Cajun roosters

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The Cajun Roosters at KULT in Niederstetten 2017

The Cajun Roosters are a German Cajun band . The group emerged from the Cajun Pioneers , who played traditional Cajun & Zydeco music, as it is popular in Cajun Country in southwest Louisiana , USA .

Cajun Pioneers

The Cajun Pioneers were founded in 1998 by Luitger Fräger ( Cajun Accordion , 3-row Zydeco Accordion, vocals). Other band members were Hartmut Hegewald ( fiddle , mandolin , washboard frottoir , triangle tit fer ), Klaus Warler guitar , Michael Bentele bass and Olaf Markewitz († February 7, 2007), drums . Luitger Fräger was killed in a traffic accident on February 11, 2005.

Cajun roosters

After Fräger's death, Hegewald, Warler and Bentele formed the Cajun Roosters together with accordionist Chris Hall (from R. Cajun & the Zydecobrothers , The Bearcat , Zydecomotion , Breaux ) and drummer Sam Murray (both from Great Britain) . The band is touring Europe at festivals and released their album Crank It Up in 2006 , for which they received the “Prix dehors de nous” award for a non-Louisiana Cajun band at the CFMA Awards in Lafayette in August 2007 . In November 2008 the album Double Shot was released . Klaus Warler left the band at the end of 2009, and Hazel Scott from Scotland has been a member of the band as a singer and guitarist ever since. In February 2011 the album okra and a pepper was released. Drummer Sam Murray left the band in April 2012 for health reasons. Since then, the Frenchman Antoine Fève has been playing the drums. In December 2012 the band performed in Sumatra (Indonesia) at the Sawahlunto World Music Festival . Violinist Hartmut Hegewald left the band in spring 2013. Since then the Belgian David Buyle has played the fiddle. The band's sixth CD was released in autumn 2013: Hell Yeah! in the current line-up.

  • Michael Bentele

  • David Buyle

  • Antoine Fève & David Buyle

  • Chris Hall

  • Hazel Scott

Discography

Cajun Pioneers

  • Good Rockin 'Louisiana Cajun Music (1999)
  • Jolie Blonde (2001)
  • Aunt Na Na (2003)

Cajun roosters

  • Crank It Up (2006)
  • from the swamps and bayous of Louisiana (Cajun Roosters3, 2008)
  • Double Shot (2008)
  • Toot Toot (Cajun Roosters feat. Dwayne Dopsie) (2009)
  • okra and a pepper (2011)
  • songs of death, divorce, drinking and dancing (Cajun Roosters & friends, 2011)
  • Hell Yeah! (2013)

literature

Web links

Commons : Cajun Roosters  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cajun Rooster's CD "Crank It Up" wins CFMA Award ( Memento from May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )