Fleur de Lis cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons fleur de lis ifiddle ifiddlemag lafayette louisiana mardi gras Feb 23, 2018

Hi! Welcome to my vlog. Today I want to talk a little bit about a musician that influenced me a lot. I’m not really sure where he is. It’s kind of an interesting story. When I first started playing the fiddle, when I was about 14 so probably the late 80’s, there was a character...

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Edius Naquin beausoleil cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music edius naquin fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana mamou old ballads Feb 15, 2018

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That is a tune by Eidus Naquin, a legendary musician from Mamou, Louisiana. He sang a lot of old ballads and played a lot of old really obscured archaic tunes with very interesting stories about kings, queens, magical worlds, and things like that. Definitely some ties to France...

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Adner Ortego’s Spanish Two-Step adner ortego adner ortego’s spanish two-step cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag lafayette louisiana two step two step cajun Sep 26, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed and welcome to my vlog. My vlog today is on an old friend of mine who taught me a lot about Cajun fiddle when I was young. He was almost really like a grandfather to me but also a very good friend.

His name was Adner Ortego and he was from Grand...

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Wallace “Cheese” Read Medley Breakdown cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cheese read fiddle lessons french jig ifiddle ifiddlemag jigs louisiana mamou reels wallace “cheese” read medley breakdown May 02, 2017

Hi! I’m Mitch Reed. My vlog this week is on the legendary Cajun fiddler Cheese Read from Mamou, Louisiana, and he’s a distant cousin of mine, and the Reads were Scotch-Irish people who came down to Louisiana during the Spanish Land Grants. A lot of Scotch Irish came down at that time...

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Seconding at a Cajun Jam accordion bowing c accordion cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun jam cajun music cajun tuning fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana occasional blues seconding at a cajun jam two step cajun Jan 20, 2017

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed, welcome to my vlog. Today I’m going to talk about going to a jam and being able to bring your fiddle and play chords behind the accordion, the singer, and all that stuff. So basically, how to second at a Cajun jam, the things to think about, and what to look for....

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Tuning Your Fiddle in Winter cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana tuning your fiddle in winter Jan 08, 2017

Hi! Welcome to my vlog. Today I wanted to discuss a couple of things about fiddle maintenance. We are in the beginning part of January and in Southwest Louisiana we have a lot of cold fronts that come through but it gets hot then cold, hot and cold, and recently a lot of my students have been...

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Cajun & Creole Polkas b flat cajun & creole polkas cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cajun polka cajun waltz creole polka dennis mcgee fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana two step cajun Nov 07, 2016

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed and today my vlog is on the Cajun & Creole polka. Definitely a type of dance that has died out down here in Louisiana. I don’t know anybody who can dance the Cajun polka or Creole polka. But it definitely was played and the old people that were recorded playing...

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Loving Your Fiddle cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana loving your fiddle Jul 19, 2016

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…Welcome to The Vlog! Today I thought I would talk a little bit about something that I get a lot of questions about. Doesn’t have a whole lot to do with actually playing the fiddle but it’s just keeping up your fiddle.

Sometimes you might notice when...

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Allons à Appalachia allons à appalachia appalachia cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music cajun tune dennis mcgee fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana old time cajun Jun 24, 2016

Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…welcome to my Vlog! Today I wanted to tell a little bit of a story about what I just finished doing. I went on a trip with Michael Doucet and David Doucet. We went to Appalachia and we got together with a guy named Chester McMillan and he was Tommy Jarrell’s...

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Tapping Your Feet cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music fiddle lessons louisiana tapping your feet Apr 27, 2016

[0:01] Hello there! You can’t see my face because I have the camera focused on my feet… Today's vlog is on tapping your foot while playing your fiddle. A lot of people have asked me questions about it so I thought I would do a vlog on it and just basically explain what I do and how...

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The Scotch-Irish Connection cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana st. patricks day the scotch-irish connection Apr 10, 2016

It’s the week of St. Patrick’s day and I thought it might be a little interesting to talk about the Irish influence in Cajun music or some people call it Scotch-Irish, Scotch-Irish being more of the people who settled the Appalachian mountains from Northern Ireland. And, we also did...

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Bigfoot Reel bigfoot bigfoot reel fiddle lessons lafayette louisiana Mar 30, 2016

That was a tune called “The Bigfoot Reel” and I wrote this tune after being chased out of the woods at my family camp right outside of Melville, Louisiana, by a Sasquatch or a Bigfoot. I didn’t really know what it was at the time and did some research and found out that’s...

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