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French folk music : Musette – part 1 – Origins
French folk music : Musette – part 1 – Origins
May 10, 2018
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French folk music : musette. The story of unique mixed genre. Part 1 from the end of the XIXth century to World War I : origins & early beginnings.

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French folk music : Musette – part 2 – Guitar, accordion and swing musette !
French folk music : Musette – part 2 – Guitar, accordion and swing musette !
May 10, 2018
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The interwar period stands as the most wonderful years of the musette music style, and owes its success to the alchemy between guitar and accordion, which gave birth to a “jazz à la française” : swing musette.

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French folk music : Musette – part 3 – After World War II
French folk music : Musette – part 3 – After World War II
May 10, 2018
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The period after World War II had to challenge a bunch of threats, which strangled a style on the decline.

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    Musette is a musical style typical from France. The accordion is the emblematic instrument of it, but after the swing years of the 1930’s-40’s, the gipsy-jazz style guitar is closely linked to its history. Welcome into the whimsical world of jazz musette !

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