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Cajun musicians are a colorful, immensely talented lot whose fame is just beginning to reach beyond the bayous and prairies of backcountry Louisiana. Among them are the scholarly accordionist Mark Savoy; guitar virtuoso Sonny Landreth; Michael Doucet, the leader of the fiery Cajun band Beausoleil; and Zydeco players like Keith Frank, Geno Delafose and Terrance Simien, whose dynamic marriage of white Cajun and black Delta blues offers a thrilling alternative to rap and processed...
...preservation of a folk tradition that nearly expired during the region's Americanization in the 1950s owes much to accordionist Savoy, 54. The godfather of the Cajun revival, he hosts a weekly Cajun jam session in the front room of the music store he has operated since 1966 in Eunice, a small town (pop. 11,000) northwest of Lafayette. A master craftsman who builds 75 to 100 accordions a year, some of them costing up to $1,400, Savoy is a purist who prefers French to English, forbids amplification at his jam sessions and plasters the walls of his workshop...
...Lady of Spain. T.D.A.! even threatened to "play" in city hall but was prevented from doing so when engineers warned that the building might collapse from excessive vibration. Instead, it was the board of supervisors that collapsed. "One of the things I love about San Francisco," said T.D.A. ! accordionist J. Raoul Brody, "is that a bunch of dopes like us can get together and make something like this happen...
...pennant-festooned high school gymnasium in the imaginary Midwestern town of Oil City, four musicians who grandly call themselves the Oil City Symphony have come together for a reunion concert. There is Mark the pianist and accordionist, a geek with glasses in a white dinner jacket and purple slacks who is also the minister of music at his church; Debbie the drummer, an ex- prom queen in a strapless gown who exchanges one pink pump for a running shoe, the better to thump her bass drum; Mary the violinist, of stern Scandinavian stock, uptight, humorless and "best remembered locally...
...accordionist said yesterday the license will protect performers from the "hassle of policemen forcing them to move and relocate," but others argued that they should not have to pay the license fee because they perform a service to the city...