Zydeco Capital Jam was held today with awarding-winning accordion player
and last updated 2021-07-11 03:46:53-04
Award-winning accordion player and teacher Kaleb LeDay was leading the show at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Center this afternoon.
The 21-year-old was the first place grand prize winner at a state wide accordion contest called The Big Squeeze, they say.
Leday is an accounting major at McNeese State University where he is also a member of the school s student band, Zyde-Pokes. It wasn t until I watched a video film of playing guitar with a band; I saw the accordion player and it looked interesting and easier than a guitar. I asked my mom for one for Christmas, and she said, oh you not going to learn it, and I promised her I was going to. Here we are now, I learned how to play it, Leday told KATC.
The old instrument is helping young players carry on tradition. My mom was like, You re going to learn this because you re Russian, 14-year old Alex French of The Colony said. He made it to the finals playing a Russian World War II-era accordion that was handed down by a family friend. So it made it through World War II, which is pretty cool. I was actually born and adopted from. Russia, 18-year old Nick Heatly of Dallas said. Heatly has been a finalist in the past and said his accordion is a connection to his past. Breaking out an accordion at a party is always something really fun to do, Heatly said. I just fell in love with the instrument.
TRADE union themes are at the centre of two events during the 2021 Sheffield Festival of Debate: Trade Unions, Workers’ Rights and the Media tomorrow, May 5, and Wapping: The Workers’ Story on May 12.
Both of them are timely. We saw during March huge publicity about the attempt to organise a union at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
Here in Britain, the trade union Unite has just launched a national campaign against the pernicious “fire-and-rehire” tactic used by employers where workers are sacked and rehired on inferior pay and conditions.
Recently 400 British Gas engineers lost their jobs because they refused to sign up to contracts which would have meant longer hours for the same pay.