With its own band, the group sings and dances the music from the l8th and l9th centuries and re-creates a wedding from the year 1900. Their music paints a vivid picture of the way the Louisiana Cajuns lived two hundred years ago and encompasses the various ethnicities which have contributed to Louisiana culture.
Research is in progress on a dance brought by Spanish settlers in the eighteenth century.
The group often combines song and dance in selections which include French and Acadian songs and Fais Trois Tours, which highlights the Afro-Creole tradition in Louisiana. The group performed in the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April 2000. Renaissance Cadienne was awarded the Prize for Authenticity in June of l997, given by the Sacres du Folklore in Reims, France, and received the Cultural Heritage Preservation Award by VermilionVille in August 1998. The group's hallmarks are audience participation and flexibility. They have taught songs and dances to children, senior citizens, and handicapped adults, on both sides of the Atlantic.