What happens when you bring award-winning Cajun musicians and talented amateurs together to record a ten-song album of all-original tunes in Cajun French written by fiddle-playing transplants from Virginia and Switzerland?

Magic happens. And an album titled Madame Zin Zin after a Créole Traiteur (Healer) from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
With the likes of Jimmy Breaux (BeauSoleil, Jimmy Breaux Trio) on accordion and drums, Megan Brown Constantin (T’Monde, Boma Bango) on rhythm guitar and vocals, Blake Miller (The Revelers, Blake Miller and the Old Fashioned Aces) on vocals, fiddle and pedal steel, you have Grammy Award winning and Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalists and vocalists bringing their considerable talents to the recording studio (and various living rooms and kitchens for rehearsal sessions.)

When you add Amelia Biere (Blake Miller and the Old Fashioned Aces, Millie and the Mayberries) on vocals, rhythm guitar and fiddle, Joel Breaux (La Recolte, The Potluck Band) on vocals, fiddle and accordion, Johnny Daigle, Susanne Giezendanner and Doug Schroeder (The Potluck Band) on bass, fiddle and fiddle along with a handful of super talented local musicians like Glenn Fields (The Revelers, Boma Bango), Phil Kaelin (The Has Beans) and Canadian accordionist and vocalist Marie-Laure Boudreau, well, then you’ve really got some serious talent working (with a year plus off for the Pandemic) towards a beautiful and clever work of musical art.

With songs like Mariée 2-Step (the Married 2-Step, about hope, dreams and courage), La Courtise des Ours, (The Courtship of the Bears, about courtship, love and the simple things in life, Accidentally Well Dressed, (A classic country song about falling in love on the dance floor), or Johnny Peut Pas Cuire, (Johnny Can’t Cook, about the cuisine-challenged Cajun man who couldn’t cook a lick but his friends loved him anyway) the CD Madame Zin Zin carries the listener through a tropical storm of great music, poignant, humerous and socially conscious lyrics and right out onto the dance floor.

And here’s a great article about the making of this CD by music writer Dominick Cross and his Bayou Hack Press:
https://bayouhackpress.com/2020/11/26/

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