La Follette School professor Karen Holden and her band, Cajun Strangers, have been recognized for producing the best CD in 2006 by a non-Louisiana Cajun band.
The Cajun French Music Association will give the Cajun Strangers the Prix Dehors de Nous (the Prize Outside of Ourselves) for the band’s 2006 album, “Valse a Deux Temps.” The Le Cajun Music awards were given August 17 in La Fayette, Louisiana, before the Le Cajun Music Festival, August 18-19.
Holden plays the Cajun t-fer (also known as a triangle). The band peformed at a 2005 benefit the La Follette School Student Association organized after Hurricane Katrina.
The Cajun Strangers also appear in the August-September issue of Dirty Linen magazine. The article, “Beyond the Bayous: Cajun and Zydeco Music from Around the Globe and Pole to Pole” by Dan Willging, describes Cajun bands outside Louisiana.
— posted August 7, 2007