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Hippy Days With Clifton Chenier

This is so good. Following Ron's comment on the last post, here's the UTube video of Clifton Chenier performing "I'm a hog for you". Clifton aka "The King Of Zydeco", is the daddy of CJ, the one that perform in the last post. Last time I saw Clifton was in a dark Montreal second-floor nightclub that was 16 ft wide and 200 feet long, June 1992. I got there late and had to jump to see a tiny man's head. Never got to see the accordion. Last time I saw Ron (all 6'5" of him!) was in a Lafayette restaurant in 1994. Now to see both of them in their prime on this video was quite a thrill. (Ron is the mustachioed spectator in the front row, shown wearing a red t-shirt and holding a beer exactly 52 seconds into the clip). Those hippy days were allright. Clean pre-9/11 fun all-around with sensual females dancing. Got a feeling that when boomers retire the good drugs and music will come out again for an encore. Meanwhile if anyone including Ron has more details on that party (date, place etc...) it would be nice to have it in the comments below. 

Our Friend Is Back With This Time A Bouquet Of Jewish Folklore

That same Lithuanian Martynas who gave us the wonderful Vivaldi Autumn comes up with this medley of Jewish songs with wonderful Baltic (or Slavic?) harmonics. 'Hava Naguila' will never sound the same to us again. Unless of course you chose to hear it from the Polish heavy metal group below, an utterly different...if somewhat scary!... experience.

It's Czaturday! Let's Have a Czarda!

Nutin' like a czarda to czase the blues away! And these two British musicians have so much unity of purpose and performance. Let's all move to Bucharest and learn to dance. If you liked the accelerating pace, try the 2nd and 5th tunes these guys play by clicking on MENU. Write your comments!
Pour Roberpierre zé autres francophones anglophobes:
Y'a rien comme une vigoureuse czarda roumaine pour chasser les blouzes.

Accordion Autumn. Vivaldi Still Rocks!

For those of you lucky enough to have the smell of burning autumn leaves in your nostrils, this young man will give you his best rendition of a favorite of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Wonderful to have an 18th century Venitian priest played four centuries later by a boy in a room facing a $29.95 videocam. The libretto of this work reads aloud like colorful falling leaves.

Autumn Concerto in F Major

Allegro
"Celebra il Vilanel con balli e Canti
Del felice raccolto il bel piacere
E del liquor de Bacco accesi tanti
Finiscono col Sonno il lor godere"

Adagio molto
"Fa ch' ogn' uno tralasci e balli e canti
L' aria che temperata da piacere,
E la Staggion ch' invita tanti e tanti
D' un dolcissimo Sonno al bel godere."

Allegro
"I cacciator alla nov' alba a caccia
Con corni, Schioppi, e canni escono fuore
Fugge la belua, e Seguono la traccia;
Gia Sbigottita, e lassa al gran rumore
De' Schioppi e canni, ferita minaccia
Languida di fuggir, ma oppressa muore."

Unfortunately the translation posted
in my comment below does leaves a hurt.