Texas FolkLife Announces 2021 Big Squeeze Winners

Texas FolkLife held its annual Big Squeeze accordion contest on May 8. The contest recognizes young artists who perform in diverse genera of Texas folk music.

This year’s Big Squeeze competition is a bit different from previous years in that Cajun and Zydeco have been split into separate categories. Also for the first time, those two categories have been opened to contestants from Louisiana.

The winners were:

Polka: Alexander French, 14 (The Colony, TX)

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