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Re: Balfa Camp Summary

Aw heck, Jamey - you wait til I'm not there and then start singing English pub songs? I'll never be a passable player of Cajun music, but I'm yer man for a pub song.
EJ Moeran (1894 - 1950), deploring the sanitized, bowdlerized, genteel 'parlour' treatment of traditional songs, reckoned that their true home was in pubs and that "it may as well be said that real traditional singing is non-existant apart from (i.e. when separated from) beer."

I'll drink to that. So did EJ. It killed him at age 55.

Does Ron come from 'over here', or is he a colonial who knows a good song? I don't know the one about a Big Fat Woman, but it sounds like one I'd like to have. The song, that is, although...... anyway, this ain't doing much for the promotion of Cajun French culture ( the aim, I may remind you, of Balfa Camp )

It all sounds to me like rather too much strong drink was taken in my absence.

BJ

Re: Balfa Camp Summary - by Jamey Hall - May 5, 2012 4:30pm
Re: Balfa Camp Summary - by Patrick O - May 5, 2012 9:52pm
Re: Balfa Camp Summary - by BJ - May 6, 2012 1:01pm


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