Festival program 2010

 The Cajun and Zydeco Festival of Pontchartrain will take place from  21 to 23 May 2010.

Click on the pictures to find out the bands which will make you dance on the lively rhythms of Louisiana

FRIDAY 21 May 2010

08:30 p.m. : (Foyer rural)

• LES ROULAILLEURS (F)
• SARAH SAVOY & THE FRANCADIENS (USA/F)
• OPEN STAGE (upon registration)  

SATURDAY 22 May 2010

11:00 a.m. / 07:00 p.m.  : FREE OUTDOOR DANCE

• JAZZ (Pontchartrain Music Academy) 
• LES ROULAILLEURS (F)
• CAJUN ROOSTERS (D/GB)
• BELISAIRE (F)

08:30 p.m.  : (Foyer rural)

• BLUE BAYOU (F)
• LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS (USA)
• OPEN STAGE (upon registration)  

SUNDAY 23 May 2010

11:00 a.m. / 07:00 p.m.  : FREE OUTDOOR DANCE 

• JAZZ (USA)
• OPEN STAGE (upon registration) 
• BELISAIRE (F)
• BLUE BAYOU (F)

08:30 p.m. : (Foyer rural)

• LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS (USA)
• CAJUN ROOSTERS (D/GB)
• OPEN STAGE (upon registration) 

DANCE WORKSHOPS : Saturday  and Sunday mornings from 09.00 to 12.00 a.m. (on registration)

"Beginner" level, Sylviane JEAN & Bernard  GUIHARD : Waltz, Cajun Freeze, Jitterburg, Troïka,  Zydeco

"Advanced" level, Yann & Marilyn : Waltz, Cajun Freeze, Jitterburg, Troïka,  Zarico Cha-cha, Zydeco

INSTRUMENT WORKSHOPS : Melodeon, Fiddle, Guitar (on registration)

Fiddle : Fabrice CAILLARD, Guitar : Christian GUALDI, Melodeon : Eric MARTIN

 CINEMA

Four remarkable documentary productions Quebec-Louisiana, 

proposed by  Louisiane à la Carte" :

-"Generation Louie Michot "  

The future of Louisiana French Cajun music and culture is in good hands with young luminaries like Louie Michot.  French Louisiana may never return to its former days of glory, but Lafayette musician, Louie Michot, doesn’t miss a beat as he makes it irresistibly “cool” to be French. Meeting and jam-session between the leader of the Lost Bayou Ramblers and Zachary Richard.

-"Horace Trahan"  

Young Cajun musician, converted to the Zydeco, interviewed by the Acadian singer Marie-Jo Thériot.

"Carol Fran : Bury My Heart with the Blues" 

Portrait of a touching old lady, French Blues singer living in Lafayette.

When the Acadian exiles met black Creole society of colonial Louisiana, what came about was an awareness of their resemblances that would eventually form the roux of America’s most complex cultural gumbo. Carol Fran sings the blues – blues steeped in a cross-cultural borrowing of tried and true remedies good for treating the generational ailments of bondage and ethnic cleansing.

-"Jimmie Meaux" 

Before the Conquest of the West, the first American cowboys were Cajuns. Some of them are still existing today, like the amazing Jimmie Meaux.

Each film 27 ', subtitled in French or English when necessary.Total Time projection 2 hours.

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