Hi, I got my christmas gift early. I am a tug boat captain and will not be home for the holidays. My wife bought me a Bonetti accordion. I've had it about a week and a half now and am able to play, "mary had a little lamb" and am working on "silent night" now. i am looking forward to learning to play some real cajun music.

Hey Greg, great idea! We have our tune for december!
See website #2.

Very Cool, Peer! Any Cajun band down here would be proud to have that arrangement in their Christmas gigs!

ok, i watched the video and i am truely impressed. I thought i was doing good to play through the song, single button simple. wow, that was really good. i hope to be that good some day.

Peer

Congrats!

Sounds like your on the right track.

Just follow your heart and keep squeezin'!

I had to comment; in a previous (very non-Cajun)
band that I was part of, I wrote and performed a
song named "Tug Boat Captain".

We even had stage-hands who operated wooden cut-out
"waves" while we performed the song!

(No kidding!)

Take care,

-Big Nick

Big Nick, that is hilarious! I want me some cardboard cut-out waves!

But enough small talk - where's your Poullard Special . . .?

that is funny, i can see the waves moving as you play.
my job is great i really love what i do, but it does keep me away from home.

Hey, who built your boat? I used to build boats out of Quality Equipment, in Houma, La. That was 40 years ago though.

Well i think it's rather small for that kind of trickery:



- Nout

Nout,

Use your powers for good.

My boat was built at quality. It is fairly new. It was built in '96.

I'll be ****ed. I worked there in 1972 and a little later.

Use your powers for good, Nick!

Greg, I highly recommend you get Big Nick's instructional DVD vol 1. It is very professionally done and easy to follow. I used it and it was money well spent. A good cajun tune to start with is the Wafus Two step. Big Nick also has a web site with free introductory lessons. There is a lot of good info here. Good luck and keep squeezin'.

Peer, that was an awesome rendition of Silent Night. I never thought of cajun style Christmas carols. I must try that one myself. Well done Sir and Merry Christmas to all.

Thanks Dana. It just came into my mind that it should be possible to "cajunize" this song. I hope nobody took offense.
Merry Christmas to all!!