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C. J. Chenier

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49 relations: Accordion, Alligator Records, American Association of Independent Music, Arhoolie Records, Austin City Limits, Austin, Texas, Cajun music, Chicago Blues Festival, Clifton Chenier, CNN, Edinburgh, Entertainment Weekly, Funk, Funkadelic, Gin Blossoms, Grammy Award, Harmonia Mundi, Human voice, James Brown, Jazz, John Coltrane, List of Austin City Limits performers, Living Blues, Louisiana Creole people, Maurice, Louisiana, Miles Davis, Music of Louisiana, Musician, New Miserable Experience, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Paul Simon, PBS, Port Arthur, Texas, Princes Street Gardens, Rhythm and blues, Saxophone, Scotland, Songwriter, Soul music, South by Southwest, Street Scene (San Diego music festival), Summerfest, Swamp blues, Texas, The Jon Stewart Show, The Rhythm of the Saints, VH1, Washboard (musical instrument), Zydeco.

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Alligator Records

Alligator Records is an American, Chicago-based independent blues record label founded by Bruce Iglauer in 1971.

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American Association of Independent Music

The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) is a trade association that represents independent record labels in the United States.

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Arhoolie Records

Arhoolie Records, which is based in El Cerrito, California, United States, is an American small independent record label run by Chris Strachwitz.

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Austin City Limits

Austin City Limits (ACL) is an American public television music program recorded live in Austin, Texas, by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station KLRU, and broadcast on many PBS stations around the United States.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Cajun music

Cajun music (Musique cadienne), an emblematic music of Louisiana played by the Cajuns, is rooted in the ballads of the French-speaking Acadians of Canada.

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Chicago Blues Festival

The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event held in June, that features three days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and the up-and-coming.

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Clifton Chenier

Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), a Louisiana French-speaking native of Opelousas, Louisiana, was an eminent performer and recording artist of Zydeco, which arose from Cajun and Creole music, with R&B, jazz, and blues influences.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Funkadelic

Funkadelic was an American band that was most prominent during the 1970s.

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Gin Blossoms

Gin Blossoms is an American rock band formed in 1987 in Tempe, Arizona.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Harmonia Mundi

Harmonia Mundi is an independent record label which specializes in classical music, jazz, and world music (on the World Village label).

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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List of Austin City Limits performers

This list of Austin City Limits performers is a list of musicians who have appeared on the American PBS television music program Austin City Limits.

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Living Blues

Living Blues: The Magazine of the African American Blues Tradition is a bi-monthly magazine focused on blues music, and America's oldest blues periodical.

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Louisiana Creole people

Louisiana Creole people (Créoles de Louisiane, Gente de Louisiana Creole), are persons descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana during the period of both French and Spanish rule.

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Maurice, Louisiana

Maurice is a village in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Music of Louisiana

The music of Louisiana can be divided into three general regions: rural south Louisiana, home to Creole Zydeco and Old French (now known as cajun music), New Orleans, and north Louisiana.

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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New Miserable Experience

New Miserable Experience is the breakthrough and second studio album by rock band Gin Blossoms, released on August 4, 1992.

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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, often known as Jazz Fest, is an annual celebration of the music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Port Arthur, Texas

Port Arthur is a city in Jefferson County within the Beaumont−Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Princes Street Gardens

Princes Street Gardens is a public park in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By) is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States.

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Street Scene (San Diego music festival)

Street Scene was a music festival that was held each summer in San Diego, California from 1984 to 2009.

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Summerfest

Summerfest is an annual music festival held at the Henry Maier Festival Park along the lakefront in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Swamp blues

Swamp blues, sometimes the Excello sound, is a subgenre of blues music and a variation of Louisiana blues that developed around Baton Rouge in the 1950s and which reached a peak of popularity in the 1960s.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Jon Stewart Show

The Jon Stewart Show is a late night talk show that was hosted by comedian Jon Stewart.

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The Rhythm of the Saints

The Rhythm of the Saints is the eighth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon, released on October 16, 1990 on Warner Bros. Like its predecessor, Graceland (1986), the album gained commercial success and received mostly favorable reviews from critics.

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VH1

VH1 (originally an initialism of Video Hits One) is an American cable and satellite television network based in New York City operated by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks, a division of Viacom.

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Washboard (musical instrument)

The washboard and frottoir (from Cajun French "frotter", to rub) are used as a percussion instrument, employing the ribbed metal surface of the cleaning device as a rhythm instrument.

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Zydeco

Zydeco (or, Zarico) is a music genre that evolved in southwest Louisiana by French Creole speakers which blends blues, rhythm and blues, and music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles and the Native people of Louisiana.

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