Sarah Savoy and the Francadians
Sarah Savoy & the Francadians are a group of hard-working and hard-living Cajun musicians based in Paris.
Sarah was born and raised in Louisiana, the daughter of Cajun's two most influential musicians, Ann and Marc Savoy. Her band has quickly gained a reputation in the UK for their driving dance-hall Cajun, rousing Rockabilly and sizzling Zydeco, with outstanding festival performances all over, from Americana at The Sage to Blues on the Farm in Chichester - with WOMAD Charlton Park in both 2008 and 2009.
Sarah is a powerful front women, her own original compositions speaking with a voice until now virtually unheard in Cajun music. Sarah sings in celebration of the modern woman, strong, independent, and fun-loving, rather than only lamenting the traditional position of la femme abandonnée (”the abandoned woman”). Keeping her audiences dancing, Sarah belts out sassy blues, growls through honky-tonk-inspired Cajun songs of the 1940’s and 50’s, and wails the bitterness of some of Cajun music's most forlorn waltzes.
A qualified Louisiana chef, Sarah has turned this skill into an entertainment format leading Cajun cookery demonstrations in which she cooks up a range of authentic Louisiana dishes, accompanied with live music from her band guaranteed to whet the appetite.
"......the afternoon belonged to Sarah Savoy & The Francadians cooking up a storm in the Taste the World tent..." WOMAD report in Bath Chronicle.
