Cajun music and China are two things that normally don't meet in the same sentence, but a little band from Switzerland called Mama Rosin might change that.
Mama Rosin, the brainchild of guitar and banjo player Robin Girod and accordion player Cyril Yeterain, are set to bring their brand of Cajun fusion punk rock to eight different Chinese cities as part of the Francophone Festival, a music and film festival held by the French-speaking countries of Europe.
Yeterain says that Mama Rosin was very excited to come to China, especially since they were invited by the Swiss embassy. At the same time, Yeterain says that the band is unsure how they will be received in China.
"I think maybe no body knows what Cajun music is, that's what I think before meeting people, we haven't played yet, and we don't know what people will think," Yeterain says. "We had a press conference and the journalists were very curious in our instruments because they have never seen them before."
The instruments the journalists fawned over, Yeterain says, were an old-fashioned Cajun accordion, a banjo and something normally found in folk music in the US: a washboard.
No comments:
Post a Comment