That's an excellent question. What attracts me to Cajun music, is the energy in the music. It makes you want to move to the rhythm. This music makes you feel good. I love the blend of accordion, fiddle and guitar together with triangle for percussion. Add a bass guitar and drum kit and you can't stop moving your feet. I have been to Cajun and Zydeco dances and always found a well behaved crowd in an upbeat and festive mood. They came to dance and dance they did, right from the first song. This music is very similar in tempo to the polkas we played back in the 70s when I played bass guitar and chemnitzer concertina. We had two fiddles and two trumpets which gave us a unique country flavored polka sound. You add the accordion to drive the melody and we had a kick-ass sound that would "turn goat pee into jet fuel". When I heard my first Cajun two step, it took me right back to the stage, pounding out a solid danceable beat with the crowd cheering us on. When I heard Nathan Abshire's "Domino Two Step" it blew me away and I knew I had to learn to play accordion. I have also played two row Irish accordion in the past so I am naturally attracted to the accordion in this music and am learning to play from Big Nicks DVD volume 3 as I write this. Hopefully, I will learn the language in time.

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