A Cajun Christmas at the Holiday with Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys

This season has featured surf Christmas music, calypso Christmas
music, Sicilian Christmas music and smooth jazz Christmas music,
so it can't be too much of a surprise that we finally get to
Cajun Christmas music. I think Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
are an important band as they picked up the work of maintaining
endangered musical traditions that was started by a generation
before him, and he influenced the generation that followed by
finding contemporary ways to express those traditions.


In today's interview, we talk about Feufollet's Chris Stafford,
who I wrote about shortly after he died at My Spilt Milk.


When I played "Silent Night" by Harry Fontenot, I didn't identify
it. It's from the album Merry Cajun Christmas.


I also mentioned that you can find Riley's Party at the Holiday,
All Night Long and other contemporary Cajun music at
ValcourRecords.com.


If you're interested in taking Cajun accordion lessons from
Steve, you can reach him through his Facebook page or the Contact
info at MamouPlayboys.com.