Louisiana. Music. Culture.
We’re proud to have finally worked with these girls – they are changing people’s perceptions about the role of women in Cajun music, and music in general. Just in time for their fantastic latest release—Vive L’Amour—we bring you our June AOM, Bonsoir Catin!
June Artist of the Month: Bonsoir Catin
Lafayette, LA (June 26) — Valcour Records and the Lafayette location of the Tipitina’s Music Office Co-op (at 510 Johnston Street) are joining forces to present a songwriting and production contest during the month of July. Valcour, operating on their belief that the Lafayette area is chock full of talent, approached Tipitina’s about the contest a couple of months ago as an opportunity for the two organizations to nurture and incentivize a healthy local music culture.
Tipitina’s Co-op, a tech access center providing business development and job skills training for local musicians, filmmakers and other digital media professionals, will serve as host to the contest, in which artists are allowed only 3 hours to record a song as an entry. The artist submitting the winning track will be awarded $200, a feature on the Valcour Records website, and a spot on the upcoming Valcour Records Lafayette music scene compilation due out later this year.
This is the first album in the Valcour Records Artist Series.
Often times, Cajun music fans find themselves skipping ahead to the twin fiddles track on their favorite album. This is not because its the only track they love, but because there is something special about the harmonic fiddles that resonates, literally, somewhere deep within. It presents a sound that is unique to Cajun music, and in Louisiana we can feel it in our blood, and it creates a sound track for our identity.
Continue reading ‘Linzay Young and Joel Savoy (Self-Titled)’
Ladies and Gentlemen, the new Bonsoir Catin album, Vive L’Amour, is finally here! Well, at least it will be here on June 15th…
You can pre-order it now from our CD Store and we will ship it to you just as soon as it arrives.
As promised, we are also offering two bonus tracks for you to download free, right here:
La Valse de Tolan
Mama Rosin
This month we’re bringing you Cajun music from Geneva! Bébébelge does a fantastic jobn of interpreting Cajun music from a different perspective. It made us proud enough to feature their sound in our May Artist of the Month feature!
May Artist of the Month: Bébébelge
Cody Daigle at the Times of Acadiana wrote a great story about Valcour that graced the cover of the news magazine last week. The article includes an in depth interview with Joel Savoy and Lucius Fontenot—2/3 of the Valcour founding partners—as well as a few reviews of Valcour releases at the end.
You can read the story on the magazines website here.
All Things Considered sees the light
Melissa Block interviews Chas Justus, genius producer behind Christine Balfa Plays the Triangle, about the importance of the Triangle to humanity, our culture, and Pythagorus.
Listen to the full story here.
Jerry O'Connell and Lauren Stamile get saucy over a "cornbread courtesy call" in Nora Roberts' Midnight Bayou
Do you like hot and heavy Louisiana romance? Do you like ghost stories? Do you believe in reincarnation?
Then you will LOVE Nora Roberts’ Midnight Bayou on Lifetime TV!
Seriously, the title track from Goin’ Down to Louisiana made its second movie appearance in this movie based on a Nora Roberts romance novel. The movie, also starring Faye Dunaway, was filmed in New Orleans and at Oak Alley Plantation on River Road. It is second in a series of four Roberts adaptations appearing on Lifetime this spring.
You can watch the movie online here (the song actually plays in the first 30 seconds), or you can purchase the collection on iTunes here.
Christine Balfa; photo by Lucius Fontenot
The Independent Weekly’s Reese Fuller has caught on to the uncanny success Christine Balfa is having from her chart-pulverizing album, Plays the Triangle, out on Valcour Records.
“Seven hours after listening to Plays the Triangle, your hearing returns to normal, your vision clears up, that rash disappears, and you feel – strangely enough – both refreshed and violated. ”
Read the full article here.
The results are in! We got some very cool entries in the remix contest for our latest release, Christine Balfa Plays the Triangle. A big thanks to all who submitted, but unfortunately we only have room for the best…and here they are in our latest Artist of the Month Feature!
Artwork from : Balfa Waltz (Tabastard Squarehole Remix)
