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Dewey Balfa
Mamou, United States
Dewey Balfa is credited on 173 releases across 56 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1965–2019 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
173
Pressings credited
56
Albums
6
Decades active
2
In collections
Biography
Dewey Balfa (March 20, 1927 – June 17, 1992) was an American Cajun fiddler and singer who contributed significantly to the popularity of Cajun music. Balfa was born near Mamou, Louisiana. He is perhaps best known for his 1964 performance at the Newport Folk Festival with Gladius Thibodeaux and Vinus LeJeune, where the group received an enthusiastic response from over seventeen thousand audience members. He sang the song "Parlez Nous à Boire" in the 1981 cult film Southern Comfort, in which he had a small role.
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Credited work
173 releases · 56 albums · active 1965–2019
- Performance · 402
- Other credits · 79
Studios: La Louisianne Recording Studios · Arlyn Studios · Master Trak Studio · Boudreaux's Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Balfa Brothers
- Nathan Abshire
- Mamou
- Les Frères Balfa
- Les Frères Michot
- Roger Mason (3)
- Nathan Abshire With His Pinegrove Boys
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