Alt-Folk 2026, Alt-Country Authenticity, Mainstream Music Crisis, Inflection Point Music Industry, Cajun Dead, Independent Folk, Conscious Music Featured Academic French-Acadian Artist Culture Discrepancies Exposed as Independent Self-Representing Artist Gains Visibility A review of academic Acadian artist culture, institutional gatekeeping, and self-representing contemporary art, featuring Claude Edwin Theriault
Open AI Featured How Theriault Is Using AI to Break the Art World Wide Open Claude Edwin Theriault uses AI to create archetypal, collaborative artworks that ripple across the evolving art world of the Ripples Alliance.
Acadian culture Featured Cajun Dead et le Talkin’ Stick: Rebooting Acadian Culture One Raw Lyric at a Time Cajun Dead et le Talkin’ Stick a necessary cultural reset from the dull and uninspired 70th anniversary of the same old Oligarch bastard rule.
Nova Scotia tourism industry Featured Kitchen Parties and Pocket Pool: Why Nova Scotia’s Acadian Culture Deserves More Than a Halifax-Centric Honky Media Fairy Tale The Nova Scotia tourism thrives on airbrushed images of Acadian culture: vibrant kitchen parties, fiddle music, and proud historical narratives.
Cajun Dead and the Talkin`Stick Featured Podcast interview with Cajun Dead et le Talkin Stick New innovative Acadian music project actually challenging long-held traditions and giving voice to marginalized experiences within the community.
Acadian Community Featured Insular Self-Sustaining Oligarchic Circle of Acadian Heritage Patrimonial Industry Acadian patrimonial industry, deeply embedded, operates in a good celebratory way but, behind the scenes, a self-sustaining oligarchic hierarchy.
