Friday, May 7, 2021

 A Cajun Christmas

What do I know about Christmas in CajunLand, which is what we call that area of Louisiana which surrounds the city of Lafayette and heads off into the bayous and prairies of South. It was mostly an economy of farmers and fisherfolk who emigrated from France, primarily but not immediately. Many of them had first emigrated from France to Eastern Canada — Nova Scotia/Acadia — went back to the Poitou district of France, and eventually found their way to Louisiana in the mid-eighteenth century. There were other ways of getting to Louisiana but the most historically dominant way was France-Acadia-Louisiana. The name Cajun is derived from the word Acadian. 

A Cajun Christmas is a song or a one-hour radio program in English with Cajun accents. Monty Brown produced the program for Red River Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana, and it was first aired in 1991.


 



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