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Robertson’s Facebook page shows he was a local DJ. In an Instagram post from about two months ago, Robertson shared a photo of him and Ardoin with the caption: "Me & You Against The World.". If ...
Contemporaries said that Ardoin suffered from impaired mental and musical capacities later in his life. Descendants of family members and musicians who knew Ardoin claimed a story, now well-known, that he was severely beaten in a racially motivated attack in about 1939. He was walking home after playing at a house dance near Eunice.
Dennis (Denus) McGee (January 26, 1893 – October 3, 1989) was one of the earliest recorded Cajun musicians.. A fiddle player, he recorded and performed with Creole accordionist and vocalist Amédé Ardoin, with accordionist Angelas LeJeune, and with fiddlers Sady Courville (McGee's brother-in-law) [2] and Ernest Frugé.
George Ardoin turned 4 in August, the same month he started pre-K at Mamou Elementary. He was like family to Marcantel, who watched him before he started school. She described him fondly as "a hot ...
The band formed in Eunice, Louisiana in 1955 consisting of teenaged members Doug Ardoin, Skip Morris, Bert Miller and Harris Miller. In the mid-1960s, the band expanded to include Ned Theall, a trumpeter from Abbeville, who became the group's leader. Because of Theall, and his musical arrangement skills, the band changed its style of music from ...
Ardoin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin (1915–2007), American Cajun accordionist; Amédé Ardoin (1898–1942), American Creole musician; Chris Ardoin, American zydeco accordionist; Danny Ardoin, American baseball player; John Ardoin (1935–2001) American music critic
Eunice Walker Johnson (April 4, 1916 – January 3, 2010) was an American businesswoman. Johnson was the wife of publisher John H. Johnson and an executive at Johnson Publishing Company . [ 1 ]
Eunice is a city in Acadia and St. Landry parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana.The 2010 census placed the population at 10,398, a decrease of 1,101, or 9.5 percent, from the 2000 tabulation of 11,499.