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Zydeco is the music of the French speaking Creoles of Louisiana which has evolved over the past 150 years, an amalgam music that has integrated all sorts of traditional and nontraditional forms of dance and folk tunes.  Today this lively music is played by hundreds of Zydeco bands in America and Europe; it even has its own category in the Grammy awards. 

This second photograph of the Cajun singer is a little different in tone than the first.  Here she is not singing but rather more introspective.  She appears to be concentrating on her singing.  In this image I particularly like the angle of the instrument and the turn of her head which captures and conveys movement.  This shot is cropped tighter than the first which reduces the amount of background we have to contend with. 

Her facial expression is interesting, almost defiant, unusual for a shot of a performing musician.  There is one thing that bothers me.  The skull and cross bones on the accordion keeps drawing my attention away from the subject.  I know it was there and is part of her persona  Perhaps it is just me but I find it a little distracting.

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