Blair Kilpatrick's Books
Jan.01.2009
An outsider's account of her transformative obsession with Louisiana's joyous music.
By age thirty-nine, Blair Kilpatrick had settled into life as a practicing psychologist, wife, and mother. Then a chance encounter in New Orleans turned her world upside down. She returned home to Chicago with unlikely new passions for Cajun music and its signature instrument, the...
Apr.11.2003
The debut recording of Sauce Piquante, the traditional Cajun-Creole band I established in 1999. Recorded live in March 2003 at a couple of SF Bay Area venues. I play the accordion, do most of the singing (it's all in Cajun French) and wrote the liner notes. It was dedicated to the memory of my friend and mentor Danny Poullard, the prominent Louisiana-born Creole accordionist...
A lyrical, deeply felt, and beautifully rendered memoir of a mid-life love affair with Cajun music that ultimately transforms a psychologist’s life, while enriching those of its readers.
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—Doreen Orion, psychiatrist and author of "Queen of the Road"
About Blair
I am the author of a music memoir ("Accordion Dreams: A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music, University Press of Mississippi, January 2009) and the accordionist/vocalist in Cajun-Creole band Sauce Piquante. I live with my fiddler-husband Steve in the San...
Connections
Causes Blair Kilpatrick Supports
Louisiana Folk Roots, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Habitat for Humanity/Musician's Village New Orleans, Doctors Without Borders