Cajun accordion maker Marc Savoy and family, segment from the HARMONY episode

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  • Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
  • craftinamerica.org. Marc Savoy is a musician, master accordion maker, and champion of Cajun culture. He founded Savoy Music Center in Eunice, Louisiana in 1966, where he builds and repairs Cajun accordions. He and his wife Ann play together in the Savoy-Doucet Band, and they frequently collaborate with three of their four children as The Savoy Family Band.
    HARMONY bridges the art forms of music and craft, celebrating the joy of music and the creation of handcrafted instruments. Featuring accordion maker Marc Savoy and the Savoy family, bow maker Susan Lipkins, luthier Doug Naselroad and the Appalachian Artisan Center Culture of Recovery Program, and artist Richard Jolley, whose monumental glass and steel sculpture inspired a violin concerto.
    For more info about Craft in America, visit www.craftinamerica.org.
    All Craft in America programs are viewable on craftinamerica.org, the PBS iPhone/iPad app, and pbs.org/craft-in-america
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  • @northernlite3368
    @northernlite3368 Місяць тому +3

    I have deep acadian roots dating to 1635. Acadian (Cajun) culture is dear to my heart. This music draws tears from me every time I hear it. A very special congratulation to Ann Savoy for being such a true Cajun.

  • @andremaillet1230
    @andremaillet1230 7 місяців тому +6

    I am an ACADIAN from New Brunswick Canada so very glad to come across this post,,thank you 😊

    • @simonledoux8519
      @simonledoux8519 2 місяці тому

      Acadian culture whether it be in Canada or in Louisiana is a beautiful thing!

  • @alpert711
    @alpert711 7 місяців тому +1

    Amazing video!

  • @user-tu2to1ni6k
    @user-tu2to1ni6k Рік тому +3

    I love Cajun music

  • @nancygould9478
    @nancygould9478 6 місяців тому +1

    What a love story!

  • @nancygould9478
    @nancygould9478 6 місяців тому +2

    Marc you have a beautiful voice, if I do say so myself. Your passion is evident in all you do say and play! Thank you.

  • @henrym.5884
    @henrym.5884 7 місяців тому +1

    Great song and story.

  • @Musicologist-61
    @Musicologist-61 6 місяців тому +2

    I'm from Scotland and I love this music! Once you hear that button box it's hard to get it out of your head!.
    Hello Louisiana.

  • @joemc111
    @joemc111 5 місяців тому +2

    Very nicely put together. I myself can’t play any instrument so I always have a lot of admiration for a musician.

  • @maitajack
    @maitajack 7 місяців тому +1

    Bravo et merci de garder la tradition Marc.❤

  • @gary9111
    @gary9111 7 місяців тому +2

    Love Cajun music ,, It is real people music from the heart

  • @maldivespassions
    @maldivespassions 8 місяців тому +2

    C'est bien de preserver et de chérir la culture cajun et acadienne.
    Merci ❤

  • @england670
    @england670 11 місяців тому +9

    I found out a lot about this family I did not know until I watched this documentary. Marc is a National treasure, along with Ann. So glad for Joel and Wilson carrying on the Cajun music.

  • @MrStanwillis
    @MrStanwillis 7 місяців тому +2

    Proud, happy family, what's better?😊😊😊

  • @patriciajrs46
    @patriciajrs46 7 місяців тому +3

    I love that you have kept this music alive. Thank you Marc. I love it. Fantastic.

  • @danbarosh2942
    @danbarosh2942 Рік тому +2

    WOW! WOW! WOW! what a lesson in CAJUNism.....Presented by the MASTER and FAMILY

  • @johnwalker4642
    @johnwalker4642 Рік тому +9

    Ah yes. Marc Savoy, a National Treasure.

  • @jimmymurphy7789
    @jimmymurphy7789 9 місяців тому +1

    Thank You & many Blessings to the Savoy family.

  • @rogermoreau8834
    @rogermoreau8834 Рік тому +6

    I played in a Rock Band back in the second half of the 1960s'. Our Band purchased a set of Pearl Drums, microphones and guitars strings from Savoy Music. Marc would loan use a Bass Amp for gigs. I will never forget his kindness.

  • @kathleensteeves488
    @kathleensteeves488 7 місяців тому +1

    Yep he’s a Savoy handsome like many I knew in Dieppe Moncton New Brunswick……what a huge beautiful destiny❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @tomsmith5216
    @tomsmith5216 7 місяців тому +1

    I love Cajun music. On my bucket list is a trip to Breayx Bridge , Eunice, and wherever else there are cajun musicians...just for the music...

  • @grahamsinclair1320
    @grahamsinclair1320 6 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for your wonderful video history of a great cajun family and friends. I really enjoyed seeing your history and appreciate your music....all of you are a real treasure to Louisiana. All the best for the future......An Albertan

  • @Vingul
    @Vingul Рік тому +18

    Beautiful! Long live Marc Savoy.

  • @BlindTom61
    @BlindTom61 8 місяців тому +6

    These are some really great people and they are central to keeping the Cajun culture alive.
    I have one of Marks' accordions, one of my proudest possessions.

  • @lennartsjostrom3167
    @lennartsjostrom3167 Рік тому +3

    I bought two LPs with Cajun Music a long time ago. One with D. L Menard and one with Link Davis. Great Music.

  • @jimmymalone3494
    @jimmymalone3494 Рік тому +6

    I love your music And I enjoy it very much.

  • @johntait491
    @johntait491 Рік тому +2

    An excellent and informative video. Thank you. 👍

  • @brunolaurent1589
    @brunolaurent1589 11 місяців тому +2

    Lors de notre voyage en Louisiane, en 2018, un grand moment fût la rencontre avec Marc et Sarah, à Eunice, berceau de la Cajun Music.
    Merci encore 😉.

  • @lynnglidewell7367
    @lynnglidewell7367 Рік тому +5

    Family Bands from Bluegrass to Cajun are as wonderful as can be!

  • @user-vq3ln8fx8i
    @user-vq3ln8fx8i 7 місяців тому +1

    Great history and family. So much of what we should all strive for.

  • @Bookwolf8014
    @Bookwolf8014 2 місяці тому +1

    Living here in South Australia, I love the Savoy family. God bless you all. Belle toujours

  • @samhunt9380
    @samhunt9380 8 місяців тому +9

    Loved seeing the family and their amazing history. Down here in Australia we don't have much in the way of cajun, but Marc and his family have become embedded in my heart. I love their music and their beautiful outlook on life......

    • @enough1494
      @enough1494 7 місяців тому

      I m an Italian American, papa Italian and mother a sweet Cajun Lady from Lafayette! It is the best part of me!

    • @gerryhouska2859
      @gerryhouska2859 7 місяців тому

      I love the music, and thanks to UA-cam uploaders can enjoy it even in outback FNQ.

  • @ExecutiveDirector-es3wj
    @ExecutiveDirector-es3wj 11 місяців тому +3

    Wonderful story and music!

  • @Nalublu
    @Nalublu 10 місяців тому +2

    So much love! What a family!

  • @danmilner5875
    @danmilner5875 10 місяців тому +1

    had the awsome opertunity to see and hear marc and his family at the nova scotia/ cape breton celtic colours... what an amazing show.. pure cajun music , have loved it since. thank you Savoy family.

  • @bally1213
    @bally1213 7 місяців тому +1

    Makes you feel good watching this family and all the folks joining in. Could move in tomorrow. Thanks for sharing 🥰

  • @michelsaarloos4392
    @michelsaarloos4392 Рік тому +1

    Would it be nice to have them old real usa cars be around them. Cajun music, good food and relics. Love it. Greetings from the old country of Holland. Stay this 😊

  • @hublocker849
    @hublocker849 2 роки тому +20

    I saw Joel Savoy play at the Vancouver jazz Festival a few years ago and after the show approached him and asked(in English, stupidly ) if he spoke French. He gave me an irritated look, said yes and turned away to talk to someone else. I should have asked in French, I was just star-struck and it came out like that. I've wanted to apologize ever since. My parents were French-Canadian and I grew up bilingual. I have always wanted to speak to someone from Louisiana and never had the chance until then and screwed up. From what I've seen on the 'net, the French spoken in Canada and Louisiana has more similarities than with contemporary European French. Besides, I love Cajun music.

    • @raymccranie7872
      @raymccranie7872 Рік тому +5

      I Think The Savoy Family are just Wonderful! I just love Port Arthur Blues. I,d give anything to hear them live. Preferably at Mullates in New Orleans. Cajun music just lifts my Soul. Merci Savoy Family.

    • @mavjimbo
      @mavjimbo Рік тому

      Wow, pretty bonehead maybe you'll get a 2nd chance

    • @marshalllyles564
      @marshalllyles564 7 місяців тому +3

      As a young Louisiana State Trooper in the late '70s, we had a few troopers who could only speak limted English assigned to Cajun parishes. Being from North Louisiana I found interaction with some Cajuns to be temperamental. That was really their nature and harmless. I miss my old Cajun buddies.

    • @patriciajrs46
      @patriciajrs46 7 місяців тому +5

      Go see them at their shop. Apologize and just join the fun. You'll be okay.

    • @hublocker849
      @hublocker849 7 місяців тому

      I live in a diametrically opposed location on the continent from them.@@patriciajrs46

  • @seniorLu48
    @seniorLu48 8 місяців тому +3

    I'm Latino and grew up listing to Conjunto (also accordion) music and these Cajun music is so wonderful to listen too; loud and happy. Enjoyed it, my amigo. Great music.

  • @MultiDafydd
    @MultiDafydd Рік тому +3

    I first heard the Magnolia Sisters at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod many years ago. Their music was brilliant. That was my first introduction to Cajun music the rhythms of which I like very much.

  • @RetreatfarmFarmvilleVirginia
    @RetreatfarmFarmvilleVirginia Рік тому +2

    Waving Hello from Richmond, Virginia.

  • @bobbybeeman7280
    @bobbybeeman7280 2 роки тому +6

    Thanks for the tears in my eye's. I change from one style of music to another one month rock, country another, all music has life that shares the souls fervor. Opera to yodeling , kiddy to skitty a moody man am I but when I bounce back to Cajun there is always tears in my eyes. Thanks

    • @naturlm2221
      @naturlm2221 6 місяців тому

      Wow, you have summed up music and its meaning to all humanity, so very well. I love it all, opera to country, classical to hip hop...rap...ok mostly, but some rap lyrics to much violence image rage at times, negative for humans ?

  • @AintNoFool
    @AintNoFool 7 місяців тому +1

    I absolutely loved this!!
    I can't sing or play an instrument...

  • @MarieL10
    @MarieL10 Рік тому +5

    So proud to be a descendant of these wonderful people. My dad was from Erath, La. and my aunts lived in Abbeville, La. I would visit them all summer from the age of 3 till I was 16. My parents lived in Texas so this was like going to Disney land for me. Wonderful memories.

  • @metalfabman5477
    @metalfabman5477 8 місяців тому +2

    Wonderful, Absolutely Wonderful, thank you for this touching video!! I love the south Cajun music

  • @bramblecino
    @bramblecino Рік тому +5

    Absolutely beautiful piece of film. Thank you

  • @timcomeau420
    @timcomeau420 2 роки тому +9

    Nicely done. Est bien! I know about all these people and they are the genuine article. Handmade, homemade music from the hearts of generation after generation of the survivors of the Acadian deportation from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island ( aka Isle St. Jean ). This little pocket of old, old, French culture that we call Acadiana, in the southwest corner of Louisiana, where a dialect of French from the 1600's is still spoken, is something all Americans should treasure. Vive L' Acadie!

  • @scasey1960
    @scasey1960 Рік тому +3

    Great to see Marc Savoy’s videos over the years/decades

  • @MrsJones-di8lg
    @MrsJones-di8lg Місяць тому +1

    I love your music. I’m glad you are keeping it alive. My roots are French Canadian so similar music.😊❤

  • @danielortega4300
    @danielortega4300 2 роки тому +4

    Thank you your music is beautiful and so full of joy and G_ds gift for those who hear it. Shalom

  • @sixwingsram
    @sixwingsram Рік тому +2

    God bless you, such amazing talent and heart. Love this music❤🎼🎹🎼❤

  • @stevecunningham2302
    @stevecunningham2302 2 роки тому +5

    One of the most talented families I’ve ever encountered. Met them in Kansas City years ago and have followed them and watched them perform ever since.

  • @GunwithBallz
    @GunwithBallz Рік тому +1

    I was lucky enough to meet this man this myth the legend of cajun culture and humble human being at that he politely declined our ask for an autograph and after a brief conversation told us "the world is better place with young men like us" this man is a grandfather to any and all young Cajuns trying to cling onto their culture

  • @jameshuckaby-ie2wv
    @jameshuckaby-ie2wv 7 місяців тому +1

    at 5:17 the lady building the accordion, i remember her from 1983. pierre guidry lumber in eunice,la. she still looks the same 40 years later!

  • @redwow
    @redwow Рік тому

    Very interesting and very. good!

  • @rockincajun5107
    @rockincajun5107 2 роки тому +4

    Awesome video! Love the Savoy’s! Great people and my great friends!

  • @marcusolson6577
    @marcusolson6577 2 роки тому +9

    So amazing to see how the father is so happy and passes on the music to his kids!
    Such a proud dad and happy family,happy warm people.
    Would love to have a beer with them and listen to them playing and enjoy what they do the most!

    • @seniorLu48
      @seniorLu48 8 місяців тому +1

      A great example to us all.

    • @patriciajrs46
      @patriciajrs46 7 місяців тому

      ​@@seniorLu48For sure.

  • @mikemcnabb1582
    @mikemcnabb1582 Рік тому

    The story you tell with just 7 words, I Eee Thank You , I love our loving generation of age also , i believe for a bright future we must illuminate our past🙏🏻🫶🏻🙋🏻‍♂️

  • @Beartracks51
    @Beartracks51 Рік тому

    Lots of smiles , Good stuff Keep on keeping on.

  • @RL-xb4gz
    @RL-xb4gz 2 роки тому +9

    This is amazing there talents are endless.I love it

  • @BmoreBusker
    @BmoreBusker 2 роки тому +3

    Excellent new video!

  • @doncates2954
    @doncates2954 Рік тому +8

    Wow, one of the absolute best videos I have seen in years. So much information skillfully presented that it makes you feel like you want jump up and hug the whole family. They all seemed so kind and so much on love with each other and their music. Would love to meet them someday.

  • @cleroy61
    @cleroy61 6 місяців тому +1

    Les Français d'Amérique de sa Majesté le Louis XIVe rayonnent encore aujourd'hui car il disait qu'il voulait qu'on parle de lui dans 300 ans ... un très beau visionnaire ...

  • @phillipbingham487
    @phillipbingham487 Рік тому

    beautiful !

  • @sheila9893
    @sheila9893 Рік тому

    Thank y'all loved learning more about your Family ✌️❤️ to y'all

  • @sonopro1
    @sonopro1 2 роки тому +1

    Merci ! merci ! en provenance d'un Acadien du sud de la Gaspésie, Magnifique magnifique !

  • @babybloc
    @babybloc Рік тому

    Fantastic episode! ❤️‍🔥🪗

  • @rogerkilby4303
    @rogerkilby4303 10 місяців тому +2

    Hopefully older and older but never lost !!!

  • @benraubenheimer7670
    @benraubenheimer7670 Рік тому +1

    Volksmusiek.

  • @justinderbes7548
    @justinderbes7548 Рік тому

    Wow, great video.

  • @drartpowell
    @drartpowell Рік тому +1

    C’est Bon!

  • @FlatpickingJournal
    @FlatpickingJournal Рік тому +1

    ill be down for jazz fest this year. im i have to stop here

  • @emmachamness1748
    @emmachamness1748 Рік тому

    Like the Cajun acordian. In the 40’s producers tried to include acordian in country music. I thought it terrible. Then hearing Cajun style on the old style homer. Loved it

  • @thierrylequeux8284
    @thierrylequeux8284 Рік тому

    le bal la poussiére ... superbe reportage !

  • @FlatpickingJournal
    @FlatpickingJournal Рік тому +1

    i want one!

  • @davidcurtis7547
    @davidcurtis7547 2 роки тому

    What loving craftmanship . I would love to squeeze one of those beauties . Thanks for sharing

  • @Tournesol77
    @Tournesol77 Рік тому +3

    « The savoy ‘s family » au grand complet, j’adore ces musiciens et leur musique
    La visite de l’atelier est un moment exceptionnel
    Un grand merci à vous
    Savoy => savoyard = habitant de la Savoie (France)

  • @frankdekwant4369
    @frankdekwant4369 7 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊

  • @MatthewZmusician209
    @MatthewZmusician209 Місяць тому

    cool

  • @yourturn777
    @yourturn777 2 роки тому +1

    🎉💙✊🏼🎶✌🏼Wow! Big Respect!😍⚜️ But, we dont have the "F", so..... 🏆🕯️

  • @markrobinson8254
    @markrobinson8254 Рік тому

    first... I think they are nice to each other that counts

  • @darlapremeaux7006
    @darlapremeaux7006 3 місяці тому

    Larry Cormier makes accordion 🪗 and he is good

  • @KenneyCmusic
    @KenneyCmusic 10 місяців тому

    🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @nanoreyes2897
    @nanoreyes2897 Рік тому

    The secret ingredient…LoVe

  • @robertfink1126
    @robertfink1126 11 місяців тому

    My question is whoes going to take over your fathers hand made accordion business?

  • @HenryFalkner
    @HenryFalkner 6 місяців тому

    I would prefer they did not talk over their music.

  • @byotin
    @byotin 6 місяців тому

    Fantastic music ,very beutiful I love it.