Septuagenarian Louis LĂ©ger was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, speaking French in an Acadian family. He spent his wild youth in France playing old-time and jugband fiddling with The Stringband, busking in Germany, France, and Switzerland. He moved to Santa Barbara, California in the 1970s and taught fiddle to a host of young fiddlers at the time, including John Travolta. For 20 years, he taught orchestra and band in public schools in California and Oregon. When his son started playing, the two of them focused on French-Canadian fiddling and began a long search for their Acadian roots in the music. These days he mostly plays button accordion, but he’s been known to play fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, and spoons (of which he was once a world champion, before there were world championships).Â