Zydeco Musician/Paramedic Jumps Off Stage to Resuscitate Fan and then Continues His Set!

December 2004, Acadian News —It was a typical Saturday night at Tony's Dance Hall in Gueydan , Louisiana , while the crowd two-stepped to the Kickin' Cajuns' Zydeco music. Jamie Bergeron was singing and doing his thing with his accordion when he noticed several in the crowd looking panicstricken. He calmly dropped his accordion and jumped off the stage before the band knew he was gone.

Jamie-the-musician had gone into Jamie-the-paramedic mode and immediately determined that one of his fans had gone into cardiac arrest. Seventy-three-year-old Girlie Thibodeaux had just finished dancing and had sat down at her table. Minutes later, she lay on the floor without a pulse. An Acadian Ambulance paramedic of 14 years, Jamie began breathing life back into Thibodeaux. While he performed life-saver breathing, a first responder performed chest compressions.