Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin Dies

Mr. Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin, internationally known Creole accordionist, singer, and one of the Zydeco Nation’s last living link to the old Creole musical tradition called “la la music” or “la musique Creole,” died of natural causes on May 16, 2007 at Eunice Manor Nursing Home in Eunice, Louisiana at the age of 91. Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin was a crucial link to the musique Creole traditions of a bygone era -- his music kept alive the Creole "la la" music which developed in the African-American communities of his native southwestern Louisiana, and which was a clear antecedent of the contemporary zydeco sound. He is buried in Caesar Cemetery in Duralde, Louisiana.