Bayou n' Brooklyn Music Festival

Christine Balfa

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Christine Balfa is one of Cajun music’s most talented and revered vocalists and guitar players. She began playing music as a teenager with her father, Dewey Balfa, and has continued her family legacy in a major way. She plays the guitar in the rhythmic style of her uncle Rodney Balfa and sings with so much emotion that it is not uncommon to see her eyes mist over when she sings a powerful, sad Jesse Lege waltz.…

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Ed Poullard

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Ed Poullard hails from Eunice, LA, and is known for being one of the few Creole fiddlers still carrying on in the tradition of the late Canray Fontenot, and Bebe Carriere and is one of the last remaining links to that generation of musicians.…

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Megan Brown

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Megan Brown (guitar, vocals) Megan Brown, is from Tepetate, LA and grew up to the sound of Cajun music at her grandparent’s restaurant, singing in French language and playing Cajun guitar. She had worked with such musicians as The Pine Leaf Boys, The Lafayette Rhythm Devils, Ryan Brunet and Les Malfecteurs, and Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, performing at many cultural events, including Festivals Acadiens et Creoles, Folk Roots Balfa Camp, Festival International, the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival, The Cajun and Zydeco Festival of Germany, and many more. She is currently an active member of T’Monde, Les Bassettes and Briggs Brown and the Bayou Cajuns.…

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