 He is perhaps best known for his 1964 performance at the Newport Folk Festival with Gladius Thibodeaux and Vinus LeJeune, where the group received an enthusiastic response from over seventeen thousand audience members.He sang the song "Parlez Nous à Boire" in the 1981 cult film "Southern Comfort", in which he had a small role.Dewey Balfa was born in Grand Louis, Louisiana, a small community west of Mamou.