1 November 2022
Tap your toes, clap your hands…
Whoop, holler, stomp, and shout Cajun music
By James Conner
These musicians hail from France, but they would be right at home, and more than welcome, in a Louisiana dance hall on a foot stomping Saturday night. Here’s Google’s English translation of their story from YouTube.
A Cajun music group created in 2014 and originally from Brittany, the Cajun Bouexi Band is devoted to the songs of our American cousins — the two steps, blues and waltzes from the vast traditional Cajun repertoire of Louisiana are thus interpreted in a resolutely modern style mixing current Louisiana swing, rock, rhythm’n blues, and country.
Thus fiddle, vocals, guitar, bass, drums, frottoir, harmonica, melodeon, resonate with energy in a warm and generous atmosphere. The Cajun Bouexi Band performs in various formats ranging from the acoustic quartet to the Big Band of 10 musicians! The group now performs everywhere in France and does not hesitate to cross borders…