Nicholls State University - La Pirogue Yearbook (Thibodaux, LA)

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Leroy Martin demonstrates his strumming method ot playing -guitar in a presentation ot Nashville and country western music held in Powell Auditorium, Vernon Rodrigue, a local Thibodaux resident, gave a performance of Cajun French folk songs. Lafourche Heritage '76 used the Nicholls campus as a center for events. ' Standing like it was done in the Big Band Era, the Nicholls Stage Band presented a'concert of Dixie- land and jazz music, Bmentennlal 93