The Magnolia Sisters is a band of women who can play many styles of French music from southwest Louisiana. (See our press reviews). From dancehall Cajun to primitive Creole, from house music to front porch ballads, they are an ideal band for concerts, festivals, or rockin' dance parties. Part of the body of the Magnolia Sisters music has been gleaned from a long-buried wealth of Cajun jewels found in the Sisters’ extensive music archives.

Though these older songs are some of the most unusual aspects of our sound, they also love to play Cajun standards in a hardcore dancehall style and primitive Creole numbers that they learned from Creole masters like Canray Fontenot and Preston Frank.They take beautiful and long-lost songs from old collections and sweep off the cobwebs to bring them back in all their richness.

One thing that makes the Sisters music so appealing is our shared ability as multi-instrumentalists; each band member plays several different instruments. In our shows we move between twin fiddle tunes, heavy bass Creole hits, dancehall standards and accapella songs.  This makes a musical evening with Magnolia Sisters a fun and enriching experience.

Their latest CD, Stripped Down, finds them back on the Arhoolie label. This CD was nominated for a Grammy in 2010. Before that they released two CDs on the Rounder label, Apres Faire le boogie Woogie and Chers Amis (2000). Their first CD, Prends Courage, was released in 1995 on Arhoolie Records. Their second release, Chers Amis was on Rounder Records in 2000. Both ofthese recordings include Cajun standards, riotous swingband numbers, blues, acapella ballads, fiddle duets, some slightly altered to reflect a woman's viewpoint.