It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

Happy Hour is billed as "Random conversation with folks who have nothing in common." Anything that s truly random will, sooner or later, appear to us not to be. Like flipping a coin and getting four "heads" in a row. Or inviting random people to sit around a table at a bar in New Orleans and discover they re all Cajun. Louis Michot is the fiddle player and lead singer in the Cajun band Lost Bayou Ramblers. You don t get much more Cajun than Louis and his tales of Petit Paris aka St Martinville , living in Broussard, Lafayette, and out in the woods of Arnaudville. Louis plays two songs on this Happy Hour, accompanied on one of them by fellow Cajun Andrew Duhon. Here in New Orleans we pronounce Andrew s name Doo Hon but if you go a few miles West just how many is open to debate it s pronounced Doo Yong. Until you get a few miles out of Lafayette, into Texas, where it reverts to doo hon, as evidenced by Louis dog whose name was Clint Duhon, pronounced the Port Arthur way cause that s where he came from. Lizzie G