Cajun Creations

Published 7:00 am Thursday, December 20, 2018

“Blood Moon”

Michot’s Melody Makers

Downloads available wherever you listen to music.

$8 Digital Album

$15 Vinyl

Under the lead of fiddler and Lost Bayou Rambler co-founder Louis Michot, Michot’s Melody Makers’ debut album “Blood Moon” blends traditional Cajun sounds with that contemporary boundary-bending style. The album listens like a history of Cajun music, from classic Louisiana fiddle tunes to sounds from before the introduction of the accordion and finally to today’s embracement of drums and amplifiers.

Bending Lines: The Sculpture of Robert Wiggs

Allison Bohl and Peter DeHart

Future screening dates available at Bendinglinesfilm.com

In this documentary, filmmakers Allison Bohl and Peter DeHart examine Lafayette-based sculptor Robert Wiggs’ obsession and vision for the destruction of the barrier between art and science. “Bending Lines” premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. It has since been screened at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm. It also received an Impact Doc Award of Merit.

In The Time of Shimmer and Light

by Paul Schexnayder

University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press

$20

Climb aboard for another trip to the happy island home of Queen Ida Peacock, Tin Toy Hare and Sir Galatoire Gator.  The second volume in a three-part series, In the Time of Shimmer and Light is a heartwarming fable about friendship, creativity, and problem-solving.  New Iberia’s own artist, author/illustrator, and art teacher Paul Schexnayder beautifully crafts this imaginary world, where young readers find that a coveted shiny object can be both the cause of, and the cure for, their island’s gloom.