Indian Summer Showcase: CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band
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- Creator
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Views
- 37,913
- Video Title
- Indian Summer Showcase: CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band
- Description
- C.J. Chenier is the Creole son of the Grammy-award winning "King of Zydeco" Louisiana pioneer Clifton Chenier. Following in his father's footsteps he now leads his father's band as an accordion performer and singer of Zydeco, a blend of Cajun and Creole music. Zydeco is the music of Southwest Louisiana's Black Creoles, a group of people of mixed African, Afro-Caribbean, Native American and European descent. This concert was webcast live on September 21, 2013 from the Potomac Atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
- Video Duration
- 1 hr 10 min 14 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
- Uploaded
- 2013-09-27T19:04:09.000Z
- Type
- YouTube Videos
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- SmithsonianNMAI
- National Museum of the American Indian
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- SmithsonianNMAI
- YouTube Category
- Education
- Topic
- Native Americans;American Indians
- Record ID
- yt_ZO9qmk4WnDk
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