Fleur de Lis cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons fleur de lis ifiddle ifiddlemag lafayette louisiana mardi gras Feb 23, 2018

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...

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A Big Announcement a big announcement cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Feb 17, 2018

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...

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Mardi Gras Medley cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music creole mardi gras fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag mardi gras mardi gras medley Feb 16, 2018

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...

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Wayne Perry beau solo cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag indian bayou wayne perry Feb 16, 2018

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...

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Edius Naquin beausoleil cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music edius naquin fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag louisiana mamou old ballads Feb 15, 2018

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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...

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Pascal’s Zegrets and Cajun Band Lab accordion beginner fiddle cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag intermediate fiddle pascal’s zegrets and cajun band lab traditional cajun traditional tune Feb 15, 2018

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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...

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Happy Holidays! cajun and creole cajun christmas cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons happy holidays! ifiddle ifiddlemag Dec 21, 2017

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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...

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How to Make It Sound Cajun beausoleil beginner fiddle cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons how to make it sound cajun ifiddle ifiddlemag intermediate fiddle Dec 06, 2017

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...

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Tales from The Holiday Lounge cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag tales from the holiday lounge Nov 13, 2017

[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...

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Adner Ortego’s Spanish Two-Step adner ortego adner ortego’s spanish two-step cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag lafayette louisiana two step two step cajun Sep 26, 2017

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...

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Cowboy Waltz With a Dropped E cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun music cajun waltz cowboy waltz with a dropped e dennis mcgee fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Sep 21, 2017

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...

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Eraste Carrière’s Mazurka Breakdown accordion cajun and creole cajun fiddle cajun fiddler cajun mazurkas cajun music cajun waltz eraste carrière’s mazurka breakdown fiddle lessons ifiddle ifiddlemag Sep 14, 2017

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....

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