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The Cajun Roosters3 started life as an offspring of the 5 piece Cajun Roosters for a multimedia performance called ‘Cajuntales’, where the history of Louisiana and its people is told by combining film, cartoons, photos and live Cajun music. This show was featured several times at festivals and locations throughout Germany with repeated showings in Munich at the famous Amerikahaus.
They have played several major venues and festivals already including a 23 date tour of Germany. The tour took the trio by surprise. Most venues were sold out in advance and the great interest from the media and the public was evidence of a growing interest in this music with its origins in a culture thousands of miles away across the Atlantic Ocean. The music was at the same time unfamiliar yet strangely connected to the audience. Played on 3 simple instruments the sound of the fiddle, guitar and perhaps most of all the accordion struck a chord with the public.
They released a CD "From the swamps and bayous of Louisiana" at the start of 2008 which won 1st runner up in the 2008 European Cajun and Zydeco Awards (order here).
Specialize in down home traditional Cajun music with a side order of acoustic Zydeco and Creole music. They play two steps, waltzes, Cajun blues and back porch Zydeco from SW Louisiana. It’s a raw uncluttered sound that evokes the mysteries of the bayous and swamps of Louisiana. Classic timeless music that takes you on a journey from the 1920’s when this music was first recorded to the present day. Along the way they tell stories about the musicians who created this music and reveal some of the fascinating history of the Cajun people and their culture. Equally at home playing seated concerts or to dancing crowds the Cajun Roosters3 leave audiences shouting for more everywhere they have played. Their passion for the music is infectious and clear from the first note to the last. Three musicians united in their love and understanding of one of the greatest undiscovered musics of the 21st century.
Cajun Roosters 3 play songs by Iry Le Jeune, Nathan Abshire, Canray Fontenot, The Balfa Brothers, The Lawtell Playboys, Lawrence Walker, Aldus Roger, Austin Pitre, Leroy Broussard, Bois sec Ardoin, and many more.
Cajun Roosters3 - Bandbio download here
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(accordion, fiddle, vocals) Since the 70s Louisiana accordion boss man Chris Hall, based in Derby/UK, is known through his work with R.Cajun & the Zydeco Brothers, The Bearcats, Zydecomotion and Breaux. His reputation is such that he was called on by Bill Wyman to play on his album and was also part of the band put together by Sir Paul McCartney to record his “Run Devil Run” album. He was also called in by Kate Bush to contribute to her last album. Through his company Swampmusic he has been responsible for many festivals, tours and concerts of Louisiana artists in Europe taking to the road many times with artists like Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, John and Geno Delafose, and Randy Vidrine and Mitch Reed. He has studied the music first hand |
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over many years with the masters in Louisiana, has a huge knowledge of C/Z and has been playing the music for over 25 years. He is widely acknowledged as one of the finest exponents of this music outside of Louisiana and has won many awards for his playing. He plays Acadian Cajun accordions handmade in Louisiana and a Hohner Supreme handmade in Germany. |
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(fiddle, scrubboard, vocals) is a fine musician, with a rare and uncanny ability to really get to grips with the subtlety of the style and capture the Cajun feel on the fiddle. He has carefully studied the masters with great passion, attending workshops and learning from them at first hand and in a short period of time has emerged as one of the few players outside the USA who really understand how to get the elusive Cajun sound. He is a versatile player with an ability to understand the finer details of the old masters like Dewey Balfa, Dennis McGee, and Canray Fontenot as well as younger players like Mitch Reed, Kevin Wimmer, and Travis Matte. He is also a fine Cajun singer and plays an authentic |
scrubboard which he learnt from the great Joe Chavis. He plays an old French fiddle which he renovated in his own workshop where he also builds handmade guitars. |
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(guitar) has also known the Louisiana Cajun scene for a long time. During the 1980‘s he went to Louisiana for the first time to do an interview with Dewey Balfa and other Cajun musicians for a documentary film about the music. From that moment on he has been in love with the music and has spent his time studying and playing the music of his heroes. As a documentary film maker and TV director of many music shows he has been around many kinds of music all his life, yet one thing has remained constant, his love of Cajun and Zydeco music. He is a versatile player encompassing not only a fine Cajun Rhythm but also Creole and Zydeco on the acoustic guitar. His rock solid intense rhythms form the basis of the groove that is so important in Cajun music. |
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