Hey everyone! We'd like to let you know that this episode was filmed in February 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic swept through cities in the United States. Houston is currently experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases and we hope the community remains safe at home until it’s time to dance together again. Additional note from Karina Houston: "This is Karina, on the KQED Arts account. Thank you for watching! What do you think about Zydeco dancing and the rhythm of accordions in the south? Drop your thoughts in the comments below!"
Its awesome! I just did ancestry dna test and found out way more abt my creole heritage. And we have much more mixed in besides the 3 the Elder mentioned in the beginning. I sent this to my Uncle he listens to Zydeco and r&b thats it!!!!!💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
I am a native Houstonian and found that Aiko about 15 years ago with J. Paul Junior (and Chris Ardoin). Friends kept asking me exactly what it is, you did an amazing job presenting it here🔥🔥🔥♥️♥️♥️🥰🥰🥰.
I am as much a Yankee as Yankee can get, I am from New Jersey. And I love the Deep South...I always have. "The Sweet Sunny South". I come on the Crescent, Amtrak number 19. Something about it...
Here after listening to Cowboy Carter and hearing Zydeco for the first time. This is beautiful, thanks for sharing the knowlege of our peoples rich culture!
I’m a 64 year old generic white guy. I have no horse in the race about when or where it came from and went to but one thing I do know is that I love Zydeco. I first heard many years ago and was instantly hooked. To all here I send my best hope and wishes for your peace and happiness!
I loved this. My grandparents moved my family from St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana to Houston back in the 50's. We are the first generation Houstonians. Once Zydeco is in your blood, it's 4LIFE. ❤
Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
I've gone to live zydeco at Jax Grill on Shepherd in H-town and also the Crawfish Fest in Old Town Spring. Zydeco is popular in Houston no doubt but all the bands hail from across the Sabine in Louisiana..... sha!
I’m really trying to understand how zydeco is bigger in Houston than Louisiana. Somebody please explain. Houston is a bigger city but to say zydeco is bigger in Houston is a huge reach.
Bayoubelle83 Houston is the Bayou City. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
Exactly. Even with a good amount of us moving to and living in the area.... *It ain’t bigger*, but maybe he means a larger presence with more people versus the number of people in Louisiana that’s actually dancing and playing. Much Love, y’all 🥰🥰
Because it is, yes everyone knows where it came from, but that doesn't mean they do it as big or as often as Houston. In Houston (pre covid) you could literally go to a zydeco nearly every single day of the weekend (& even during the week sometimes) in several different locations. In Louisiana? It's only every once in a while or special occasions, I used to be back & forth to Opelousas visiting family all the time & lived in Lafayette too & Zydeco's were hard to come by, far & few as they say
Im from PHILLY (PA) and fell in love with Zydeco when I came to the Houston area to meet my in-laws. It's way different than the Philly 2 step (we call it bopping) but it keeps me on the dance floor!!
I won't deny the fact that Houston has it's own Zydeco scene, but it no where as big as it is in Acadiana. And my Cajun brain is still trying to figure out what she was trying to say when she said Laissez le bons temp rouler at the beginning. Other than that, as an Opelousas native myself, I love the representation of Zydeco in any form.
I loved this! My parents are from St. Martinville, Louisiana and Bunkie, Louisiana! I grew up in Port Arthur, Texas where Zydeco is big there too! I reside in Houston (I have for the last 30+ years) My dad had a band...Carl Wayne and the magnificent 7! Clifton Chenier's son Cj played in my dad's band. I love zydeco music and I definitely love my Louisiana roots!
Yess my parents are from Port Arthur, TX born and raised and my mom's parents are from Opelousas, Louisiana and Sunset, Louisiana. My daddy's father is from St. Martinsville Louisiana. Small world we could be cousins girl lol Carla Reynolds.
Hey My People, I am from St. Martinville, in fact "Ledoux" ask your dad if he knows where that is. I'm 61, how old is he I may know him. I live in Pearland Tx but let me put these Houstonians on notice: Louisiana is Zydeco and Zydeco is Louisiana. I have much love for you guys but y'all have No Culture of your own. Everything y'all have here either came from Louisiana or Mexico.
I was a HTown transplant and became mesmerized by Zydeco! I knew it was from LA and could feel the strong roots! I’m from NC and my bones felt this music! Thanks for sharing! ❤️🥰
I a’m creole and from Houston, my grandma generation moved from Louisiana to Houston. There’s a big population here especially when people left due to hurricanes and to be closer to family that is here. No body is stealing anything from anywhere. Many people here have roots to Louisiana they just relocated but brought our culture with us. Y’all tripping
Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
Think bachata + merengue. *I haven’t lived in the capital since 2000, but it’s a similar feel with all the movements. Bachata moreso when the music slows down and the instruments are stronger.*
I discovered zydeco when I lived in NOLA way back in the day, but I wasn't aware of its Houston roots until today. Thnx for the history lesson. Vive le culture!
Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
That's my family playing the music in this video from the La La on. I love this video explains the culture very well. Boi sec Ardoin is my Great Grandfather, Chris Ardoin is my cousin. Our family loves this music and our culture.
Yes, the dance of Flavor, movement of the body and soul with a swing that stretched from Louisiana, thru the Dirty South, in South America, Dominican republic and Brazil has some dancing step swing. I love it 😎💃
Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and at the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
Damn she couldn’t even say it right in French lmao! Many Louisiana natives live here and brought food and music with them. Being from Evangeline Parish I grew up on this along with the food. I speak the language also and bring it with me wherever I go! Zydeco is from Southwest Louisiana culture! Enjoy it, dance to it but please don’t disrespect the roots! Many say it’s not in Louisiana anymore, you know nothing. For Mardi Gras I travel back home, when I want to really dance and have the true energy of it, home is always has that feel. Glad many like it but some act like this is new, Zydeco has been out for sooo long at one time it was never performed in English, just in “et française”. It’s not bigger here it’s just new to those not of the culture. When something isn’t native to an area and people enjoy it, many portray it to be new and it isn’t. Never forgot it’s roots LOUISIANA⚜️!
I went to a placed called "Pe-Te's Cajun Barbecue House"....in South Houston, Texas.....every Saturday from 2-6pm ....They had a Zydeco Band and Dance.....I went for about 15 years until they closed.....Wilfred Chavis played many times there.....and he let me play Rubboard with him and the band.....I was "Rubboard Cindy".....I also taught Zydeco Dance Lessons .....it was the best time of my life......I met so many nice people.....I loved the video.....
Im Mexican and love Zydeco Music We Called It Cumbia And We Also Play The Accordion Too I Remember Growing Up As A Kid In Fifth Ward And There Was A Old Neighbor Who Always Had His Cadillac Turned Up And Blaring Zydeco Music
Agree whole heartedly. I'm an Ardoin and we love listening to his music as much as our own family's music. He's definitely an integral part of the history.
Some my family moved to houston back in the day. They trail ride just like back in La and they all play that music while out. But difference is French is still more popular in La than htown. To be clear I’m from south La
I just heard about this music and I am sooooooo thrilled. I love it!!! Lord please allow be to learn how to dance Zydeco. In the name of Jesus, Amén. Thank you to everyone who did this video.
Yay! Laissez les bon temps rouler!! Been here in Htown since I was 10 years old from Lafayette. I never knew how much of the African Americans in Houston had come from floods in Louisiana - obviously they did after Katrina. Great video! Great culture to keep alive and spread even further!!
First time I hear about Zydeco. I'm glad a ran into this video here in YT. I can feel the passion you folks have towards that genre just like I do with my people's accordion genre Perico Ripiao / Merengue Típico. Much love.
Lule Melgarejo Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
Joe Osborn, legendary bass player with more gold records that you could count, member of the Wrecking Crew and native Louisiana son is into Zydeco, so it has to be special :-)
I had never heard of zydeco before, but l checked it out and I am so impressed. I was born in Alabama but raised from the age of 3 in Ohio,so I had never heard of zydeco. I'm very impressed.
just discovered zydeco (I heard Jon Batiste of the Late Show mention Clifton Chenier and decided to check him out) and I love it! I also really want to play the washboard/rubboard :D
This video made me smile i never heard it called zydeco we called it Salsa or Hispanic music i love it, its happy up lifting it has a fresh clear sound im glad 2c black people dancing 2 it. I dont like rap music most of its 2 heavy on the base it sends negitive messages 2 the young. I have been told by my own people black people that I aint even black cuz I prefer salsa music over rap. I had a guy turn down my music in my own car cuz it wasnt rap he said...damn baby whats wrong with u? U got 2 listen 2 yr own music. I said...I was u just turned it down. He laughed & said u ain't for real is u? They just won't let me live it down. I'm showen them this video 4 sure! I'll say its called (ZYDECO BABY) & black people that r still black even dance 2 it! This music is colorful lively happy🎶 can u say that about rap music?
This is some good information. I love Zydeco and very fond of the Creole culture. Keep the content coming. I was not aware of the impact this music has in Houston!
I love this video! I want to come by there next time I fly into Houston and stay for the weekend to enjoy the music and just to be with all of you. It would be so much fun.
We would dance at PT's. Saturday from 2 to 6, then we would drive to Jax on Shepard and dance from 6:30 to 10.. What a Joy. The food at. Jax's is pretty good and not expensive.
I had no clue that Houston had a big Zydeco scene! I always thought it was only a Louisiana thing. I guess I have to make a trip there to experience it!
Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
No definitely is, like I said in another comment, everyone knows where it comes from, but as far as who currently "does it bigger/more often", it's Houston by a landslide. Pre-covid who could go to a zydeco nearly everyday of every weekend, & even some weekdays, but in Louisiana, it only every now & then or on special occasions, I used to be back & forth to Opelousas all the time visiting family & even lived in Lafayette & they were far as few inbetween unless it was special occasions or bazaar season other than the Step N Strut, I wanted to have that "Old School Zydeco" experience in The Root/The Boot but it never happened, plus events are being taken over by the hood african americans taking over the culture
Kid you not, me and my mom AWAYS danced Zydeco together, but I had no idea there was a name for it. I'm a Texas gal, but momma's side hails from New Iberia, Louisiana & some of the early St. Landry families. Haven't been to either place yet. SMH
Yall!!! LISTEN!!🔥🔥, people/folk where I'm from South Georgia, don't know what this music is and means, Talm bout waking spirits!! I go LOUD. Accordion sound like harmonica, dat gah damn rub board🔥,
NOBODY SAID IT WAS THE HOME OF ZYDECO! they spent the whole video giving Louisiana the credit it deserves for creating and explaining how it became popular in Houston and what that culture means to Houstonian. Y’all really dragging it. - a creole houstonian raised on zydeco
Correction: Zydeco as a genre was not born in SW Louisiana. LA-LA, or creole folk music, was born in Louisiana and was brought to Houston which combined with the urban houston R&B and rural TX "down home" blues to create Zydeco. Now it would be accurate to say that Zydeco was created mostly by people FROM Louisiana, but not *IN* Louisiana.
@Mona Jones Houston duke-peacock style 40s-50s R&B was absolutely critical to the development of Zydeco *IN HOUSTON* not Louisiana. The early Zydeco records by Clifton Chenier were played on the blues scale with heavy boogie basslines typical of peacock style R&B of the time with creole accordian "two steps" basically and were recorded *IN HOUSTON.* Louisiana la-la =/= Zydeco. People played la-la music in Louisiana. La-La artist such as Amede Ardroin used completely different basslines, scales, and instrumental arrangements than actual Zydeco artist like Clifton Chenier who got his start in TX. Clifton Chenier, the man credited, with creating the sound of modern zydeco started playing with the piano keys on the accordion and inventing the washboard vest while living in Texas, was discovered by Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records in Frenchtown Houston. It was in Houston's black catholic churches like Our Mother Of Mercy and then black nightclubs like Irene's Cafe, The Silver Slipper Lounge, and The Continental Zydeco Ballroom, that electric & basss guitars, drum kits, saxophones and trumpets were added taking the previous la-la tradition and adding rural TX blues and modern urban Houston r&b influences which created Zydeco. Louisiana La-La folk music on the other hand used non-keyed accordians, fiddles, washboards, and other makeshift household appliances.
@@tize8310 sorry bud that's false again; zydeco has nothing to do with Texas or Houston only that a person from Louisiana moved there and played music there.
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Hey everyone! We'd like to let you know that this episode was filmed in February 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic swept through cities in the United States. Houston is currently experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases and we hope the community remains safe at home until it’s time to dance together again. Additional note from Karina Houston: "This is Karina, on the KQED Arts account. Thank you for watching! What do you think about Zydeco dancing and the rhythm of accordions in the south? Drop your thoughts in the comments below!"
Its awesome! I just did ancestry dna test and found out way more abt my creole heritage. And we have much more mixed in besides the 3 the Elder mentioned in the beginning. I sent this to my Uncle he listens to Zydeco and r&b thats it!!!!!💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
What’s the name of the place (dance hall) shown at the end of this video?
Love zydeco, but didn't realize it is also a Houston thing. Great video!
I am a native Houstonian and found that Aiko about 15 years ago with J. Paul Junior (and Chris Ardoin). Friends kept asking me exactly what it is, you did an amazing job presenting it here🔥🔥🔥♥️♥️♥️🥰🥰🥰.
I am as much a Yankee as Yankee can get, I am from New Jersey. And I love the Deep South...I always have. "The Sweet Sunny South". I come on the Crescent, Amtrak number 19. Something about it...
Here after listening to Cowboy Carter and hearing Zydeco for the first time. This is beautiful, thanks for sharing the knowlege of our peoples rich culture!
Louisiana is Blessed to have such culture in our bones. Love me some Zydeco
I’m a 64 year old generic white guy. I have no horse in the race about when or where it came from and went to but one thing I do know is that I love Zydeco. I first heard many years ago and was instantly hooked. To all here I send my best hope and wishes for your peace and happiness!
I'm mostly white from West Texas. Dance Norteno. Love Zydeco. Reminds me of best friend George Bourgeois of Crowley LA. RIP George.
they are singing in french.......
Yasss honey, I'm a native Houstonian and we love our zydeco!
Love this sound. Reminds me of tejano music. You can't help but feel it in your bones. Awesome. Respect.
Steven Rodriguez Hell yeah! Both got epic accordion! I love both musical styles!!!!
I loved this. My grandparents moved my family from St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana to Houston back in the 50's. We are the first generation Houstonians.
Once Zydeco is in your blood, it's 4LIFE.
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Ce’ bon I can respect it much love ❤️
Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
Did he say it's bigger in Houston than SWLA that baw crazy ya heard.
You ain't tellin' no lies!!
Big facts bruh, everybody know Lafayette do it big sha
I thought the same thing.... Dat boot baby.....
Right I was nah too. We have zydeco festival in Louisiana. Right there in Leabeu,LA. Almost all the main stream zydeco artists are from Louisiana.
I've gone to live zydeco at Jax Grill on Shepherd in H-town and also the Crawfish Fest in Old Town Spring. Zydeco is popular in Houston no doubt but all the bands hail from across the Sabine in Louisiana..... sha!
I’m really trying to understand how zydeco is bigger in Houston than Louisiana. Somebody please explain. Houston is a bigger city but to say zydeco is bigger in Houston is a huge reach.
Bayoubelle83 Houston is the Bayou City. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
@@wackyruss But how is it bigger?
Exactly. Even with a good amount of us moving to and living in the area.... *It ain’t bigger*, but maybe he means a larger presence with more people versus the number of people in Louisiana that’s actually dancing and playing. Much Love, y’all 🥰🥰
I have been listening 2 that kind of music 4 decades & I live in Michigan.
Because it is, yes everyone knows where it came from, but that doesn't mean they do it as big or as often as Houston. In Houston (pre covid) you could literally go to a zydeco nearly every single day of the weekend (& even during the week sometimes) in several different locations. In Louisiana? It's only every once in a while or special occasions, I used to be back & forth to Opelousas visiting family all the time & lived in Lafayette too & Zydeco's were hard to come by, far & few as they say
Im from PHILLY (PA) and fell in love with Zydeco when I came to the Houston area to meet my in-laws. It's way different than the Philly 2 step (we call it bopping) but it keeps me on the dance floor!!
I won't deny the fact that Houston has it's own Zydeco scene, but it no where as big as it is in Acadiana. And my Cajun brain is still trying to figure out what she was trying to say when she said Laissez le bons temp rouler at the beginning. Other than that, as an Opelousas native myself, I love the representation of Zydeco in any form.
Ditto! She don't even know what she was trying to say!! 😂
I was thinking the same thing when I heard them say that.. it's all love though but naw.. next thing yall will say is you eat more boudin than us...
Laissezble bons temp rouler = Let the good times roll
It's french.
I loved this! My parents are from St. Martinville, Louisiana and Bunkie, Louisiana! I grew up in Port Arthur, Texas where Zydeco is big there too! I reside in Houston (I have for the last 30+ years) My dad had a band...Carl Wayne and the magnificent 7! Clifton Chenier's son Cj played in my dad's band. I love zydeco music and I definitely love my Louisiana roots!
713 & 409 black folks are basically the same ppl. A mix or rural TX and LA. Cowboy-creole fusion culture.
Yess my parents are from Port Arthur, TX born and raised and my mom's parents are from Opelousas, Louisiana and Sunset, Louisiana. My daddy's father is from St. Martinsville Louisiana. Small world we could be cousins girl lol Carla Reynolds.
I have lots of family in Bunkie Louisiana as well Prater is our last name from my daddy's side of the family.
Hey My People, I am from St. Martinville, in fact "Ledoux" ask your dad if he knows where that is. I'm 61, how old is he I may know him. I live in Pearland Tx but let me put these Houstonians on notice: Louisiana is Zydeco and Zydeco is Louisiana. I have much love for you guys but y'all have No Culture of your own. Everything y'all have here either came from Louisiana or Mexico.
@@lachelleprater7183 most definitely!!!
I was a HTown transplant and became mesmerized by Zydeco! I knew it was from LA and could feel the strong roots! I’m from NC and my bones felt this music! Thanks for sharing! ❤️🥰
Y’all can’t disrespect Louisiana like that man
That's what I'm sayin bruh
@@MrIgnid everyone steal from us and try to label it theirs
Thank you!
Nobody saying it’s OURS we know where it originated but we do the shit just as good !
I a’m creole and from Houston, my grandma generation moved from Louisiana to Houston. There’s a big population here especially when people left due to hurricanes and to be closer to family that is here. No body is stealing anything from anywhere. Many people here have roots to Louisiana they just relocated but brought our culture with us. Y’all tripping
No it’s not bigger in Houston zydeco is home to Opelousas Louisiana which is the zydeco capital.
Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
Let em know!!!
Thank You.
Make them know! The young lady couldn’t even speak the language in the video lol! ⚜️
@@wackyruss LOUISIANA is the bayou state
Wow i learn something new today. Love the dance. Looks litle like our Dominican 🇩🇴 merengue mix w salsa dance.
Think bachata + merengue. *I haven’t lived in the capital since 2000, but it’s a similar feel with all the movements. Bachata moreso when the music slows down and the instruments are stronger.*
Right
No, it's not the same no no no
Lived in south Louisiana my whole life.. I love Zydeco can’t get enough of it
I discovered zydeco when I lived in NOLA way back in the day, but I wasn't aware of its Houston roots until today. Thnx for the history lesson. Vive le culture!
Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
@@wackyruss bet that Houston boubou taste right yea
I love our people!!! The way we just THRIVE in spite of and make the best of anything!
That's my family playing the music in this video from the La La on. I love this video explains the culture very well. Boi sec Ardoin is my Great Grandfather, Chris Ardoin is my cousin. Our family loves this music and our culture.
I love hearing your family history! Love zydeco and the Creole culture.
Yes, the dance of Flavor, movement of the body and soul with a swing that stretched from Louisiana, thru the Dirty South, in South America, Dominican republic and Brazil has some dancing step swing. I love it 😎💃
Exactly! This has so much similarity w bachata from DR
Lived in Houston over 20 years. I used to go to PeeTee's down in Clear Lake to dance Zydeco. Never had so much fun in all my life. I miss it!
Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and at the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
You see Creole culture as “Swamp French”? Okay then.
Y’all love Louisiana I know the culture is like no other.
Damn she couldn’t even say it right in French lmao! Many Louisiana natives live here and brought food and music with them. Being from Evangeline Parish I grew up on this along with the food. I speak the language also and bring it with me wherever I go! Zydeco is from Southwest Louisiana culture! Enjoy it, dance to it but please don’t disrespect the roots! Many say it’s not in Louisiana anymore, you know nothing. For Mardi Gras I travel back home, when I want to really dance and have the true energy of it, home is always has that feel. Glad many like it but some act like this is new, Zydeco has been out for sooo long at one time it was never performed in English, just in “et française”. It’s not bigger here it’s just new to those not of the culture. When something isn’t native to an area and people enjoy it, many portray it to be new and it isn’t. Never forgot it’s roots LOUISIANA⚜️!
I went to a placed called "Pe-Te's Cajun Barbecue House"....in South Houston, Texas.....every Saturday from 2-6pm ....They had a Zydeco Band and Dance.....I went for about 15 years until they closed.....Wilfred Chavis played many times there.....and he let me play Rubboard with him and the band.....I was "Rubboard Cindy".....I also taught Zydeco Dance Lessons .....it was the best time of my life......I met so many nice people.....I loved the video.....
Im Mexican and love Zydeco Music
We Called It Cumbia And We Also Play The Accordion Too
I Remember Growing Up As A Kid In Fifth Ward And There Was A Old Neighbor Who Always Had His Cadillac Turned Up And Blaring Zydeco Music
This was cool, but you can’t talk about Zydeco and not mention the Frank family. Preston and his son Keith Frank have been in the business for years.
Facts. I was raised off Keith Frank music. My granny loved him!!! May she rest in peace!
Kieth Frank is my cousin no cap 🧢
Agree whole heartedly. I'm an Ardoin and we love listening to his music as much as our own family's music. He's definitely an integral part of the history.
Agreed!
Word!⚜️⚜️⚜️
love this video. As a creole Houstonian this warmed my soul.
Some my family moved to houston back in the day. They trail ride just like back in La and they all play that music while out. But difference is French is still more popular in La than htown. To be clear I’m from south La
I just heard about this music and I am sooooooo thrilled. I love it!!! Lord please allow be to learn how to dance Zydeco. In the name of Jesus, Amén.
Thank you to everyone who did this video.
I loved watching the trail riders ride before the Houston livestock show and rodeo. Such good memories
Yay! Laissez les bon temps rouler!! Been here in Htown since I was 10 years old from Lafayette. I never knew how much of the African Americans in Houston had come from floods in Louisiana - obviously they did after Katrina. Great video! Great culture to keep alive and spread even further!!
Great Mississippi River flood of 1929 sent thousands of folks fleeing from Louisiana and Mississippi to Houston and other places seeking safety.
Black Louisiana’s came to Houston well before Katrina.
This video is awesome - it's really fun and I learned something new - never heard of Zydeco before!
Love this series! Everything Jess Jones directs is so high quality, Houston Zydeco is no exception!
First time I hear about Zydeco. I'm glad a ran into this video here in YT. I can feel the passion you folks have towards that genre just like I do with my people's accordion genre Perico Ripiao / Merengue Típico. Much love.
love to see the JOY when peeps dance- I used to dance SALSA all the time and seeing all the SMILEs was totally BIGGtop😁
Let's dance Zydeco, be happy and get along.
I'm TexMex. Zydeco looks like fun. So let's dance! 🌿🌹🌿
Lule Melgarejo Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
Joe Osborn, legendary bass player with more gold records that you could count, member of the Wrecking Crew and native Louisiana son is into Zydeco, so it has to be special :-)
Nice!
JAX Grill on Shepard ... Fridays and Saturdays(before COVID)...
First heard zydeco on kpft late at night years ago. I couldn't believe what I was hearing! Love it.
South Georgia born and raised. I love Zydeco. ❤
I had never heard of zydeco before, but l checked it out and I am so impressed. I was born in Alabama but raised from the age of 3 in Ohio,so I had never heard of zydeco. I'm very impressed.
It comes from Opelousas louisiana
I enjoyed learning a little. I also enjoyed seeing young and older people dancing.
Absolutely beautiful music. A treasure! Et toi, sha!
This was a good look! Love my city! Ms. Houston tho 👀😍
So how did Houston become home of Zydeco?? That straight from the boot
Zydeco bigger in Houston than SWLA ? This dude is tripping !!!!
i just said this when i heard that like boy do what?? ikyfl...
When she said bon timps rouler, I almost turned to video off😂😂, oh no cha that's not how you say it🤣🤣
I mean Texans have accents 🙄
@@ebbykayyc8442 accents have nothing to do with saying it right
@@lollipop9167 depending on the accent, it can. Imagine a hispanic trying to pronounce "vanilla" or a German saying "thunder" lol
Interesting. I love zydeco. I am from Mississippi and I’d never heard of zydeco until attending college in Louisiana and now, I love it!
Zydeco music is just super special to me!!❤ I love it so much!
I appreciate and love the culture,I enjoy watching and learning about this Phenomenon ❤
just discovered zydeco (I heard Jon Batiste of the Late Show mention Clifton Chenier and decided to check him out) and I love it! I also really want to play the washboard/rubboard :D
I remember Zydeco being big in Houston 60 years ago when I was a little boy.
I’m new to Zydeco, but I’m glad I found it!! I’m coming after I his sound!
This video made me smile i never heard it called zydeco we called it Salsa or Hispanic music i love it, its happy up lifting it has a fresh clear sound im glad 2c black people dancing 2 it. I dont like rap music most of its 2 heavy on the base it sends negitive messages 2 the young. I have been told by my own people black people that I aint even black cuz I prefer salsa music over rap. I had a guy turn down my music in my own car cuz it wasnt rap he said...damn baby whats wrong with u? U got 2 listen 2 yr own music. I said...I was u just turned it down. He laughed & said u ain't for real is u? They just won't let me live it down. I'm showen them this video 4 sure! I'll say its called (ZYDECO BABY) & black people that r still black even dance 2 it! This music is colorful lively happy🎶 can u say that about rap music?
Zydeco and Salsa are two different things but the vein is similar.
Do you like blues music?
Salsa and meringue are black music bought to the areas by the descendants of the enslaved west Africans.
Zydeco is from Louisiana, isn’t it?
yes it is. Hustonians try to claim it but it's birth place is Louisiana
@@lollipop9167Correct 💯🪗🎸🎹
I never heard of Zydeco before. But it sounds wonderful. I'm about to get into it now.
This is some good information. I love Zydeco and very fond of the Creole culture. Keep the content coming. I was not aware of the impact this music has in Houston!
Don’t know how I ended up here but glad as hell, Zydeco dance never heard of it before, not hard @ all to do for MexiCans n very entertaining n fun
LOUISIANA people that moved and brought the culture with them.
This dance looks a lot like bachata (Dominican Republic). It’s crazy how we all connected
Louisiana is creole so a mixture of many different culture such as haitianos, Spanish, French, Italian and more
@@jarvisantwineii5448 You left out African?!
@@jarvisantwineii5448 STOP THE DISMISSAL OF THE ORIGIN THAT IS AFRICA.. THE OTHERS ARE AFTER.
@@thatguybutitsactuallyagirl5384 BLACK PEOPLE CREATED THE MOST GENRES OF MUSIC.. RACIST EUROPEANS LOVE TO DISMISS THAT
This was cool! One time for zydeco in the city of Houston 🤘🏽. Hey Karina!
I love Zydeco music
I love this video! I want to come by there next time I fly into Houston and stay for the weekend to enjoy the music and just to be with all of you. It would be so much fun.
Zydeco is what it is l just love it
We would dance at PT's. Saturday from 2 to 6, then we would drive to Jax on Shepard and dance from 6:30 to 10.. What a Joy. The food at. Jax's is pretty good and not expensive.
Love it and I learned so much subscribing!!! Please keep going y'all are amazing!!
I had no clue that Houston had a big Zydeco scene! I always thought it was only a Louisiana thing. I guess I have to make a trip there to experience it!
You hear that music, you’ve gotta moooove🎶🎵
Music for the soul 💜
Is that Jax Bar and Grill at 1:06? That’s where me and my fam zydeco at
I think it is!
It's because a lot of people moved to Houston and other parts of Texasb after Hurricane Katrina.
I’m from Houston & yes it’s large here but it’s not larger than SWLA yall tripping, tripping. Y’all must not go see yall bayou family anymore
I moved to Houston 2011. it's home to me!
Born and raised on zydeco!! ❤️❤️❤️
I love this series!
LMFAOOOOOO zydeco is not bigger in Houston than Louisiana, stop the cap.
Houston is the Bayou City! It was born on the Buffalo Bayou. It's basically where the Tex-Mex meets the Swamp French! Even rural East Texas up and down the Sabine is basically Louisiana. We even got Mardi Gras in Galveston, sha! I worked at schools in Spring ISD and HISD. In one school the PE coach was Cajun and the other school the Computer Tech teacher was Creole. I had many kids in my music classes that were from Katrina evacuated families. So many Prudhomme and Thibodeaux surnames in the school. Even the Mexicans throw boudin on the BBQ in H-town! One day I saw a dad pick up a kid at school and I knew he looked familiar. I saw him the other night scrapin' Le frottoir in the zydeco band at Jax Grill! So yeah... think of Houston as the extension of dat bayou boogie!
No definitely is, like I said in another comment, everyone knows where it comes from, but as far as who currently "does it bigger/more often", it's Houston by a landslide. Pre-covid who could go to a zydeco nearly everyday of every weekend, & even some weekdays, but in Louisiana, it only every now & then or on special occasions, I used to be back & forth to Opelousas all the time visiting family & even lived in Lafayette & they were far as few inbetween unless it was special occasions or bazaar season other than the Step N Strut, I wanted to have that "Old School Zydeco" experience in The Root/The Boot but it never happened, plus events are being taken over by the hood african americans taking over the culture
@@kreolekidd84 you don't know anything about Zydeco in Louisiana Sha🤣
@@kreolekidd84sorry 😞 bud but it's not your culture cooyon
@@kreolekidd84pluss take that off you're acc weirdo you're not from louisiana 😂😂😂you're not
LA creole
Kid you not, me and my mom AWAYS danced Zydeco together, but I had no idea there was a name for it. I'm a Texas gal, but momma's side hails from New Iberia, Louisiana & some of the early St. Landry families. Haven't been to either place yet. SMH
EXCELLENC!!! LOVEB this music!
This was really good 🤘🏽Htown
Zydeco is from Louisiana
Yall!!! LISTEN!!🔥🔥, people/folk where I'm from South Georgia, don't know what this music is and means, Talm bout waking spirits!! I go LOUD. Accordion sound like harmonica, dat gah damn rub board🔥,
Love my city H-town for life 🤘🏾🔥
I love my city Houston. Shoutout to the Simons, Normans, Patts, Goudeaus and Jacksons.
Houston, Louisiana I dnt care..Because we are All still family/ neighbors N hell yes we All love the music!!!
NOBODY SAID IT WAS THE HOME OF ZYDECO! they spent the whole video giving Louisiana the credit it deserves for creating and explaining how it became popular in Houston and what that culture means to Houstonian.
Y’all really dragging it.
- a creole houstonian raised on zydeco
You Haitian creole not louisiana creole
Correction: Zydeco as a genre was not born in SW Louisiana. LA-LA, or creole folk music, was born in Louisiana and was brought to Houston which combined with the urban houston R&B and rural TX "down home" blues to create Zydeco.
Now it would be accurate to say that Zydeco was created mostly by people FROM Louisiana, but not *IN* Louisiana.
@Mona Jones Houston duke-peacock style 40s-50s R&B was absolutely critical to the development of Zydeco *IN HOUSTON* not Louisiana. The early Zydeco records by Clifton Chenier were played on the blues scale with heavy boogie basslines typical of peacock style R&B of the time with creole accordian "two steps" basically and were recorded *IN HOUSTON.*
Louisiana la-la =/= Zydeco. People played la-la music in Louisiana. La-La artist such as Amede Ardroin used completely different basslines, scales, and instrumental arrangements than actual Zydeco artist like Clifton Chenier who got his start in TX.
Clifton Chenier, the man credited, with creating the sound of modern zydeco started playing with the piano keys on the accordion and inventing the washboard vest while living in Texas, was discovered by Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records in Frenchtown Houston. It was in Houston's black catholic churches like Our Mother Of Mercy and then black nightclubs like Irene's Cafe, The Silver Slipper Lounge, and The Continental Zydeco Ballroom, that electric & basss guitars, drum kits, saxophones and trumpets were added taking the previous la-la tradition and adding rural TX blues and modern urban Houston r&b influences which created Zydeco.
Louisiana La-La folk music on the other hand used non-keyed accordians, fiddles, washboards, and other makeshift household appliances.
@@tize8310 zydeco is from Louisiana period, can't rewrite history.
@@roybabineaux5353 It was born in Houston. Cry about it.
www.houstonpress.com/music/zydecos-birthplace-6566595
zydeco was born and made in Louisiana look it up
@@tize8310 sorry bud that's false again; zydeco has nothing to do with Texas or Houston only that a person from Louisiana moved there and played music there.
Feeling so homesick right now. Damn
They three-step a lot in Louisiana tho... two-stepping is a Texas Thang
I love to zydeco
Fantastic!!
What a great dance. I will be doing that
This makes me wanna go to a trail ride haven’t been to one in months plus Real Deal coming up
Thank you for this!!!
So beautiful. Good times!
May I please get a list of the songs used? I LOVE zydeco.
Old Time Zydeco by Rusty Metoyer rustymetoyer.com/
Ballin' and It is What is Is by Lil’ Nathan and the Zydeco Big Timers www.nathanwilliamsjr.com
Love in the Barn and Pull it til it Pops by Step Rideau www.steprideau.com/
Put'N Work by Chris Ardoin www.flattownmusic.com/artist/...
Les Zydecos Sont Pas Salés by Clifton Chenier www.downhomemusic.com/product...
@@kqedarts much obliged
@@kingreyna4745 Our pleasure. These talented musicians need support now more than ever. Oh and one correction! It's Put'N Work by Chris Ardoin.
I LOVE Zydeco!
My mom's family is Detiege and Richard. My grandfather built his own house their and it's still there.
Love this
Great video and I saw my self featured!!!!!