Dennis McGee visite Bois-Sec Ardoin 

In VERY loving memory of Mr. Dennis McGee (1893 - 1989 R.I.P. Gone but NOT forgotten).

Whoever posted Thank you soooo Much I love seeing my heritage like this I am Dennis' Great Grandaughter! I loved being a part of these get togethers when I was a kid This is truly beautiful History!!

This is the face of humanity guys. God Bless these folks and their music,

bravo, mr boisec ardouin que DIEU veille sur vous super musique et merçi pour l'alto de denis mc ghee, hasta louego!!!!!! de royan en saintonge-maritime aquuitaine france

Dennis McGee my grandfather! Glad these Videos are being posted!

my dad and "bios"..sec'....are these guys having a good time?? yu see the joy they get out of .."music!!

Encore, je veux dire que j'aime ca tellement le musique de les cajun. Merci, beaucoup.

That made my heart happy. Miss you Bois!

It doesn't get better than this.

Formidable, merci pour la vidéo.

Looks like a National Film Board of Canada production. Btw, Dennis McGee looks like he could be a brother of the late Metis fiddler, Frank Desjarlais, of Manitoba - even holds his fiddle the same way ... !

Two Great legends

Love love this video,

Here is how I can make out the lyrics Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin sang this time for the first few verses: Petite ou grosse, Madame Edouard Ça m'fait d'la peine Petite ou la grosse, chère Ils sont tout l'même prix Donne moi, mama, chère Quoi moi j'vas faire? Rien pas j'ai fait, chère Sont tout l'même prix Petite ou grosse, chère Ça m'fait d'la peine Tout l'même prix, chère Ils est pour moi même (?) Moi, j'ai demander, chère Moi, j't'ai demander Cette la j'voulais, chère Dans ma maison Small or big, Madame Edouard It gives me pain Small or big, dear They're both the same price Give me, mama, dear What am I going to do? Nothing I do, dear They're both worth the same price Small or big, dear It gives me pain Both the same price, dear They're both for me Me, I ask, dear Me, I ask you That one I want, dear, At my house (Word for word translations don't capture the idioms very well. If it's not grammatical in English, it IS in the French he's using!) Excuse the spelling! I am not the best with French. But I am pretty sure I am real close to it. This is Louisiana French, Cajun I guess you would say, not Creole. Denus and Bois Sec, white and black, would have had no trouble understanding one another. My impression of Creole French as spoken by blacks around Breaux Bridge and St. Martin parish is that the grammar and word order is more different. McGee was from Eunice and Ardoin was from L'Anse Prien Noir near Basile and Oberlin, NOT where I would associate speaking Creole French but I might be wrong. I am not a linguist, historian, French scholar --- just a native fan of the music. The story is basically the same in most versions you will hear. It's a young man calling out to a mother (Madame Edouard, Madame Entelle, I have heard different names but it does not affect the basic story) who has a little daughter (petite) and a fat one (grosse). The young man asks her to give them to him. It doesn't matter which one, they're both worth the same to him (Ils sont tout la même prix _ they're both the same price). I don't know why Bois Sec sings Ca m'fait d'la peine (It gives me pain) when what makes better sense in the story is C'est PAS d'la peine (It's no use, it doesn't matter which girl). At the beginning of the video the 2 men are teasing each other. Which one are you going to have? The small one or the fat one?

That was serious I'm telling you sometime playing live music right inside the living room is better than being on a stage and is any of their recordings is available this day 2022 please let me know I can listen to that group all day long great post thanks for posting 🎶🎶🎶🎶👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

good stuff!two legends!

Long live humanity!🥰

Very nice music ! ty for the upload.

i wish there was more video of these two together!

so thankful to have seen this!

Allons en bas fete !

Fantastico awesome. Thanks for posting.

J'aime

great post!!

My cousin Anders j espree who they called Beaujocque but Beaujocque Mouton is my real name good music

can anyone please translate this song,it sounds great!

Is he singing in Cajun or Creole?

The videographer is obviously more interested in showing the emotions of the players than in the playing itself. Too bad. There aren't enough videos of either one of them playing and for those who are interested in their styles there is a lot to learn from seeing how they handle their instruments etc. What I can ascertain is that Denis is putting a strong upbow on the offbeats to match the rhythm of the accordion. His bow grip, what little of it I could see, is quite interesting as well. It looks like he has a pretty tight grip on the bow and his action is more in his wrist and arm more that his fingers.

@OBSysteme So... What exactly is your problem? How have Cajuns lost their culture?

Petite ou grosse? A happy man's dilemma!