Hailing from South Louisiana, the Pine Leaf Boys are, according to the New York Times, “the core of a renaissance in Cajun and Creole music. After years of recycled arrangements and graying performers and listeners, Acadiana’s dance halls are suddenly filled with young musicians, young dancers and a hard-rocking approach to the old acoustic instruments.” The members, all in their twenties, play traditional Cajun and Creole music with a fresh, rousing twist which earned them a Grammy nomination.
Says the NYT, “A spell was cast, combining a mysterious past — the nearly forgotten dialect and the archaic squeezebox’s red bellows — with an unabashed rock ’n’ roll energy conducive to the elbow-flying, hip-swiveling spirit on the dance floor.”
Wisconsin Union
