Cajun - Cheese Read - Tous les Soirs + Interview

Clip is taken from Yasha Aginsky's documentary "Cajun Visits". It is an AWESOME film I would HIGHLY recommend. Wallace "Cheese" Read, cajun violinist, here preforms "Tous Les Soirs" (Every night). Rare video of Cheese Read, he rarely played at public functions or dance halls, instead playing for private parties and for family and friends.
Included is an interview with Mr and Mrs Read.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Cajun
• fiddle
• violin
• cheese
• read
• louisiana

[mynamearekid]

My uncle's from Ville Platte, La, and he didnt speak english until the 4th grade and his parents never knew english at all. They spoke cajun french

[hondan93]

tres bon

[rainharper62]

I'm french & had ancestors who moved to louisiana-french creole is what acadians speak, its a mixture of acadian, french, indian, spanish & africans dialect-Vive le france! we remember where we came from! Vive le cajuns! Vive louisiana! I love the french language & everything french or cajun, and love new orleans!

[Dieudonne357]

@Ricepatch1 It is french you ass. When the Acadians were ran from Canada by the English we had to make new words for the new things in Louisiana of which there were no Euro French equivalent...learn your French history, merde de poulet. It's sad but I'm Lousiana Creole and probably know more about French history than you do.

[Dieudonne357]

@groslaiddu92 It's not mistakes tete de merde. The words that you call mistakes are new and they describe the new animals, plants and other things found in louisiana that the french from Canada had never seen and that were not native to the language. i'm Louisiana Creole and my wife and our families are too. My grand-uncle was an interpreter for the French in WW2 and stayed in Marsailles after the war. it's people like you who kill of the culture & make the Cajuns & Creoles ashamed.

[Dieudonne357]

@mynamearekid I tell people that and they dont believe me. My dad spoke creole french untill he came to houston at the age of 8. Then mon grandpere spoke only french, no english till the day he died at 93. Then when I was a kid my grandma wouldn't answer any of us kids unless we spoke in french...english WAS NOT ALLOWED spoken in the house. only in public when it was necessary. now, i'm married to a creole woman & we decided we are going to teach our kids the same way.

[koolsmoker86]

hey um groslaiddu, tu peuve t'en alle a la merde. People like you are the whole reason FRENCH is dying in south lousiana. I know first hand, trust me. Why do you think in world war II they used cajuns as translators. I learned french in school. My grandfather is from Leonville louisiana. He grew up speaking french. he and i converse daily, and believe me its french. They tried to eliminate it to have no language barriers by saying that its not french, so they should be ashamed of their heritage.

[cajuncole1]

Cheese once told me he had been offered to play at the Grand Old Opry but refused becasue he didn't like to travel far from home. As far as the French that he and my parents spoke people have to understand it was a language handed down from generation to generation. It was not learnt in schools when he was a kid. His favorite whiskey was 10 High and Aunt Ella Mae would fix him a drink with iced water and a little sugar. CHER CHEESE as he was affectionately called by friends and family.Bon Sois

[cajuncole1]

Cheese was my parin and his stepdaughter Linda my nanin, His mother was my grandmother's only full blooded sister. Cheese used to give me beer so I would go to sleep because I would chase the ducks to watch them swim. I have a many a fond memory at his house as a kid and we ate many good meals at his house or his mothers. Cheese's fiddle was made by a son of Matiss the man who supposedly taught Straavarius. Cheese played in dance halls in Eunice, Mamou, Bazille and other small towns.

[groslaiddu92]

You're right.

[Ricepatch1]

@groslaiddu92 He is speaking Cajun. Not French.