Traditional Cajun Music
Traditional French Cajun folkmusic from the US. Mixed songs and tunes. Accordion, fiddle, guitar, percussion, bass, vocals. The northAmerican Acadian Cajun culture is disappearing. I am the last of my generation to speak the Cajun Language. I deliberately did not teach any of my four children to speak it. Thanks to our government, I was punished, spanked and made fun of by my teachers who wanted me to speak the QUEEN S ENGLISH . I was detained by U. S. Customs upon returning from overseas and accused of being a spy because of my ignorant country, thinking everyone in America speaks English or Spanish only. My heavy Cajun accent caused the agents to ask What are you doing in American Uniform, we have no French people in America . If you didn t learn Cajun at home, don t ruin it by trying to learn from a book. It is a spoken language only, books cannot teach you the correct pronunciation. Today our government is wasting taxpayer
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