Louis Cathedral echoed with the music of Edmond Dédé Friday, Jan. 24. This is over a hundred years after it was written. Dédé was a New Orleans-born free creole of color, who composed music in ...
Louisiana is entwined with the spirit of Creole and Cajun cultures. “Cajun" is a derivative of Acadian. The Acadians were French colonists who were expelled by the British from Nova Scotia and French ...
While it’s impossible to say how many were of Creole descent, “what can be said is that music was important to ... at Lafayette’s Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore.