Posts tagged ‘Marc Savoy’
Savoy Music Center ~ Saturday AM Jam
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Savoy Music Center ~ Saturday Morning Jam
Saturdays at 9 AM for the paset 46 years.
Our third year through Eunice, Lousiana and the Acadiana region.
Marc Savoy’s and Family (Ann, Joel ( of the Red Stick Ramblers ), & Wilson Savoy ( of the Pine Leaf Boys )) Savoy Music Center five miles or so east of the Acadiana town of Eunice, Louisiana has hosted a Cajun Music Jam every Saturday morning for the past 46 years.
This particular Saturday morning’s cast of characters was characterized by the give-and-take of youth and experience :
Youthful Exuberance and Energy Rubs Up Against the Constancy of Experience and Mastery ~ Everyone Benefits
Prominently on display:
This jam session is not intended as a showcase for talent or the lack thereof.
It is intended to be led by the older generation of master musicians offering beginners an opportunity to listen, learn and play in the background.
It has been like this for 46 years and will continue as such.
As such, living Cajun music history is present in the moment.
Miss Esther Lejeune
Mr Harry Lafleur
Mr Freddie Hanks
Mr Robert Leblanc
Mr Milton Vanicor
“Listen, Lean and Play”
Links To Other Cajun Music Posts Of Note
Cajun Campground Jam (2014)
Milton Vanicor & Zachery Fuselier Gallery
Saturday Morning Jam ~ Savoy Music Center (2012)
Savoys’ Music Center ~ Saturday Jam (2011)
Saturday Morning Jam ~ Savoy Music Center
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Its 9 AM the Saturday morning of Mardi Gras weekend at Savoy’s Music Center outside of Eunice in St Landry Parish Louisiana.
And its raining: pouring buckets, coming and going in sheets and waves, never truly letting up.
Tornado and flood warnings are being broadcast and still they come: Cajun musicians, young and old alike, multiple generations and an audience that appreciates the music and musicians of Acadiana.
The front room of Marc Savoy’s Music Center quickly fills up with damp musicians and a damp but eager audience
Good warm boudin, fresh beignets and hot coffee are on hand but they are not the real attraction.
Miss Esther Lejeune
Milton Vanicur ~ 94 Years Young
An accordion player (never more than one center stage), folks that can both sing and recollect the words, fiddle players, guitar players, the youthful and gifted piano player, a pedal steel player, a triangle player or two (nobody was enforcing the rule of no more than one); all up front.
No amplification; no amplification needed!
The audience came and went very little and swelled quickly to fill the chairs and space in the room. Locals and folks from away. Musicians got seating preference. There seemed to be an unstated recognition among the musicians of one’s talent and skill by whether one was accorded up front facing the audience seating in the music circle. You earned your seat and access to it. Deference was paid in kind and subtle ways to those musicians that had put in their time, so to speak, and knew the old French Acadian tunes, and, most importantly, knew the words: a culture being cultivated, celebrated and kept alive through its music.
Later: a harmonica player floated around on the fringes of the crowd, an out of place trombonist stood in briefly, a stand-up bass player, a banjo picker, a couple of concertinas.
Marc Savoy
Milton Vanicur’s grandson
Freddie Hanks ~ 84 Years Young
Last year’s Savoy Jam images, a different weekend.
