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Archive Home > 2007 > January > 05 > Cajun to the core

Cajun to the core

BeauSoleil's music is rooted in the soil of Louisiana

By Ben Salmon / The Bulletin
January 5, 2007

BeauSoleil is perhaps the world's best-known Cajun band, formed three decades ago in the heart of southern Louisiana.

"Seems like yesterday," says Michael Doucet, the band's founder and fiddler extraordinaire.

But it's a long time. Over three decades, people pass away. Entire cultures....

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