She's No Wilting Violet: Amanda Shaw and "The Meek Maids Reel"

Our random tune for today is by a Cajun fiddler from Louisiana. From Mandeville, Louisiana, Amanda Shaw first began playing classical violin at age 4 but by age 8 had begun playing and performing Cajun music. We (Mike and Megan) lived in New Orleans from 2000 - 2004 and we would often hear Johnny Fasullo (The Ragin' Cajun), who hosted a weekly Cajun and zydeco music show on WWOZ, play songs from Amanda Shaw's first album that she made at age 11 called Little Black Dog. She and her band The Cute Guys are regular performers around New Orleans, and she has released five albums. While her music is always based in the traditional Cajun styles, she has also incorporated more modern roots, southern, and country styles into her albums. This song, The Meek Maids Reel, is a more traditional instrumental number and can be found on her 2010 album Good Southern Girl. The video is from a performance she did on a New Orleans morning television show.

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Shaw; https://www.amandashaw.com/home