French Creole Music

from

The Illinois Country

2012 Performer

Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Library of Congress, and The kennedy Center

Dennis Stroughmatt

et

L’Esprit Creole

In the Heart of North America is a story that remains to be told, the story of the french creoles who founded the illinois country over Three Hundred years ago.  Along the Wabash and Mississippi River corridors, today They remain with their songs, stories and language, and one music group continues to carry the torch of This enduring culture....Dennis Stroughmatt et L’esprit Creole.