Cajun Frontier

Status: Closed

Parish: Evangeline

Location: Basile

Photo from the Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Caption: Pine Grove Playboys, L-R,Rodney Balfa, Dewey Balfa, Nathan Abshire, and Basile Marcantel

Club where Nathan Abshire had a regular gig when he met Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records in the early 1960s: http://www.bopping.org/nathan-abshire-pope-of-cajun-accordion/.

Photo Credit: Johnnie Allan Collection at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Courtesy of Chris Strachwitz