this month on the coop:

Cajun Åland & Lo å Lä

Hello out there, Coop-ers! Hope everyone is doing well and settling in to the change in the seasons — you wouldn’t quite know it from the weather down here yet, but there’s about to be a shift in the energy as we prepare for Festivals Acadiens et Créoles in just a couple short weeks! Always one of our favorite times of the year, and we hope that if you’re in the area, you’ll plan to join us for our annual Coop member appreciation party on Oct 9th at the Sidecar in Lafayette (more info on that below!). However, September wasn’t so quiet for one of our Coop producers, Kelli Jones, who spent the majority of the month on tour in Scandinavia with a very special collaborative project between Louisiana and Swedish / Finnish musicians pioneered by our featured artist today, Thor Ahlgren. In 2024 and 2025, Thor recorded two special albums of collaborative music here in Louisiana that featured many familiar local faces as well as many musicians from his local Sweden and from Finland, entitled ‘Lo å Lä’ and ‘Cajun Åland’ - and this September they had the opportunity to perform those songs live for audiences across Scandinavia. So here for this month’s feature, Kelli takes us on an exclusive back-stage look at these unique projects, the recent tour and all of the band’s musical adventures!