Lapin Lapin
Cajun
& Creole Children’s Program
Resources
This
list of favorite resource links related to Lapin Lapin will grow
as we add to the lesson ideas. You can make lesson and link suggestions,
by contacting Jane Vidrine at fifi@magnoliasisters.com.
Louisiana
Voices Folklife in Education Project
Jane Vidrine is education coordinator for this project of the Louisiana
Folklife Program for the Louisiana Division for the Arts. She designs
curriculum and gives workshops for teachers all over Louisiana.
If you are interested in a workshop for your town, contact Louisiana
Voices.
Alan
Lomax Collection and Archive
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington
D.C. houses many of the original recordings made in Louisiana in
the 1930s by John and Alan Lomax. You can listen to some of them
at these websites.
Savoy
Music Center and Bluebird Press
For more CDs, publications and articles on Cajun music, the Savoy
Music Center web site offers lots of options.
Louisiana Heritage and Gifts
Lisa and Mitchell Reed’s website and store offer opportunities for
links to the Cajun music scene and music lessons.
Rounder
Records Group
Rounder records has been publishing Cajun music for many years,
publishing the Magnolia Sisters Chers Amis and Après Faire Le Hoogie
Boogie. They have a great Cajun and Zydeco music selection.
Arhoolie
Records
Records is the pioneer record label producing and distributing Cajun
and Creole music since the 1960s. The Magnolia Sisters first CD,
Prends Courage, is on Arhoolie. The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band and
the Savoy Family Band can also be found on Arhoolie.
The
UL Digital Folklore Archive
Some of the songs on Allons Chantez can be found at the UL Digital
Folklore Archive, housed in Dupré Library on the UL-Lafayette campus
at the Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism.
*Allons
Chantez is supported through a grant from the Louisiana Division
of the Arts Arts-in-Education program |
