Food Day
Great Harvest Bread Co
Cafe Cohen
October 24, 2011 Monday
Christine Balfa Powell, Anya Burgess, Kristi Guillory
Christine Balfa & Friends played after 3pm
I heard these girls before I saw them, love/Love the sound of a fiddle...
girl behind the bread samples counter inside the shop told me it was like having Cajun Royalty out there - as she's the grand daughter of 'the' Balfa (whom I'd not heard of but didn't want to spoil it, got to go Google him yet...am guessing he's a fiddler player too)
Link to all about Dewey Balfa--Yes, a Cajun Fiddler...how did I know that...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Balfa
(note: never saw the movie Southern Comfort either, now curious - can I rent it & just fast forward to the Cajun Fiddler part, hmmm...)
What he said...
"We are here to tell you a little bit about what a Cajun is. A Cajun is a person who his homeland was France. Went into Nova Scotia, at the time Acadia, and settled there and was there for about a hundred years, and afterwards the British took over the territory and then the French-speaking people, the French descendants, known as the Acadians, came down to the South-Western part of Louisiana, and that was back in 1755. So over all of these years, your language, and your music has been preserved from daddy to son or daddy to daughter or momma to daughter."
And what did he pass on to his 5 Children? I'm sure music, if not a fiddle...
Link to Christine Blafa Powell...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Balfa
(note: totally did not know she started Bonsoir Catin & I have their CD & love it?! Oh my the little circles that go 'round & 'round in Cajunland...nevermind or I'll be singing It's a Small Cajun World Afterall...)
Link to Bonsoir Catin Facebook page...
http://www.facebook.com/BonsoirCatin
Link to their webpage...
http://www.bonsoircatin.com/
(note: It's on my Must Do's for While I'm Living in Lafayette List--Go See/Hear Bonsoir Catin!! They'll be at the Giant Omelette Festival in November & then Mulates & Cafe des Amis, all before the end of this year so I still have a chance Hey?!)
Bonsoir Catin poster from their webpage & this is what the cover of their CD has on it too...
(how do I know? 'cause I own it!)
Link to a YouTube - Bonsoir Catin playing at Cafe des Amis, where I can go see them soon (Yeess!)
http://youtu.be/1W10jQxEfbU
Donations/Tips for the day went to Acadiana Food Circle
this a photo of their sign from Great Harvest Bread Co's webpage
Link to them directly...
www.acadianafoodcircle.org
854A Kaliste Saloom Road
Lafayette, Louisiana 70508
337-236-8966
Link to webpage...
http://www.greatharvestofacadiana.com/community_events.htm
Link to Bread Blog...
http://www.greatharvestofacadiana.com/_blog/Bread_Blog/calendar/2011/10/
Link to Facebook page...
http://www.facebook.com/greatharvestofacadiana
Link to Cafe Cohen - coffeeshop inside Great Harvest Bread Co...
http://www.cafecohen.com/
(note: who gave all their tips for the day to the Acadiana Food Circle too?!)
Link to the Official Food Day webpage...
http://foodday.org/
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Boudin Cookoff
Poster (some piggy fun) from webpage...
http://www.boudincookoff.com/
my choice at the winner--fried boudin w/blackberry sauce...
from the boudin cooking folks up/over/down in Cottonport or was it Cottonmouth - I was blinded by my tastebuds, going gaga over the savory/sweet thang in my mouth at the time, so totally missed reading their tent sign (just know I paid $3 bucks for these babies & they were well worth it...mmm...lick fingers...mmm...)
a few of the 'other' samples of boudin links or boudin balls from 'other' tents...
one has brown rice, one is with crawfish & one is a boudin ball & others may be regular or smoked - sadly at the very beginning I lost track of what boudin was from what tent?! Good thing I was 'not' a judge, nor did I vote for any--because it wouldn't of been fair...
from the Boudin Cookoff webpage...a bigger photo & selection of How you can order/eat boudin - big links, little links, balls & with 'you name it' added to the rice & spices inside the sausage casings also...there are also boudin poboys, not shown & those fried boudin wedges with blackberry sauce that I was lucky enough to try & I'm sure locally they've thought of a whole bunch of other ways to eat boudin too...
Awards of the Day...
People’s Choice
*the one I didn't vote on
First Place
T-Boy’s Boudin and Cracklin (Mamou and Eunice)
Second Place
NuNu’s (Youngsville and Milton)
Band for the day while I was there...
The Howdies
(note: loved their old suitcase at the edge of the stage with their band name painted on the side - like they were an old vaudeville act back in the day...nice touch/detail...)
Link to their coming soon webpage link...
http://thehowdies.com/
(note: but still a list of Upcoming Shows so see Nov 12th they're back in Lafayette at Artmosphere)
Link to their Facebook page...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/THE-HOWDIES/127479325341
(note: not one photo of that Suitcase though, shoulda took a quick pick of it--but my hands were full of boudin samples?!)
Note:
Have you noticed a theme yet? In Lafayette, In Louisiana--if there is Food, there is Music...
you could as well as if there is Food & Music--there 'is' Dancing?!
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Red Baraat
Dhol 'n Brass
World Music
AcA's flyer @The Center Red Baraat
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Acadiana Center for the Arts
101 W. Vermillion Street, Lafayette, LA 70501
8:00-9:30 PM
Tickets: $20
*misprint, our tickets were $14 & members were less, as were student tickets
Link to AcA webpage event info...
http://acadianacenterforth
Link to article: AcA Presents Red Baraat, Rounding Out the World at the Center Series
http://www.americantowns.com/la/lafayette/news/aca-presents-red-baraat-rounding-out-the-world-at-the-center-series-7155768
All the Red Baraat Band Members...
Sunny Jain - Dhol / MC
Rohin Khemani - Percussion
Aaron McLendon - Drumset
Alex Hamlin - Soprano Saxophone
Sonny Singh - Trumpet / Vox
MiWi La Lupa - Bass Trumpet / Vox
Ernest Stuart - Trombone
John Altieri - Sousaphone / Rap
(note: they did not all perform at AcA & now I'm asking myself what's a Vox? & took me a sec to go Oh yeah--that's a Tuba right?!)
Link to webpage...
http://www.redbaraat.com/
Link to Facebook page...
http://www.facebook.com/redbaraatfans
Link to their Event: Coming Back to NOLA & Lafayette, LA...
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=289172744427674
(note: after they were here in Lafayette for the Int'l Festival - which is where I heard them first...but now I have a CD to listen to & remember what they look like/feel like live--it's hard to stay still when you hear them/see them...)
Link to a YouTube they chose for their webpage homepage...
http://youtu.be/Lxv7ZZ9Mon0
Next Stop Voodoo Fest in NOLA...here an article & a link to Voodoo Fest 2011...
http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2011/10/red_baraat_to_mix_up_the_music.html
The Advertiser newspaper online photo of Red Baraat performing Thurs night at AcA theater...
http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?
And The Advertiser's article: Brass music by way of India...
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20111027/LIFESTYLE/110270302/Brass-music-by-way-India
photo (I know sad dark blurry) credit - all mine with my (I don't know how to use my) Droid phone...
after seeing what an iphone can do in action at a recent event, standing looking over someone else's shoulder I am shamed, impressed, feeling leftout, but as impoverished expat trailing non-working spouse, to date, cannot afford that upgrade at this point in time...sigh...can only hope that Droid will do better when it's time to upgrade my phone in July--totally another subject, nevermind... & I also know it's a FirstWorldProblem (just am not so sure either I want to be sucked into the i-world...)
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