text:  He kind of convinced me that I should do that, and by then I was starting to go all the time to little courriels, to Mardi Gras runs and all these little dance halls. And I had met Boisset, Ardoin, at Mariposa, this festival up in Canada. I didn't speak any French. I had only studied Spanish. But he said to me something I never forgot. He said, when you come to Louisiana, come see us at the house.