The Cajun Snowshoes brings together four premier Cajun musicians and long-time friends, crossing borders and blending genres The band represents, indeed explicitly links, the Acadian origins of Cajun music with Louisiana where the displaced Acadians settled and “Cajun Music” evolved. But it’s more than north meets south, Acadie meets Acadiana, maple meets cane, or poutine meets gumbo. It’s a glimpse on our music stage into a before unseen music world, where the Acadian music of above our northern border and of that almost to our southern border blur from the steam of the pot cooking the musical magic.

Nadine Landry and Sammy Lind, from Quebec, have played to the Sugar Maple audience with the Foghorn Stringband, Blake Miller and Amelia Biere, from Louisiana, appeared together in The Old-Fashioned Aces. The four of them share a deep love for Old-Time, Cajun and Country songs and tunes and playing them all night long in the kitchen—now together for the first time on Saturday of the Festival on the main stage. They will also lead the Cajun jam and present a workshop on Saturday afternoon.