"Je M'Endors"- Cajun guitar master David Doucet of Beausoleil sings & tells stories in New Orleans

David Doucet — founding guitarist for Grammy-winning Cajun supergroup and French Louisiana cultural standard-bearers Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet — plays "Je M'Endors" ("I'm Sleepy") — live at Buffa’s bar in New Orleans’ Faubourg Marigny on a night full of French- and English-language songs (Cajun, Creole, blues, old-time country, bluegrass, folk, etc.) and the fascinating and often-humorous stories behind them on Labor Day 2026. "It's one of the most beautiful and haunting melodies I've ever heard that came from within our culture," said Beausoleil bandleader and fiddler Michael Doucet. "I first heard this song played by Mme. Irene Whitfield Holmes, who first transcribed it in her 1939 thesis from LSU. Ballads are both rare yet extremely important in the perpetuation of our tradition. Ballads were really 'out of style' back when we released our own version, because you couldn't dance to them. And most of them were sung and carried on by Acadian women." https://www.facebook.com/DavidDoucetMusician

Added 18 Sept 2026