Sean Ardoin

Sean Ardoin – Happy with Alternative Creole

After taking a lengthy break from music, Sean Ardoin is now firmly back on the scene. He's overcome poor health and self-doubt to co-create a sound that he wants the world to hear. In this interview with Kreol ...
Watson

Henry Watson – Making new art from old wood

Henry Watson favours the Cypress variety of softwood from which to fashion his unique artworks. He finds them in old slave houses, old barns, and other buildings that have been built over one hundred years ago....
Wilbert

Wilbert Richard – A Farmer’s Son Turned Soldier

Wilbert Richard left his family farm to join the Marines when he was 17 and narrowly missed tours in Vietnam and Okinawa. His recollections of his grandfather and great-grandfather give a great picture of histo...
Cane River Black Creoles

Revisiting the Cane River Black Creoles

It was halfway déjà vu as I drove north on I-49 beyond Alexandria, Louisiana and turned off at exit 119. But on the previous occasion, the day after Rickey Norman’s homegoing at Saint Charles Borromeo Church in...
Bobby recipe

Recipes – Crawfish Étouffée

For as long as I remember, I would always hear my family say, “if you want the best taste, you must invest in the best products.”  so, when I prepare my Crawfish Étouffée, I insist on only fresh, never fro...
Matthew & Xavier Paul

Matthew & Xavier Paul – Brothers in baseball

Brothers Matthew and Xavier Paul developed a love of baseball from an early age and both have been able to successfully forge a career out of their chosen sport. Kreol Magazine caught up with the siblings in th...
Beloved Outcast

Book Review – Beloved Outcast

Lorena Dureau Paperback, 1987, 429 pages Publisher: Paperjacks ISBN-10: 0770105084 Beautiful Nicole D’Arecenaux is unjustly accused of killing a gendarme and is sentenced to death by hanging. But her senten...