minardi PS03>PS03 | Cosworth V10 engine>V10 | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | 20th | 1 | |||||
| ! Jaguar Racing | ! Jaguar Racing | V10 engine>V10 | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" |
American open–wheel racing results
(key)Champ Car
| ! Year | ! Team | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! Rank | ! Points |
| ! Conquest Racing | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | |||
| ! RuSPORT | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | ! | |||
| ! RuSPORT | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | |||
| ! RSPORTS | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" |
IndyCar Series
| Year | ! Team | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! 15 | ! 16 | ! 17 | ! 18 | ! 19 | ! Rank | ! Points | |
| 2008 IndyCar Series season | 2008 | Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing>N/H/L Racing | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | |||
| ! Dale Coyne Racing | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | ||||||
| ! Dreyer & Reinbold Racing | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | ||||||
| ! Dreyer & Reinbold Racing | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFEAFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFFFFF" |
| ! Years | ! Teams | ! Races | ! Poles | ! Wins | ! Podiums(Non-win) | ! Top 10s(Non-podium) | ! Indianapolis 500Wins | ! Championships |
| 4 | 3 | 62 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
Indianapolis 500
| ! Year | ! Chassis | ! Engine | ! Start | ! Finish | ! Team | ! Note |
| Dallara | Honda | Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing | T1 Accident | |||
| Dallara | Honda | Dale Coyne Racing | T1 Accident | |||
| Dallara | Honda | Dreyer & Reinbold Racing | ||||
| Dallara | Honda | Dreyer & Reinbold Racing |
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| name | JJ Cale |
|---|---|
| landscape | yes |
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | John Weldon Cale |
| birth date | December 05, 1938 |
| birth place | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| instrument | Guitar, vocals, piano, keyboards, bass, drums |
| genre | Americana, Cajun, blues, swamp rock, Red Dirt, Tulsa Sound |
| occupation | Musician, songwriter |
| years active | 1958–present |
| label | Shelter, Mercury, Polygram, Virgin, Rounder, Silvertone |
| associated acts | Leathercoated Minds, Eric Clapton, Delaney & Bonnie, Leon Russell |
| website | }} |
JJ Cale (also J.J. Cale), born John Weldon Cale on December 5, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and musician. Cale is one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz influences. Cale's personal style has often been described as "laid back".
His only U.S. hit single, Crazy Mama, peaked at #22 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1972. During the 2006 documentary film To Tulsa and Back Cale recounts the story of being offered the opportunity to appear on Dick Clark's American Bandstand to promote the song, which would have moved the song higher on the charts. Cale declined when told he could not bring his band to the taping and would be required to lip-sync the words to the song.
His songs have been performed by a number of other musicians including "After Midnight" and "Cocaine" by Eric Clapton, "Magnolia" by Jai, "Bringing It Back" by Kansas, "Call Me the Breeze" and "I Got the Same Old Blues" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Travelin' Light" and "Ride Me High" by Widespread Panic.
Biography
Cale was born on December 5, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Some sources incorrectly give his real name as "Jean-Jacques Cale". A Sunset Strip nightclub owner employing Cale in the mid-1960s came up with the "JJ" moniker to avoid confusion with the Velvet Underground's John Cale. In the 2006 documentary, To Tulsa and Back: On Tour with J.J. Cale, Rocky Frisco tells the same version of the story mentioning the other John Cale but without further detail..
Discography
Singles
1958 Shock Hop/Sneaky [45 - as Johnny Cale] 1960 Troubles, Troubles/Purple Onion [45 - as Johnny Cale Quintet] 1961 Ain't That Lovin You Baby/She's My Desire [45 - as Johnny Cale Quintet]
Albums
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| name | Cajun Dance Party |
|---|---|
| background | group_or_band |
| genre | Indie |
| years active | 2005–2010 |
| label | WayOutWest, XL Recordings |
| website | |
| current members | Robbie Stern Vicky Freund Will Vignoles |
| past members | Daniel Blumberg Max Bloom Alex Meakin |
| associated acts | Yuck }} |
Cajun Dance Party were a five-piece band based in London, England. They originally consisted of Robbie Stern, Max Bloom, Daniel Blumberg, Will Vignoles, and Vicky Freund. The band has split after Blumberg and Bloom left the band in 2009 to form the band Yuck, while other members of the band went to university. Freund now performs with the band The Mourning Laughter.
Biography
The band came into being when guitarist Robbie Stern invited Daniel Blumberg (vocals), Max Bloom (bass guitar), William Vignoles (drums) and Vicky Freund (keys) to start playing together, originally to participate in their school 'battle of the bands' in 2005. In their first few band practices, the 15 year olds began working on their first four songs, 'The Next Untouchable', 'Colourful Life', 'Amylase' and 'Buttercups', which were recorded as demos and submitted to their myspace site shortly after.The band played their first few shows at the West London all ages club night 'Way Out West', performing in the bar beneath Brentford FC football stadium. Way Out West was well known for putting on many up and coming bands such as Jamie T, Late of the Pier, Video Nasties, and Laura Marling. The organizer of the event, Keith Anderson, began to manage the band shortly after. Their first single, 'The Next Untouchable', was released on Anderson's record label as a limited edition 7" single, with 500 copies being put into production.
Cajun Dance Party's debut album was entitled The Colourful Life, and was released in April 2008. The band recorded the album sessions with Bernard Butler at the recording studio, West Heath Yard, owned by Edwyn Collins. 'West Heath Yard' was also a music industry spoof which aired for a short while on channel 4 in 1999, The album consisted of nine tracks, with singles from the album including "Colourful Life", "The Race", and "Amylase". The album was given 4/5 in the Guardian.
The band have made many festival appearances in the UK and abroad, performing at such festivals as Reading and Leeds, Glastonbury Festival, Oxegen, T in the Park, Underage Festival, Camden Crawl, Summersonic Festival in Japan and Les Inrocks tour in France.
Discography
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Singles
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| name | Jimmy Dean |
|---|---|
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | Jimmy Ray Dean |
| born | August 10, 1928Plainview, Texas, United States |
| died | June 13, 2010Varina, Virginia, United States |
| instrument | Vocals, guitar |
| genre | Country |
| occupation | Singer, actor, businessman |
| years active | 1953–2010 |
| label | Columbia RecordsRCA Records |
| associated acts | Roy Clark, Patsy Cline, Charlie Rich |
| website | Dean's Website }} |
Jimmy Ray Dean (August 10, 1928 – June 13, 2010) was an American country music singer, television host, actor and businessman. Although he may be best known today as the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand, he became a national television personality starting in 1957, rising to fame for his 1961 country crossover hit "Big Bad John". His acting career included a supporting role as Willard Whyte in the 1971 James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever. He lived near Richmond, Virginia and was nominated for the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010, although he was formally inducted posthumously.
Biography
Early life
Dean was born in Plainview, Texas, in 1928, the son of George Otto Dean and his second wife Ruth (née Taylor) Dean. He attributed his interest in music to the Seth Ward Baptist Church. He dropped out of high school and became a professional entertainer after a stint in the U.S. Air Force in the late 1940s.
Entertainment career
Dean had his first hit, "Bummin' Around", in 1953 on the 4 Star label, but had no other hits for the rest of the decade. He signed with Columbia Records in 1957.In 1954, Dean hosted the popular Washington D.C. radio program Town and Country Time on WARL-AM, and with his Texas Wildcats became popular in the Mid-Atlantic region. Patsy Cline and Roy Clark got their starts on the show. Although Cline and Dean became good friends; Clark, Dean's lead guitarist, was eventually fired by the singer for what was explained as his chronic tardiness. Dean replaced Clark with Billy Grammer. In 1955, Town and Country Time moved to WMAL-TV on weekday afternoons. Dean and the Texas Wildcats also appeared during 1957 on Town and Country Jamboree on WMAL-TV on Saturdays from 10:30 p.m.–1:30 a.m. ET, which was also carried by TV stations in Maryland and Virginia on a regional network.
Also during 1957, Dean hosted Country Style on WTOP-TV on weekday mornings. CBS picked up the show nationally from Washington for eight months in 1957 under the name, The Morning Show. Then from September 14, 1958–June 1959, CBS carried The Jimmy Dean Show on weekday and Saturday afternoons.
Dean became best known for his 1961 recitation song about a heroic miner, "Big Bad John". Recorded in Nashville, the record went to number one on the Billboard pop chart and inspired many imitations and parodies. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The track peaked at No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart. The song won Dean the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. He had several more Top 40 songs including a Top 10 in 1962 with "PT-109", a song in honor of John F. Kennedy's bravery in World War II.
In the early 1960s, he hosted the Tonight Show on occasion and one night introduced Roy Clark, with whom he had remained friendly. In the mid-60s, Dean helped bring country music into the mainstream with his 1963–66 ABC-TV variety series, The Jimmy Dean Show. It presented country music entertainers including Roger Miller, George Jones, Charlie Rich, Buck Owens and some, like Joe Maphis, who seldom received network exposure. The program also featured comedy and a variety of popular music artists, and Dean's sketches with one of Jim Henson's Muppets, Rowlf the Dog.
Dean appeared on several TV talk shows and game shows in the 1960s and performed on variety programs including The Ed Sullivan Show, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and The Hollywood Palace.
Dean turned to acting after his TV show ended in 1966. His best-known role was as reclusive Las Vegas billionaire Willard Whyte in the 1971 James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever. He also appeared in fourteen episodes of Daniel Boone (1967–70) in three different roles (one episode as "Delo Jones", two as "Jeremiah" and eleven as "Josh Clements") and as Charlie Rowlands in two Fantasy Island episodes (1981–82), as well as on other TV shows including a semi-regular role as Charlie Bullets on J.J. Starbuck starring Dale Robertson (1987–88).
Dean's singing career remained strong into the mid-1960s; in 1965, he achieved a second number one country hit with the ballad "The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev'ry Night)", and he had a Top 40 hit that year with "Harvest Of Sunshine". In 1966, Dean signed with RCA Records and immediately had a Top 10 hit with "Stand Beside Me". His other major hits during this time included "Sweet Misery" (1967) and "A Thing Called Love" (1968). He continued charting into the early 1970s with his major hits including a duet with Dottie West, "Slowly" (1971); and a solo hit with "The One You Say Good Morning To" (1972).
In 1976, Dean achieved a million-seller with a recitation song as a tribute to his mother and mothers everywhere called "I.O.U." The song was released a few weeks before Mother's Day and quickly became a Top 10 country hit, his first one in a decade, and a Top 40 pop hit, his first in 14 years. The song was re-released in 1977, 1983 and 1984, but with minor success each time.
Business career
In 1969, he founded the Jimmy Dean Sausage Company with his brother Don. The company did well, in part because of Dean's own extemporized, humor-themed commercials.Its success led to its acquisition in 1984 by Consolidated Foods, later renamed the Sara Lee Corporation. Dean remained involved in running the company, but the new corporate parent eventually began phasing him out of any management duties, a period that took a toll on his health. In January 2004, Dean said that Sara Lee had dropped him as the spokesman for the sausage brand, saying that he was too old.
Later years and death
A Virginia resident since 1990, Dean was inducted into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997. Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore appointed Dean to the Virginia Board of Game and Inland Fisheries, which oversees the state's wildlife efforts and boating laws.In the fall of 2004, he released his blunt, straight-talking autobiography 30 Years of Sausage, 50 Years of Ham. Dean lived in semi-retirement with second wife, Donna Meade Dean, a singer, songwriter, and recording artist he married in 1991, who helped him write his book. The couple lived on their property at Chaffin's Bluff overlooking the James River in Henrico County, on the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia. On April 20, 2009, the main house was largely gutted by a fire, although the Deans escaped injury. The Deans rebuilt their home on the same foundation and returned early in 2010.
Dean, who dropped out of high school in 1946 to work to help his mother, announced on May 20, 2008, a donation of $1 million to Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, the largest gift ever from one individual to the institution. Dean said: "I've been so blessed, and it makes me proud to give back, especially to my hometown."
On February 23, 2010, Dean was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He was to have been inducted in October.
Dean had three children, Garry, Connie, and Robert, with his first wife Mary Sue (née Wittauer) Dean; and two granddaughters, Caroline Taylor (Connie's daughter) and Brianna Dean (Robert's daughter).
Dean died at the age of 81, on June 13, 2010, of natural causes at his home in Varina, Virginia. He is also survived by his second wife Donna and his nephew, country music singer Billy Dean.
He was entombed in a piano-shaped mausoleum overlooking the James River on the grounds of his estate. His epitaph reads "Here Lies One Hell of a Man".
Discography
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