28 October 2022

Get out the vote music

Tap your toes to the Lake Arthur Stomp

By James Conner

In 12 days the voting stops and the counting begins. It’s get out the vote time — and that means it’s time for toe tappin’ music. Check in here each morning through election day for music that sets everyone a-dancing.

We’ll start with Eunice, Louisiana’s immensely talented Savoy family performing the Lake Arthur Stomp (starts at 43:18) during an hour-long Public Broadcasting System folkways concert. Meet chemical engineer Marc Savoy, legendary musician and maker of Cajun accordions, his wife, Ann, Cajun music historian who once sang with Linda Ronstadt, and their their fiddling sons, Joel and Wilson.

Tap your toes, move your feet, and get that vote out.