Traditions handed from generation to generation.
Sundays in Cajun south Louisiana were all about family. Mass in the morning, dinner at maw-maw’s, and then dancing at the local dance hall.
With families spread out generally all over the country, Sunday family dinners and gatherings are fewer and fewer. Even fewer are the dance halls. Where once you could find dancing in almost every community, today those old time dance halls are a thing of the past.
Enter the Feed and Seed in Lafayette, LA. It may not have started as a dance hall but this old feed and seed building is now a thriving dance hall complete with the uneven old wooden floor.
On this Sunday afternoon we danced to the sounds of Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band. It was billed as the Ole School Zydeco Dance and it lived up to the billing. Everyone was rockin and rollin to the zydeco beat. This Sunday along with the music, jambalaya was being served and was included in the ticket price of $12.00 each.
Our time at the Feed and Seed ended too soon but the memories and rhythmic beat of zydeco will last until we are able to return.
