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April in Louisiana! The magnolias are finally blooming, and everyone seems to be out on their porch, in the streets, and celebrating the Spring. With Balfa Week and segueing directly into Festival International de Louisiane, there’s not much time to catch your breath in April - but that makes it one of the best months to visit or to be lucky enough to life here in the Lafayette Louisiana area. During Festival, downtown Lafayette becomes completely transformed. Walking from stage to stage and seeing friends, family, and music, food, and crafts from across the world is an experience like no other (improved upon by the fact that it’s all FREE of course!). This year, we had musical acts from Jamaica, Sudan, Guatamala, Peru, Guinea, South Africa, Mexico, Scotland, South Korea, Columbia, Cuba, Mali, and of coruse … Louisana! But every year, one cultural connection always stands out - that with our relatives to the North in Acadia (modern day New Brunswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and PEI in Canada). With our histories intertwined and our musical traditions so rich, hosting Acadian musicians at Festival International is always special, and we aim to keep exchanges and communication between the two places going year round. So this month, we’re highlighting a special event that happened during Festival that helps us do just that! Allons!
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Released in 2025
With T’Monde’s fourth album and third on Valcour, Petit Paradis, the band once again shows its dynamic and its incomparable take on traditional songs from French Louisiana. With their beautiful musicianship and unmistakable harmonies, the band brings to life lost ballads, forgotten two steps and retired waltzes. The band casts beautiful new takes on songs such as “ You’re So easy to love”, “Je Me suis Marié” and “Ou t’étais mercredi passé ?”.Their unmatched vocal harmonies shine on “Renaud le tueur de femmes”, “O Rossignol Sauvage” and Balfa Toujours’ “Deux Voyages” while new life is breathed into Country classics such as “J’ai vu ta figure dans la lune” and Merle Haggard’s “I’ve got a yearning”. The album is rounded out with “Tante Altie Two Step” and “On Parle de lamour on Parle de la vie”, two originals by Kelli Jones. The album gets its title from the heartfelt “On parle dé l’amour on parle de la vie”, expressing a small piece of heaven sharing times with friends because the future comes too quick.
Three people, three instruments and three voices. That is what T’Monde has always been. Petit
Paradis is just another fine example of how these three people with such distinct musical styles can come together and make such a powerful, yet beautiful sound.
To honor the legacy of Clifton Chenier – AKA The King of Zydeco – on what would have been his 100th birthday, we’ve gathered an all star cast of Louisiana musicians and global household names like The Rolling Stones, Lucinda Williams, Taj Majal, Steve Earle, and more to honor Clifton’s influence and his uncanny ability to unite traditionalists, rock ‘n’ rollers and Louisiana with the rest of the world. We hope you enjoy our tribute to the undisputed King of Zydeco, recorded in Lafayette, Louisiana where even the “crawfish got soul!
All profits from the sale of this album will be donated to the Clifton Chenier Memorial Scholarship Fund, created by Valcour Records with the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The fund will offer annual financial assistance to students studying Traditional Music, specifically Zydeco accordion, at the university.
Released in 2024
A note from K.C. Jones:
Last December we took a field trip to set up and record out at Chicot State Park, one of the results is this new track from K.C. Jones, “The Only Me to Talk to Blues”. K.C. Jones, Joel Savoy, Chris Stafford, Trey Boudreaux, Jim Kolacek, Megan Constantin, and Leah Graeff come together once again to bring this dreamy track alive.
Released in 2023
After taking the Louisiana music scene by storm in 2018, Jourdan Thibodeaux et Les Rôdailleurs have developed a reputation for pairing ancient traditions with incomparable energy. Preserving a culture while pioneering its advancement, Grammy Award winning and nominated musicians Joel Savoy, Cedric Watson, and Alan Lafleur, join Adam Cormier in bringing Jourdan’s stories to life.
Known for his authenticity, and being one of the few young people speaking Cajun French today, Jourdan Thibodeaux has been called “the future of cajun music” by Acadiana Profile Magazine. “It’s all very honest and real,” says Offbeat Magazine in regards to the all original tracks that he writes about his life in Cypress Island, Louisiana.
The highly anticipated sophomore album continues to deliver la vérité.
From headlining Festivals Acadiens et Creoles, to Jazz Fest in New Orleans, to SXSW, to the Congrès Mondial in Canada, Les Rôdailleurs have surely earned their name.
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