In the first 8 seconds, you zoomed in on my Pawpaw, Norris Mire. He's standing next to Pop Eye Broussard with the fiddle and I don't remember who the other guy with the guitar was. They won a music contest in Texas and got their picture taken to put on the cover of a record album ... one of the very first copies I still have today. I have this exact squeeze box (accordion), rebuilt by friend-of-the-family Sydney Brown in the 1940's, in a beautiful cedar case. Oh the memories I had sitting in the kitchen listening to him singing with his beautiful deep voice and playing the accordion or the guitar.
Love this music though im not Cajun - it touches the heart and makes me feel nostalgic for a past that never existed ... these old cajun songs really hit you deep , especially with the translations - too bad some people wont understand this - I wish more would appreciate American roots culture
Tito Torres creole means native born mais cher ami. We all are Louisiana French. We come from mainly French that gave us the Acadian language, the spainiah that names Louisiana and the friendly indien D’ Amerique we married into as that saved us from starving then came the French creole Gen D’ Coleur
Beautiful song and the unofficial national anthem of the Cajun. I've been to parts of Louisiana and at times I do not want to come back to my own country Texas. What a beautiful culture. Long live Acadiana and the Cajuns!!!!!!!!
In the early stages of possibly writing a musical theatre piece about Huey Long. Everyone associates Louisiana with only Jazz, but there is so much more, this music was the music of the masses, and there’s elements of folk and bluegrass, blues etc. such a rich musical culture to explore! Proud to be from Louisiana!
I Love my French Music, making me miss all my old ppl like this man here playing the accordion! This is all I play while fixing Daddy's Old House 🏡♥️I Love my Louisiana 👈
Did you ever see this old zydeco music video that they used to play on Sesame Street all the time back in the early 90's? I used to love this video when I was a kid, but I forgot about it for years, until the thought to look it up just randomly popped into my head yesterday, for some reason. The thing might as well be an old Louisiana Board of Tourism commercial. Here's the video th-cam.com/video/c_SGKnw611k/w-d-xo.html
I may be from the Boston area but I love this music. Liked it before "Southern Comfort" but loved it even more after. This is what real music is all about.
What impress me much about cajun music, it's the blending it has with Creole and Spanish sonorities. As a French Speaker from Québec. up north, it is such a difference in music as well in the feeling of the singing. As for us up here, French music has mixed with the Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh sonoroties. Same language, same continent, different feel.
@@IslenoGutierrez no cajuns are French speaking people from nova scotia creole is black, mixed and Indian this music belongs to the cajuns hence cajun music now there is acadian music and creole music like zydeco but this here is cajun music and you can definitely tell the difference between cajun and creole music they are similar but yet very very different
Have you ever listened to La Danse de Mardi Gras? It’s a medieval Breton modal song that some Cajuns apparently took from France to Canada and down to Louisiana. Listening to it is just a rush of feeling.
@@IslenoGutierrez You’re technically correct. But most Cajuns wouldn’t identify as such. The Creoles of New Orleans used to look down on the Cajuns, and so the Cajuns doubled down on their own unique way of life in the swamps
Wow, very cool. Even though im from nola it’s hard for me to identify the differences between Quebec, Cajun, and plain ol French French. What I can tell is how heavily Cajun and zydeco music are influenced by traditional French music-far more than any music from nola.
When I was a little kid we'd spend weekends at my grandparents' farm in Smoky River MD just outside of McLennan, and every Friday night we'd all pile in and drive down to the Legion Hall dance and hear the old guys play. It was just like this, all acousitc without any mics; guitars, accordions, fiddles - and being a predominantly French speaking municipality - the singing too. They'd even bring out the triangles and spoons once in a while, a highlight was being able to get up and join in on it. Growing up in that environment has had such a big hand in developing my love for music, if not for those times I don't think I would have it; at least not as strongly.
Fantastic. What a musical education there is in the cultural traditions. Fascinating when what isn't standardized through a larger medium becomes it's own derivative or interpretation. It must keep all the musicians guessing unless they're local to each version. Sort of like musical dialect! Thanks.
I'm a Acadien and proud of the Cajun peoples went there many time hard working put man they sure know how too party with music and that liquor lollll thank you all most of them been deport from NB and NS
The Cajun Family on the porch in the video are the Schexnayders from Lyons Point, Louisiana (Mr. Avnel and his wife Evelina (LeBouef) Schexnayder and some of the children, they had a total of 16 children living, but she had a total of 19 pregnancy!! I know this because this is my Husbands Grand Parents and one of the boys in the video is his Father (Wilbert Schexnayder) Love the Cajun Spirit Please let it Live On!!
Annette Schexnayder Also, the surname LeBouef is French Creole (white Creole), not Acadian. The name LeBouef was present in Louisiana before the Acadians arrived. It’s misinformation that Cajuns are Acadians. They are a mixture of Acadians, French from France and white French that fled the slave uprisings from colonial Haiti, plus many have Spanish Creole, German Creole, English, Italian, Irish or Native American admixture. Really, “Cajuns” need to start calling themselves Creoles again and drop the Cajun identity because they are not Acadians. www.acadianmemorial.org/ensemble_encore2/cajunrootsc.htm
Yep, I feel the same about my Appalachian friends...though i'm not from there, grew up nearby and I understand them, though most folks elsewhere don't...
Does Anyone know builder/make of the Accordion Nathan is playing? I have seen him using this model in many many videos. R.I.P Nathan Abshire ,Your Missed And your Music will never die
Slidell born, but still creole. My father was born from French speaking grandfather. Self made man. My grandmother taught him how to read, and such. He served in the military. My grandmothers family didn’t approve of her marrying my grandfather because he was French speaking. They called it dirty. I’m proud of my heritage! Acadian forced from their lands by the Brit’s. Followed the chain route through the Caribbean islands just to be dumped off in the bayous of south Louisiana with nothing but the sacks from what they could carry of their own possessions. Working the Cain fields, and living off the bayous to survive.
Excellent explanation. I remember I had a Danish girlfriend who spoke about 5 languages including French, Czech, English, German not to mention Danish. I speak English, Spanish and Italian...we would get into an argument over the definition of dialect. I told her a dialect is a variation of a route language. She visiting the states said people from Texas or New York spoke in a dialect. I told her they just have a different accent but may use some different slang. The UK would be a dialect.
@bigbuffler I'm Acadian, and what you said was mostly true, but there where a few inaccuracies. The deportation of the Acadians took place in 1755. At that time we occupied all of New-Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and parts of Maine and New England. Louisbourg was the main fort of the Acadians, but after relentless attacks by the much more numerous English, Fort Beauséjour finally fell to Lt. Col. Robert Monckton. They named Moncton the city after him. I live 20 minutes away.
In the American reality, the Acadians/Cajuns weren't even white trash - they were a subgroup who even in their own state were disenfranchised. It was only in the latter part of the 20th Century that Acadian/cajun culture and music were recognized. And the Abshire family are the Carters of Acadian/cajun music.
Cajuns weren't really bothered by anyone until the 1920s. That's when the WASPS were in full swing. Before then, in the 19th century, they were generally at the same standing as everyone else.
In the 1800s they had it about the same as any other rural whites in the South, because the nation wasn’t fully connected yet and they could keep being French in relative peace. The early 1900s was when assimilation was forced and the language was almost eradicated. Nowadays people respect Cajuns and their language. But my great grandparents in Laplace refused to teach my grandpa any French, because when they were young they were beat if caught speaking it at school. I love the USA but I wish we’d kept our language
How wonderful. I met him a long time ago. My third born son i named Nathan After him. Mr Abshire saved my life one day. And if not for him and some advice he gave me i would not be here writing this or would had any of my four children. You see i was a young man and very sad about sone things in my life. And i drove from Houston to Louisiana and pulled in a old gas station and was thinking about killing myself. But then a old man reached in my truck with a big hand and grabbed my shoulder and said don't you do that. He said i had a long road ahead of me and that to many people cared to be so selfish. Well we had our first of many talks. I owe a lot. Every thing i have. I could say lots about this man. All good.
@rangerchallengebravo they have found creole descendants from off the coast of madagascar in the indian ocean.. just to let you know.. but keep it going.. history is a crazy thing!
Was anyone in this video, in that old cajun music video from Sesame Street that they used to play in the early 90's, though I'm sure it was made earlier than that?
@Bornying My Father sang in English he sang jolie blon you came from Louisiana where the rice and the gravy and the wine drive you crazy,oh how I miss my Jolie Blon he plays the fiddle,hope this helps.,,
In the first 8 seconds, you zoomed in on my Pawpaw, Norris Mire. He's standing next to Pop Eye Broussard with the fiddle and I don't remember who the other guy with the guitar was. They won a music contest in Texas and got their picture taken to put on the cover of a record album ... one of the very first copies I still have today. I have this exact squeeze box (accordion), rebuilt by friend-of-the-family Sydney Brown in the 1940's, in a beautiful cedar case. Oh the memories I had sitting in the kitchen listening to him singing with his beautiful deep voice and playing the accordion or the guitar.
My dad was Cajun, he was a hard working, kind, honest and faithful man. 💙
My Mom has relatives that came from Acadia, but then were exiled and went to Louisiana and opened a store there.
Not sure what town but I believe their name was Dupereaux ...(?)
You should learn le français pour être heureux
Yes, Nathan Abshire is a legendary musician. I don't care if I don't know a word in French or Cajun French. This is some real music.
In very loving memory of Mr. Nathan Joseph Abshire (1913 - 1981 R.I.P. Gone but NOT forgotten)
Proud to call Nathan my great great great uncle.
We must be related I’m related to him and Mann Abshire , my grandmother is Wanda my great grandfather was Joe Abshire
my great grandfather is buried next to him
Love this music though im not Cajun - it touches the heart and makes me feel nostalgic for a past that never existed ... these old cajun songs really hit you deep , especially with the translations - too bad some people wont understand this - I wish more would appreciate American roots culture
Bianca Britt ok
well said ....I am german and I love this music ...
I love being from South Louisiana and my Cajun heritage!
Jason Raymond Cajuns are creoles
+El Matador no it's two different things Creole is more of African American culture.
Tito Torres creole means native born mais cher ami. We all are Louisiana French. We come from mainly French that gave us the Acadian language, the spainiah that names Louisiana and the friendly indien D’ Amerique we married into as that saved us from starving then came the French creole Gen D’ Coleur
Beautiful song and the unofficial national anthem of the Cajun. I've been to parts of Louisiana and at times I do not want to come back to my own country Texas. What a beautiful culture. Long live Acadiana and the Cajuns!!!!!!!!
The Cajuns are a beautiful people. Humble, hard-working, and know how to party. Fun to be around.
In the early stages of possibly writing a musical theatre piece about Huey Long. Everyone associates Louisiana with only Jazz, but there is so much more, this music was the music of the masses, and there’s elements of folk and bluegrass, blues etc. such a rich musical culture to explore! Proud to be from Louisiana!
Agreed
I think I will have another drink. This is excellent music.
Still watching this in 2022 ❤️ Erath,La here. Love my Cajuns
Wow...as a displaced Cajun (and an Abshire and LeuLeu) its great to see Nathan out here. My paw paw, from Crowley, used to speak highly of him.
Wonderful music. I passed me some good times in Louisiana. Still do occasionally when I visit there. 🪗
I LOVE Acadian (Cajun) Music!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH🕊️❤️🙏 Mr. Abshire, you are Now in Heavenly Louisiana Praise GOD😘👍
I Love my French Music, making me miss all my old ppl like this man here playing the accordion! This is all I play while fixing Daddy's Old House 🏡♥️I Love my Louisiana 👈
Did you ever see this old zydeco music video that they used to play on Sesame Street all the time back in the early 90's? I used to love this video when I was a kid, but I forgot about it for years, until the thought to look it up just randomly popped into my head yesterday, for some reason. The thing might as well be an old Louisiana Board of Tourism commercial. Here's the video th-cam.com/video/c_SGKnw611k/w-d-xo.html
@@Melissa0774 WOW Thank You I going to look that up I appreciate that very much 🤗
NATHAN ABSHIRE WAS GREAT!!HE HAD A LOT OF GOOD SONGS AND WAS AN ENTERTAINER.NOT MANY ARE LIKE HIM.
I may be from the Boston area but I love this music. Liked it before "Southern Comfort" but loved it even more after. This is what real music is all about.
As someone who plays the music this makes me happy to see
What impress me much about cajun music, it's the blending it has with Creole and Spanish sonorities. As a French Speaker from Québec. up north, it is such a difference in music as well in the feeling of the singing. As for us up here, French music has mixed with the Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh sonoroties. Same language, same continent, different feel.
Louis Georges Deschênes Cajuns are Creoles. Creole in Louisiana just means descendants of colonial Louisianians. The Spanish here are Creoles too.
@@IslenoGutierrez no cajuns are French speaking people from nova scotia creole is black, mixed and Indian this music belongs to the cajuns hence cajun music now there is acadian music and creole music like zydeco but this here is cajun music and you can definitely tell the difference between cajun and creole music they are similar but yet very very different
Have you ever listened to La Danse de Mardi Gras? It’s a medieval Breton modal song that some Cajuns apparently took from France to Canada and down to Louisiana. Listening to it is just a rush of feeling.
@@IslenoGutierrez You’re technically correct. But most Cajuns wouldn’t identify as such. The Creoles of New Orleans used to look down on the Cajuns, and so the Cajuns doubled down on their own unique way of life in the swamps
Wow, very cool. Even though im from nola it’s hard for me to identify the differences between Quebec, Cajun, and plain ol French French. What I can tell is how heavily Cajun and zydeco music are influenced by traditional French music-far more than any music from nola.
When I was a little kid we'd spend weekends at my grandparents' farm in Smoky River MD just outside of McLennan, and every Friday night we'd all pile in and drive down to the Legion Hall dance and hear the old guys play. It was just like this, all acousitc without any mics; guitars, accordions, fiddles - and being a predominantly French speaking municipality - the singing too. They'd even bring out the triangles and spoons once in a while, a highlight was being able to get up and join in on it.
Growing up in that environment has had such a big hand in developing my love for music, if not for those times I don't think I would have it; at least not as strongly.
R.I.P. Nathan Abshire. Vous étiez un véritable génie musical.
c'est un véritable plaisir de découvrir cette culture française d'Amérique. Qu'en restera t-il dans les années à venir ?
Grande chanson
Grande version
Grand artiste
Thanks for posting
I knew this man many years ago. I miss him.
Cajun music has a sweet sadness always touched me
Great music thanks for putting it on utube
Dats wat tickle them Cajuns on da toes! Love it💃❣️🎭
that is passion personified. The Cajuns seem to have a happy and carefree life style. Why can't the rest of the world do the same?
Simple times, wish I could have met him, he and my great grand father was good friends
Fantastic. What a musical education there is in the cultural traditions. Fascinating when what isn't standardized through a larger medium becomes it's own derivative or interpretation. It must keep all the musicians guessing unless they're local to each version. Sort of like musical dialect! Thanks.
Cajun music is so unique, so is the cooking, a great hidden treasure in America
My dad was Cajun, I’m half Cajun and love my Cajun heritage. 🥰
At the end of this clip Ancelet says "after a week of hard work, there was hard playing". People didn't take week ends off. They worked everyday.
One of my Grandma's favorite songs!! XO
Wohhhh this music is so great!!!!!!! I love it!! Big biggggg applauds!!
I'm a Acadien and proud of the Cajun peoples went there many time hard working put man they sure know how too party with music and that liquor lollll thank you all most of them been deport from NB and NS
Spot on sir!
Very good song. Good language Cadien.
J'aime cette vidéo. Monsieur ABSHIRE devait être un gentilhomme.
Thanks for posting this clip. I really wish I could have heard Nathan Abshire in person.
Lot of depth to this video and performance. Thanks very much for posting it! Nathan looked good in this video.
I love this song... my mom & granny's love this song!!! goob job ya
The Cajun Family on the porch in the video are the Schexnayders from Lyons Point, Louisiana (Mr. Avnel and his wife Evelina (LeBouef) Schexnayder and some of the children, they had a total of 16 children living, but she had a total of 19 pregnancy!! I know this because this is my Husbands Grand Parents and one of the boys in the video is his Father (Wilbert Schexnayder) Love the Cajun Spirit Please let it Live On!!
Annette Schexnayder Also, the surname LeBouef is French Creole (white Creole), not Acadian. The name LeBouef was present in Louisiana before the Acadians arrived. It’s misinformation that Cajuns are Acadians. They are a mixture of Acadians, French from France and white French that fled the slave uprisings from colonial Haiti, plus many have Spanish Creole, German Creole, English, Italian, Irish or Native American admixture. Really, “Cajuns” need to start calling themselves Creoles again and drop the Cajun identity because they are not Acadians.
www.acadianmemorial.org/ensemble_encore2/cajunrootsc.htm
Bonjour du Québec, comprend très bien les paroles de nos cousins du sud, laissez l’abondance temps rouler
I love Cajun music.
As a coonass, I hear this and I know everything is going to be ok. Love your mahs love your shahs and laissez les bons temps rouler caĵons
I love that he wishes her all the unhappiness one can experience lol
🎼🎵Nathan Abshire
🎵 A Louisiana Legacy ! 🎼🎵
AMAZING is an understatement. I bet they dance to this in heaven and if they dont they dont know good music and musicians..
It comes straight from the pirates era! It's amazing!
Jolie Blonde is my favorite Cajun song. Love to dance at the Fais Doo Doo
My middle name is Jolie and I was named after this song
weekend of hard playing, indeed.. that photo is like a vogue shoot
Thank you for the subtitles.
Love this music!!
thank youtube for immortalizing this fading part of americana. French or otherwise, it's what makes us a country
Yep, I feel the same about my Appalachian friends...though i'm not from there, grew up nearby and I understand them, though most folks elsewhere don't...
Great Music !!! Thanks for posting this :)
Mr. Nathan was a special man
Miss this accent living in Tennessee. Also miss the fresh seafood, but still make my gumbo and etouffe, ayeee !
Does Anyone know builder/make of the Accordion Nathan is playing? I
have seen him using this model in many many videos. R.I.P Nathan
Abshire ,Your Missed And your Music will never die
check with this user
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He is expert on cajun accordions and makes them himself.
Check with this user
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He is best cajun accordion maker/expert I have found yet.
Thank you Paul
One of my favorites
wife and i are in baltimore. missing home like crazy. we got a great dose at cafe des amis in breaux bridge when we were home for christmas though.
He reminds me of my grandpa. He had this exact accent 💞
Slidell born, but still creole. My father was born from French speaking grandfather. Self made man. My grandmother taught him how to read, and such. He served in the military. My grandmothers family didn’t approve of her marrying my grandfather because he was French speaking. They called it dirty. I’m proud of my heritage! Acadian forced from their lands by the Brit’s. Followed the chain route through the Caribbean islands just to be dumped off in the bayous of south Louisiana with nothing but the sacks from what they could carry of their own possessions. Working the Cain fields, and living off the bayous to survive.
great music, and like the commentary
Excellent explanation. I remember I had a Danish girlfriend who spoke about 5 languages including French, Czech, English, German not to mention Danish. I speak English, Spanish and Italian...we would get into an argument over the definition of dialect. I told her a dialect is a variation of a route language. She visiting the states said people from Texas or New York spoke in a dialect. I told her they just have a different accent but may use some different slang. The UK would be a dialect.
thanks a lot mister scrambler390 for brodcasting such a good music
Thanks Scrambler390 !!!! Your video and song makes me smile this rainy November Louisianne morn..... :-)
Excellent.
@bigbuffler
I'm Acadian, and what you said was mostly true, but there where a few inaccuracies. The deportation of the Acadians took place in 1755. At that time we occupied all of New-Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and parts of Maine and New England.
Louisbourg was the main fort of the Acadians, but after relentless attacks by the much more numerous English, Fort Beauséjour finally fell to Lt. Col. Robert Monckton. They named Moncton the city after him. I live 20 minutes away.
Et vous avez été déportés par les rosbifs ! Honte à eux ! Amitié francophile de Bruxelles, capitale de l'Europe démocratique une et indivisible.
Love accordion
In the American reality, the Acadians/Cajuns weren't even white trash - they were a subgroup who even in their own state were disenfranchised. It was only in the latter part of the 20th Century that Acadian/cajun culture and music were recognized. And the Abshire family are the Carters of Acadian/cajun music.
Cajuns weren't really bothered by anyone until the 1920s. That's when the WASPS were in full swing. Before then, in the 19th century, they were generally at the same standing as everyone else.
In the 1800s they had it about the same as any other rural
whites in the South, because the nation wasn’t fully connected yet and they could keep being French in relative peace. The early 1900s was when assimilation was forced and the language was almost eradicated. Nowadays people respect Cajuns and their language. But my great grandparents in Laplace refused to teach my grandpa any French, because when they were young they were beat if caught speaking it at school. I love the USA but I wish we’d kept our language
oh, lucky lucky you. I would love to get to America to see some real Cajun music performed
WHAT GOD GIVEN TALEN T !!!!
just great, thanks
Now that's the way Louisiana is properly pronounced!.
My dad's first cuzin
How wonderful. I met him a long time ago. My third born son i named Nathan After him. Mr Abshire saved my life one day. And if not for him and some advice he gave me i would not be here writing this or would had any of my four children. You see i was a young man and very sad about sone things in my life. And i drove from Houston to Louisiana and pulled in a old gas station and was thinking about killing myself. But then a old man reached in my truck with a big hand and grabbed my shoulder and said don't you do that. He said i had a long road ahead of me and that to many people cared to be so selfish. Well we had our first of many talks. I owe a lot. Every thing i have. I could say lots about this man. All good.
Great music !
Vive la Cajun
It's sad to see that most of this videos are 12 years old along with some old comments. Love the cajun.
Thank you.
SALUT DE FRANCE
God I love Louisiana
@rangerchallengebravo they have found creole descendants from off the coast of madagascar in the indian ocean.. just to let you know.. but keep it going.. history is a crazy thing!
@jeb1022 Nice for you. Left his village, it is trouble. your father was lucky with mr nathan. Good courage. god bless usa.
Laissez le bon temp rouler cher.
Me encanta esta música
Leis-a le bonton roulle'!!
my dads favorite song
Was anyone in this video, in that old cajun music video from Sesame Street that they used to play in the early 90's, though I'm sure it was made earlier than that?
I miss that accent from back home.
Hell yea!
👍❤️
I believe he was related to my mother. We live in Louisiana and they share the same family name.
@Bornying My Father sang in English he sang jolie blon you came from Louisiana where
the rice and the gravy and the wine drive you crazy,oh how I miss my Jolie Blon
he plays the fiddle,hope this helps.,,
God damnit!!!!!!!!!!!
Génial l'accent .
I wish I could find the words to this particular version online, can’t get a hold of them
God man, just
maudit que c'est beau -
thats my best friend's great uncle and im NOT kidding
@MartinMunthe
Of course they do. They have a ton of them. Do you know how diverse British English accents can be? Look it up on TH-cam.
Jolie blonde