Cajun - Nathan Abshire - Jolie Blond - Accordion

Here is another video of the late great cajun musician Nathan Abshire playing Jolie Blond, a true cajun classic. Effortless playing. Clip taken from Les Blank's film "J'Etais Au Bal". I would recommend this video for ANY lover of cajun music.

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Music

Tags:

• cajun
• nathan
• abshire
• jolie
• blond
• accordion
• folk
• zydeco
• louisiana

[SCRAMBLER390]

We do not "try" to talk french. We speak the Cajun Language proudly. It is french, I can understand (what I call) Paris French. It just has a different accent and some words are different. Kinda like English speaking people. You can understand people from England, but they use different words and they have an accent,. SAME THING!

[TheDucati8v]

Obvious you don't know history. Otherwise you'd be tapping yo shoes.

[freba91]

@Bornying My Father sang in English he sang jolie blon you came from Louisiana where

the rice and the gravy and the wine drive you crazy,oh how I miss my Jolie Blon

he plays the fiddle,hope this helps.,,

[pownapowpow]

Where can i watch this film?

[MCSuire]

I believe he was related to my mother. We live in Louisiana and they share the same family name.

[Bornying]

I'm French from Lyon and so excited by this music. My future wife is from the US and learning the fiddle. Gotta come down south to check the festivals. Awesome!

[MonicaLynneS]

Nathan Abshire was a cousin of mine, way down the line. Unfortunately I never got to meet him. But listening to this makes me so proud to Cajun French and an Abshire :)

[Stefanochti]

@SCRAMBLER390 le Français que vous parlez souffre quand même de l'influence de l'anglais ...

[MrBeaumatoo]

I used to go to the Avalon in Basile every Saturday night. Nathan would always start off with "Oh it's Saturday night. Eh ha ha! Then that wonderful accordion would start.Sometimes it seems like only yesterday when I know it was really in the fifties. The Avalon is long gone and so is Nathan and most of the people of the time but those of us who remember ....have the fond-memories I was from Elton in those days.

Bill Fontenoy.

[jlm12b]

At the end of this clip Ancelet says "after a week of hard work, there was hard playing". People didn't take week ends off. They worked everyday.

[EatMyHamWallet]

is it that this song that this song speaks to me in another way? it kinda brings a tear to my eye.. its not a foot tapper to me.. i see sorrow in his eyes.. its pretty dam deep in my opinion.. great song for sure tho.. i really have much respect for the Cajuns.. its great to see at least some Europeans trying to hold onto its culture.