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UncategorizedFEB · 052005
Carlton Frank Dies

Carlton Frank, one of the last of the old-time Creole fiddlers, died February 5, 2005, at the age of 74 at a hospital in Jennings, Louisiana. His music lives on through his recordings. In 2001, Keith...

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In the 1920s and ’30s, Creole families from Louisiana settled in Houston’s Fifth Ward, in a neighbourhood that became known as Frenchtown — one of zydeco’s great homes in Texas.

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