The brothers first played together at family gatherings in the 1940s. This is episode 15 of Caffe Lena: 60 Years of Song. Thank you to Sarah at the Caffe for compiling the list of artists and songs. The Balfa Brothers came to the Caffe in the mid-1970s. Their father, Charles Balfa, a sharecropper, had played fiddle and was a singer. They made their first recordings in 1951. It was the late 1960s that the brothers officially took on the name as The Balfa Brothers. Their mixture of old Cajun tunes