Savoy Music Center

Marc Savoy has built Cajun accordions by hand here since the 1960s — one at a time, the same diatonic button accordion that defines the Cajun sound. Saturday morning jam sessions at the shop have drawn musicians for decades. His wife Ann Savoy is one of the foremost scholars and performers of Cajun and Creole music. Their son Joel Savoy runs Valcour Records, a leading label for Louisiana traditional music. The family has done more to document and sustain the Cajun musical tradition than any single institution in Louisiana. That's not promotional copy — it's the actual record. Marc building accordions in the back. Ann teaching and performing. Joel recording and releasing the work of musicians who would otherwise go undocumented. The shop sits on the highway east of Eunice, and the Saturday jam is the best time to visit.