The Creole Belles with Andrew Carriere – Cajun and Creole Traditional Dance Music / ARH CD-535

Description

Creole Belles
“Cajun and Creole Traditional Music”
with Andrew Carrière
CD 535

The Creole Belles are distinguished by the high-energy traditional fiddle style of Delilah who has been playing Cajun music for the 27 years and has studied with many of the great Cajun and Creole musicians including Denis McGee Canray Fontenot and Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin Dewey Balfa and Michael Doucet.

In 1995 she joined with accordionist Maureen Karpan and established musicians Karen Leigh and Karen Celia Heil to bring the traditional sounds of Creole music to Cajun and zydeco fans in the Bay Area. With fiddle and accordion fronting the band and upright bass rubboard and guitar providing solid rhythm they entertain crowds with traditional down home Cajun and Creole dance music.

Special guest Andrew Carrière comes from a long line of traditional Creole musicians. The son of Bébé Carrière he was raised in Louisiana and brought his formidable musical background to California where he now resides.
Creole Belles is their first album.

1. Bernadette
2. Zydeco Tous Pas Tous
3. Dimanche Apres-Midi
4. Medley Carriere
5. Domino/Will Bolfa Medley
6. Wade’s Blues
7. Adieu Rosa
8. Tes Parents Ne Veulent Plus Me Voir
9. Tit Galop Pour La Pointe Aux Pins/You Act Sick When Your Man is Home
10. Valse a Cathleen
11. L’Homme Cajun Travaille ‘Si Dur
12. Reve de Soulard
13. Johnnie Billy Goat
14. Valse a Pop
15. La Talle des Ronce
16. La Valse Minuit
17. Hee Haw/Scott Playboy Special
18. Creole Belles

REVIEW

“When I spun the Creole Belles’ eponymous CD on the player in my kitchen the opening bars of ‘Bernadette’ threatened to shake the crockery from the shelves…in-your-face and murderously rhythmic…The good-time feel sense of style and sheet earthiness make this a fun listen.”

– fROOTS