Preserving the French Creole culture of southern Illinois, Indiana and Missouri has been a mission of educator and musician Dennis Stroughmatt. The fiddler and historian presents “French Creole Fiddle ...
Though he’s widely known for his Creole Stomp dance band, there’s another intriguing angle to Dennis Stroughmatt as revealed by this collection of French Creole fiddle tunes and ballads from Old Upper ...
On Tuesday, July 2, the Elgin Public Museum presents violinist Dennis Stroughmatt in a solo performance of "French Fiddle Tunes & Tall Tales: The French Creole Story of Illinois." Stroughmatt ...
Scores of cultures developed along the banks of the Mississippi River. Dennis Stroughmatt learned appreciation of the fiddle in the historically French Creole community of Old Mines, near Ste.
HARTFORD – Lewis and Clark State Historic Site will host a special program on the unique French Creole culture of Illinois as historian and musician Dennis Stroughmatt will use folk tales and fiddle ...
This is an 18th-century French song. Au Clair de la Lune, or translated as By the Light of the Moon is very easy to learn and nowadays sang as a lullaby.
Scores of cultures developed along the banks of the Mississippi River. Dennis Stroughmatt learned appreciation of the fiddle in the historically French Creole community of Old Mines, near Ste.