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Barry Jean Ancelet
Barry Jean Ancelet
folklorist
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BeauSoleil
BeauSoleil
American Cajun band
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Dennis McGee
Dennis McGee
American musician
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Ann Savoy
Ann Savoy
American musician, author, and record producer
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Michael Doucet
Michael Doucet
American musician
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Christine Balfa
Christine Balfa
American Cajun musician
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Dewey Segura
Dewey Segura
American musician
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Canray Fontenot
Canray Fontenot
American musician
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Nathan Abshire
Nathan Abshire
American Cajun accordion player
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Boozoo Chavis
Boozoo Chavis
American musician
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Wayne Toups
Wayne Toups
American musician
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The Lost Bayou Ramblers
The Lost Bayou Ramblers
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Belton Richard
Belton Richard
Cajun musician
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Lee Benoit
Lee Benoit
American musician
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Queen Ida
Queen Ida
American musician
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Clifton Chenier
Clifton Chenier
American accordion player and Zydeco musician
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Dewey Balfa
Dewey Balfa
American musician
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Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin
Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin
Creole accordionist
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C. J. Chenier
C. J. Chenier
American musician
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Joel Savoy
Joel Savoy
American Cajun musician and music producer
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Marc Savoy
Marc Savoy
American musician; builder and player of the Cajun accordion
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Zydeco Force
Zydeco Force
American Creole zydeco band
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Amédé Ardoin
Amédé Ardoin
American Louisiana Creole musician
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The Red Stick Ramblers
The Red Stick Ramblers
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Lady Tambourine
Lady Tambourine
American gospel musician from Louisiana
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Pine Leaf Boys
Pine Leaf Boys
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Zachary Richard
Zachary Richard
American singer and poet
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Aldus Roger
Aldus Roger
Cajun accordion player from the United States
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Cléoma Falcon
Cléoma Falcon
American musician
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David Greely
David Greely
fiddler
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Barbara Lynn
Barbara Lynn
American rhythm and blues and electric blues guitarist and singer
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Carl A. Brasseaux
Carl A. Brasseaux
historian
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Nathan Williams
Nathan Williams
American Zydeco accordionist
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Rod Bernard
Rod Bernard
American singer
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Joe Falcon
Joe Falcon
American accordionist
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Doc Guidry
Doc Guidry
American fiddle player
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Beau Jocque
Beau Jocque
American musician
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Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas
American soul and rhythm and blues singer
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Al Berard
Al Berard
American musician
Inez Catalon
American Creole singer

Inez Catalon

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Inez Catalon (c. September 23, 1913 – November 23, 1994) was an American Creole ballad singer, who was one of the most well-known performers of the genre known as Louisiana "home music". These are a cappella versions of ballads and love songs, drinking songs, game songs, lullabies and waltzes performed by women in the home, passed down from earlier generations to provide entertainment for the family before radio and television existed. Home music is not considered part of the public performance repertoire of Cajun and zydeco music because the songs were sung in the home by women, rather than in the dance halls of southwestern Louisiana which featured almost exclusively male performers.

Catalon was a recipient of a 1993 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.