[dcab-l] Sweet and Peaceful Waltz: Chez Seychelles

Songwriters & Music Lovers:

 

“Chez Seychelles"  is traditional Cajun waltz.  Anne McCabe’s guitar, along with fiddler Jim

Schmidt and Don Henninger on accordion, plays some soulful Cajun.  Eddie holds down the bass.

Ensemble, we are “Cypress Quartet”.

 

The Republic of Seychelles is a cluster (155) of charming islands, an archipelago, situated in the

Indian Ocean, southeast of mainland Eastern Africa. The Seychelles are the smallest African

country.

 

95% Seychellois speak Seychellois Creole (Seselwa) derived from French, hence the French

musical connection to American Cajun areas, Louisiana and southeast Texas.  Possibly, the tune

is originally Seychellois-based and taken up by the Quebecois/Cajun/et al communities.  One of

the earlier versions may have been by Michael Doucet with Beausoleil.

 

 

“Alligator bait and the bars never close”

 

To listen:  http://rattlesnakehill.org/Web_Music/edsmusic.html

 

Ed