Learn to Play Real Cajun Fiddle
HOMESPUN
Taught By Michael Doucet.
Level 2
Six CDs and music book

Michael Doucet is an internationally-known fiddler, Grammy-winning leader of BeauSoleil and authority on the Cajun, Creole, Zydeco and old-time music of southwest Louisiana. His fascinating lessons are chock-full of fiddle technique, tips on style, information on the great players and more than 20 great instrumentals.

In addition, Michael provides back-up fiddle or accordion parts for each tune (with stereo separation for practice purposes), and a guitar/fiddle rhythm section for practicing the tunes at the end of the series.

Songs include "DeVillier's Two-Step"/"Entere Moi Pas," "Love Bridge Waltz," "Les Flammes D'Enfer," "Adieu Roza," "La Valse De Grand Bois," "Two-Step De Mama" ("Lacassine Special"), "Jolie Blonde," "J'ai Passe," "Diggy Diggy Lo," "Kolinda," "Bosco Stomp" and more

About Michael Doucet
Michael Doucet, founder of the premier Cajun band BeauSoleil, has been in the forefront of this wonderful music for more than two decades. His fiddle playing, learned from legendary players in and around his native Lafayette, Louisiana, carries on a centuries-old tradition. Beausoleil has received multiple Grammy nominations for a string of successful albums and has performed in movies, on network TV, and in dance and concert halls throughout the world. BeauSoleil won a Grammy in 1998 for "L'amour ou la Folie". On both record and video, Beausoleil backed up Mary-Chapin Carpenter's Grammy-winning single, "Down At The Twiste And Shout." The band continues to tour to ecstatic audiences worldwide.