DELILAH LEE LEWIS (FIDDLE) 
The Creole Belles are distinguished by the high-energy, traditional fiddle style of Delilah, who has been playing Cajun music since 1978. She moved to Eunice, Louisiana in 1982 to study this music while working as Director of Nursing at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Crowley, LA. She was there for almost three years where she spent much of her time playing fiddle and studying with many of the great Cajun and Creole musicians including Denis McGee, Wade Fruge, Canray Fontenot & Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, Dewey Balfa, the Carriere brothers, Marc & Ann Savoy, and Michael Doucet. She sat in with and played occasional gigs with Beausoleil. She was on faculty at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, 2000, in Port Townsend, WA with her great friend and teacher Danny Poullard.
MAUREEN KARPAN (ACCORDION) 
Maureen has been playing Cajun accordion since 1992. For seven years she led the Bay Area Cajun band Frog Legs. She has spent months at a time in Louisiana to play Cajun music, but her main teacher and mentor has been the late great Danny Poullard, who moved from Lousiana to California as a young man. Besides Danny, Maureen's teachers have included Marc Savoy, Bois Sec Ardoin, Jesse Lege, Dirk Powell and Preston Frank. She co-led the Bay Area band Big River, has made guest appearances with the All Star Cajun band and the Zydeco Flames, and appears annually at the Accordion Fest at the Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center. Contact maureen.karpan@gmail.com
