Preserving the French Creole culture of southern Illinois, Indiana and Missouri has been a mission of educator and musician Dennis Stroughmatt. The fiddler and historian presents “French Creole Fiddle ...

GREAT BARRINGTON -- The Guthrie name invokes folk music -- and tomorrow night, the soul of a Creole music jam will fill the center owned by Woody's son, Arlo, when Den nis Stroughmatt et l'Esprit ...

HARTFORD – Lewis and Clark State Historic Site will host a special program on the unique French Creole culture of Illinois as historian and musician Dennis Stroughmatt will use folk tales and fiddle ...

The first European culture to establish roots in Illinois - French Creoles along the Illinois, Wabash, and Mississippi Rivers - would in many places be supplanted by later Anglo and German American ...

Scores of cultures developed along the banks of the Mississippi River. Dennis Stroughmatt learned appreciation of the fiddle in the historically French Creole community of Old Mines, near Ste.

Though he’s widely known for his Creole Stomp dance band, there’s another intriguing angle to Dennis Stroughmatt as revealed by this collection of French Creole fiddle tunes and ballads from Old Upper ...

Sounds of jigs, reels and quadrilles will fill Lewistown next weekend when the 20th annual Metis Celebration and Powwow brings Metis to town to acknowledge their unique culture, with Native American ...

Scores of cultures developed along the banks of the Mississippi River. Dennis Stroughmatt learned appreciation of the fiddle in the historically French Creole community of Old Mines, near Ste.