Golden Hour: Louis Michot

Duration:

32 minutes, 8 seconds

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve is proud to present Louis Michot. Please sit back and enjoy his performance in our Golden Hour series.

 

Louis Michot is best known as the fiddle player and lead-singer for the Grammy award winning Lost Bayou Ramblers, but his passion for Louisiana French and local folklore are what fuels his career as a musician.

He was born and raised in South Louisiana, and started playing Cajun music on the stand-up bass at age 14, replacing his Uncle David Michot, in the world traveled group of his father and uncles, Les Freres Michot. He picked up the fiddle at age 19 and started the Lost Bayou Ramblers with his brother Andre Michot.

Louis took to learning his ancestral language of French by traveling throughout French Canada, by learning from Cajun French speakers at home in south Louisiana, and by singing the endless repertoire of Cajun French music. In 2012 Louis’ violin and vocal work was the main feature for the Oscar nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild.