Cajun music is the folk music of French Louisiana. It is characterised by sad songs put to the bouncy, uptempo beat of a two-step or to the romantic, swaying strains of a waltz. The lead instruments in Cajun music are the fiddle or accordion, and traditional Cajun vocals are sung in a high pitch.
The word Cajun is a corruption of Acadian,
the name given to the French colonists who arrived in Canada's eastern provinces in the early 1600s...