Preserving the French Creole culture of southern Illinois, Indiana and Missouri has been a mission of educator and musician Dennis Stroughmatt. The fiddler and historian presents “French Creole Fiddle ...

HARTFORD – Lewis and Clark State Historic Site will host a special program on the unique French Creole culture of Illinois as historian and musician Dennis Stroughmatt will use folk tales and fiddle ...

When Dennis Stroughmatt did graduate work at the University of Quebec, he stayed with a French family. “Mais ça fait fraitte dehors,” he remarked casually one night, coming in from the chilly evening.

Though he’s widely known for his Creole Stomp dance band, there’s another intriguing angle to Dennis Stroughmatt as revealed by this collection of French Creole fiddle tunes and ballads from Old Upper ...

Scores of cultures developed along the banks of the Mississippi River. Dennis Stroughmatt learned appreciation of the fiddle in the historically French Creole community of Old Mines, near Ste.

GREAT BARRINGTON -- The Guthrie name invokes folk music -- and tomorrow night, the soul of a Creole music jam will fill the center owned by Woody's son, Arlo, when Den nis Stroughmatt et l'Esprit ...

LeBlanc Elementary teachers expanded its French immersion experience beyond learning the language to include another integral part of the culture — the music. More than 30 fourth- and fifth-graders ...

The first European culture to establish roots in Illinois - French Creoles along the Illinois, Wabash, and Mississippi Rivers - would in many places be supplanted by later Anglo and German American ...

Veronique Poulin was raised on French fiddle tunes. Growing up in Zenon Park, about 260 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, her grandfather was a folk singer-songwriter. Henri Poulin could rouse a ...