Hi! Welcome to my vlog. Today I want to talk a little bit about a musician that influenced me a lot. I’m not really sure where he is. It’s kind of an interesting story. When I first started playing the fiddle, when I was about 14 so probably the late 80’s, there was a character...
Alright! That’s an old tune called the Lake Charles Waltz. Today on my vlog I just wanted to talk about what I’m going to be doing in the future and starting now.
A lot of people don’t know but I used to be in a band called BeauSoleil and toured with them for 11 years and I...
Alright, it’s Mardi Gras time and I’m going to play a little medley of Mardi Gras Tunes- two-steps, reels, kinda jiggy things. I’ll do the “Balfa Mardi Gras” into the “Accordion Mardi Gras” and the “Mardi Gras Jig” as a little medley. Just to...
Alright! That was a waltz by Wayne Perry. It was recorded in 1934 in a little bitty community called Indian Bayou which is down the road from here. I live in Scott, Louisiana and if you travel west you run into Duson, and then Rayne and Crowley. Indian Bayou, I believe, was a town just south of...
[0:01]
That is a tune by Eidus Naquin, a legendary musician from Mamou, Louisiana. He sang a lot of old ballads and played a lot of old really obscured archaic tunes with very interesting stories about kings, queens, magical worlds, and things like that. Definitely some ties to France...
[0:01]
Alright, thanks for joining me today. This is my vlog where I talk a little bit about what I’m doing and tunes I’m interested in. And I have a website, MitchReedMusicLessons.com, go check it out! I break down a lot of old-time traditional Cajun and Creole tunes. I break...
[0:01]
Alright! Thank you so much. I wanted to send out a ‘Merry Christmas’ to all my subscribers and also the people who follow on my webpage and are members of my webpage. Thank you so much for your support. I hope everyone out there has an awesome and merry Christmas, happy...
Hi, I’m Mitch Reed. My vlog this week is on how to make things sound Cajun, what kind of ingredients or spices to add to any standard melody and give it a Cajun style. So that’s a good question. A lot of people have been asking about that and so we can use a...
[0:07] All right, that’s a tune that I wrote with Charivari years ago, many years ago called The Holiday, or A Trip to the Holiday Lounge. Basically, it was about my memories as a child driving from Lafayette where I grew up to Mamou, where my family was from, and especially driving...
Hi, I’m Mitch Reed and welcome to my vlog. My vlog today is on an old friend of mine who taught me a lot about Cajun fiddle when I was young. He was almost really like a grandfather to me but also a very good friend.
His name was Adner Ortego and he was from Grand...
Hi, I’m Mitch Reed. Welcome to my vlog and on my vlog this week I’m going to talk about how you can play the Cowboy Waltz, an old-time fiddle tune, and you can play it in the old-time tuning which is where you drop the E string. So I’m tuned Cajun. Normally a Cajun fiddle is...
Hi, I’m Mitch Reed and my vlog this week is on Bébé’s brother, his name was Eraste Carriére. And he had a mazurka that he used to play on the accordion, and just thought it was a neat tune. So I thought it would be fun to play it and then break it down, slowly....