Canray Fontenot & Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin performing at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival, Newport, R.I. Shot by Alan Lomax and crew. For more information about Alan Lomax and his collections, visit culturalequity.org. [N20R04]
I saw these two perform together in July 1995, Canray Fontenot died about a month later. In another Alan Lomax Newport film, you can see Bois Sec dance while Clark Kessenger is fiddling.
I'd love to know what violin he's using ,,, where he got it ,,, how much he paid for it ,,, and where can i get it and how much would I have to pay for it ,,,, not just this violin, but seemingly EVERYONE around the era seemd to have a similar violin
An anthropological question- are these Cajun singers black? Perhaps with French origins due to slavery, Yet I’m also thinking they may have heavy summer tans from working their whole lives in the rice fields and in the waters trawling.
They are Creoles from S.W. Louisiana. And the music they play is known today as Zydeco. The race origin of Creoles can range, but are mainly African, French, and Indian. I am also from S.W. Louisiana.
They are black creoles, distinct from their white Cajun counterparts. They sing and speak French due to the exceptionally enduring traditions of both the original French colonialists and the Canadian Acadians who moved to that area in the mid-1800’s. But yes, they are racially and ethnically black, and not just tanned.
@@Funkshyn They are racially black, ethnically creole. All French Louisianans regardless of race were an entirely separate ethnic group from white/black anglophone America for years, they aren't the same ethnicity, many are white, many are black, some are mixed, but they're ethnically Creole. Many creoles also speak Kouri-Vini, along with French, or something in between They were also living proof that black/colored creoles spoke French too, and real French, because a lot of people like to say that Louisiana francophones all speak creole, or some incomprehensible dialect, which is not true in the slightest
🤨😑are you slow. What else would they be if not Black, they speak the way the do cause the French owned Louisiana and that’s where their ancestors were enslaved. It’s not hard to get
