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L'ANNEE DE CINQUANTE-SEPT (The Year of '57). Cajun, Waltz. USA, southwestern Louisiana. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song commemorates Hurricane Audrey, which ripped through Louisiana in June, 1957, making landfall in Cameron Parish, south of Lake Charles.

Alex Broussard

Source for notated version: Alex "Brud" Broussard (1926-2010, Acadiana, La.) [Francois]

Printed sources: Francois (Yé Yaille, Chère!), 1990; pp. 328-329.

Recorded sources: La Louisiane Records LL-103 & LL-8020, Alex Broussard.




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