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Baton Rouge - Cajun French Music Association Newsletter This is located at www.cajunradio.org/cajunfrenchmusicassociation.html November 2005 Issue President: Ralph Marino 10211 Copperleaf Dr., Baton Rouge, La 70816 Ph: 225-292-2778 email: rmarino [type the at sign] cort1.com Editor: Mike Humphries 1805 Carolyn Avenue Denham Springs, La. 70726 Ph: 225-791-8583 email: mikehumphries [type the at sign] earthlink.net Upcoming Band Schedule 2005 Where: American Legion Hall, 151 S Wooddale Blvd., Baton Rouge 70806 When: 7 pm, free lessons; Music begins at 8 pm; over at 10:30~11 pm, (The A.L. hall is approximately � mile west of Airline Highway at Florida Blvd. behind Pier One Imports) Nov. 11th Fri - Chris Miller and Bayou Roots cajun band www.bayouroots.com Nov. 18th Fri - *No Dance � Prior Am. Legion Booking Nov. 25th Fri - *No Dance � Happy Thanksgiving Dec. 2nd Fri - *No Dance � Prior Am. Legion Booking Dec. 9th Fri - Ward Lormand and D'Jalma Garnier with the Lucky Playboys www.luckyplayboys.com Dec. 16th Fri - Dennis Boudreaux, Paul Daigle and Savoir Faire cajun band * Please check www.ceezees.com for possible dance alternatives for the empty dates. CFMA membership Meetings -New Location! New Day! Details Below! Chapter meetings are held at the American Legion Hall (address above) on the SECOND Tuesday of the month, the Board meets at 7 pm followed by the General Membership meeting at 7:30pm. NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 at The American Legion Hall on Wooddale Blvd. This facility will provide a much more meeting-friendly environment. Let us all try and make the meeting and participate in the governing of our chapter. Very Special THANKS go to Bob Brunet and Brunet�s Cajun Restaurant for providing our meeting place over the years! Results of the Elections for the officers and board of the CFMA Effective Oct 2005 President: Ralph Marino Vice President: Jeanette Bizette Treasurer: Will Bonvillian Secretary: Clarence Moritz Sgt. at Arms: Vic Bellelo National Board Rep: Murel Achee Board Members (8): Elva Daigle Pearl Bellelo Mike Humphries Mark Edmonson John Pellerin Betty McDaniel Pat Walker Fay Taylor A very special THANKS to all those officers, board and committee members who served this past year! Cajun Radio Shows WYPY 100.7 FM Sat 5-7am (Cajun) Sat 7-10am (Swamp Pop) Roland @ 225.499.1007 KKAY 1590 AM Sat: 8-Noon-(Cajun) www.kkay1590.com Charles@ 225.473.5764 WBRH 90.3 FM � Sat: 7-8pm (Cajun) Clarence KBRH 1260AM � Sun: 12-2pm (Cajun/Zydeco) Clarence WYNK- Pu jamais -Gone- No More! Special Announcements A very special THANKS to all those officers, board and committee members who served this past year! Editor�s Note: Our Friday Night Dances at the American Legion Hall, located at 151 South Wooddale Blvd., are bringing in more new dancers than ever before (Highest Attendance: 306, Average Attendance: 223) where there have been at least 20 - 30 new participants taking part in the Free Dance Lessons! You know, if you can Walk you can Waltz, so please remember to invite all of your friends, relatives and acquaintances, whether or not they think they can or can�t dance, to join us in our Friday Night �Fais do do�! Les Danseurs de La Capitale de Baton Rouge are providing the lessons to newcomers and repeat learners for free! So put on your best dancing shoes, and come help us enjoy one another�s company. Remember: Free Dance lessons start at 7 pm, and the live music begins at 8 pm. So please invite all of your friends to our �New� Friday Night Dances! With over 300 in at our last dance, we now have an average attendance at the American Legion Hall, CFMA Friday Night Dances of 223. Thanks to all who attend for making our new venue a terrific success! This hall is strictly a NON- Smoking facility! Thank you for observing their policy! Copies of this document can be found online at https://www.ceezees.com. Please visit https://cajunfrenchmusic.org for more information concerning any and all of the CFMA chapters. Dance Troupe News: The dance troupe would like to express their appreciation and thanks to Elva Daigle for serving as their Director for the past two years. Elva and Harold have done a magnificent job of managing and leading the dance troupe and have represented the CFMA very well at all the troupe�s functions. We really appreciate their dedication and commitment and they will continue working and dancing with the troupe. We will be dancing for two retirement/nursing facilities in November. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Merci, Betty McDaniel Flowers/Sympathy/Get-well Cards: Vic Bellelo�s sister, Katherine Bonano, passed away Oct.13th . Please join us in our prayer effort for her family and continue to lift up the many Katrina and Rita victims, their families, and the thousands of displaced Louisianans as they attempt to regain some resemblance of normalcy in their lives. And as always please continue in prayer for all our troops and their families, Thanks! Please contact Vera Achee @ (225-357-5647) with information concerning members who are ill, hospitalized or those that have passed away. Queens Update - Colleen Busby 665-1977 after 5pm The committee to select a new queen is now taking applications for queen of our Baton Rouge Chapter. Contact Colleen Busby at familyhealthnursecolleen [type the at sign] hotmail.com or call for more information or visit www.ceezees.com/queensinfo.htm. Please share this information with anyone you think may qualify. Membership Drive: HELP! Call Mike Humphries @ 225.791.8583 if you can assist him in this effort. Jam Sessions: Every Wednesday night, in the Galvez area. For more information contact Kent Lavigne at 225.622.5705 / KLavigne [type the at sign] eatel.net Special Dates for November 2005: Happy Birthdays: John Pellerin-16th ; Myrna Thibodeaux-20th ; and Happy Birthday to all members our not specifically mentioned celebrating birthdays in November! Anniversaries: Jim and Betty McDaniel- Nov. 2; and Happy Anniversary to all our members not mentioned celebrating Anniversaries this month! To include your special date, contact Pearl Bellelo at vicandpearl [type the at sign] spillwaycable.com Cajun Heritage, by Maurice Lasserre (225.293.4848) Melon sent-bon, good smelling melon; wild green-striped melons about the size of golf balls that turn yellow in late summer. The vines, flesh, and seeds resemble that of cucumbers. They emit a pleasant odor and readily eaten by deer and rabbits. They�re called �smelling melons� or de sent-bon in New Orleans, and getting whacked by one stung much more than a snowball. Memere a dit, Grandma said, �Soit t�arrive pas ou tu depasses, Toujours que�ques sous qui manaquent pour faire la piaster, whether you don�t do enough (you fail) or you do too much (you excel), there�s always a few cents lacking to make up a dollar�. Meaning, in your endeavors, there always seems to be something lacking, something that could have been done better, or differently. From a recording by Jimmy Aguillard. Lache Pas, Maurice ***************************************************** September 2005 Issue Cajun Heritage, by Maurice Lasserre (225.293.4848) Passer du caf�, to pass (handout) coffee. Before air-conditioning, porches were favorite places to sit after supper, while waiting for bedrooms to cool down. Cajuns usually built their houses so at least one porch was shaded in late afternoons, where friends could visit and talk, play music or listen to prize fights on the radio. The lady of the house always served coffee, and the cups were �passed out� until everybody had their own cup. Because a pot only held so much coffee, it was dripped strong and black, and this helped to make up for the small swallow that you would get (tite goutte). Listen to Hadley Castile talk about this on his CD about �The Sharecropper�s House�. Lache Pas, Maurice ***************************************************** August 2005 Issue Cajun Heritage, by Maurice Lasserre (225.293.4848) Cajuns and Coal-Oil Huile de lampe, or huile a� charbon (lamp or coal oil), and a gallon was only a nickel. We used kerosene for lighting, cooking and heating. It was dabbed on cuts and bruises, on the harness sores of draft animals to kill maggots, rubbed on dogs for fleas, or on children�s hair to kill nits, in an emulsion of soapy water (lavement) for pin worms, and a drop or two in honey for coughs. Old engines ran better on a gasoline-kerosene mixture than on diesel. Help us name this device that was used to fool ants. Large sewing needles were spaced to allow single ants to cross, but if several ants met while crossing, they invariably fell into the kerosene. Set near fig trees, the trap killed ants by the cupful. Lache Pas, Maurice Please listen to Clarence's Cajun radio programs in Baton Rouge. Saturdays 7pm-8pm on WBRH 90.3 FM Sundays noon-2pm on KBRH 1260 AM Clarence needs your help - read a message from Clarence here. |
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CFMA Baton Rouge www.ceezees.com
www.tigeru.com
Rodney Thibodeaux Tout Les Soir Cajun Band
www.leebenoit.com
www.boudincajunband.com/
The Red Stick Ramblers
John Richard and De Ja Vu
Kevin Naquin & the Ossun Playboys
Jay Cormier and Country Cajuns
www.choupique.com
The BlueRunners
www.rhythmcitymag.com
www.brunetscajunrestaurant.com
www.varsitytheatre.com