RE: Fwd: Cajun harmonica/harp_L archive

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

- --- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Hambone Hamilton" 
<harpmanx@xxxx> wrote:

>>The work of Arteleus Mistric and of Isom Fontenot would have to
>>figure prominently in any discussion of Cajun harmonica.
>>
>>Winslow
>
>  Alas, I'm totally ignorant of both of these names.  Could you list 
>  some recordings that they're on , Winslow?

A Google search on either of these names will bring up what you're 
looking for, and even some brief sound samples.

Mistric recorded only two tunes in the 1920s or '30's, while Fontenot 
recorded both as a commercial artist and was recorded extensively by 
Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie as a folk musician. Both these artists 
are true Cajuns (i.e. Acadiens, whose French-speaking ancestors came 
from Acadie in what is now Nova Scotia) in the French tradition, as 
opposed to blues musicians operating under the label of Cajun. 
Nothing against the cajun/blues mix, but these two musicians embody  
something very different from what many people imagine "cajun" to be -
 it has a medieval quality to it due the the very old origins of 
their repertoire in France.

Winslow