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Inez Catalon ( c. September 23, 1913 [1] [a] – November 23, 1994) [2] was an American Creole ballad singer, who was one of the most well-known performers of the genre known as Louisiana "home music". [3] [4] These are a cappella versions of ballads and love songs, drinking songs, game songs, lullabies and waltzes performed by women in the ...
22-39055. Website. www .kaplanla .com. Kaplan is a city in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 4,600 at the 2010 census, and 4,345 at the 2020 population estimates program. [3] It is part of the Abbeville micropolitan statistical area in Acadiana .
Kaleidoscope (originally the Kaleidoscope) was an American psychedelic folk group who recorded four albums and several singles for Epic Records between 1966 and 1970. The band membership included David Lindley, who later released numerous solo albums and won additional renown as a multi-instrumentalist session musician, and Chris Darrow who later performed and recorded with a number of groups ...
The Fête de la Musique, also known in English as Music Day, Make Music Day, or World Music Day, is an annual music celebration that takes place on 21 June. On Music Day, citizens and residents are urged to play music outside in their neighborhoods or in public spaces and parks. Free concerts are also organized, where musicians play for fun and ...
Indiana University. Known for. professor of music, composer, symphony conductor. Awards. Order of Canada. Saskatchewan Order of Merit. David Leon Kaplan, CM SOM (December 12, 1923 – April 6, 2015) was a Chicago-born, U.S.-educated Canadian composer, university professor of music, performer, and conductor.
Kaplan was known at the time as the founder and leader of the Aeolian Chamber Players, a mixed-timbre chamber ensemble that performed both classical and contemporary music. Kaplan was also asked to design a summer music school for the following summer. Thus the Bowdoin College Summer Music Festival was born.
Kupala Night (also Kupala's Night or just Kupala; Polish: Noc Kupały, Belarusian: Kupalle, Russian: Ivan Kupala, Kupala, Ukrainian: Ivan Kupalo) is one of the major folk holidays [1] of the Eastern Slavs [2] that coincides with the Christian feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist [1] and the East Slavic feast of Saint John's Eve.
The music of rural south Louisiana features significant input from non-Creoles, most notably African Americans who are critical to the cultural/musical identity. Four main musical genres are indigenous to this area — Creole music (i.e. zydeco), swamp pop, and swamp blues. These historically-rooted genres, with unique rhythms and personalities ...