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Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys
Rosie Ledet has become the act to watch on the Zydeco circuit. Brimming with coy sensuality, Rosie’s music is fresh and daring, while still retaining its links to its bayou Creole heritage. Rosie has a rare combination of talent, not only in the Zydeco world, but in any musical genre. She can write top-notch award winning songs, hang with the best of them on her instrument, and can sing circles around her peers. Rosie is among the few Zydeco artists who can still sing and write some of their own material in Creole French.
Savoy Family Band
The Savoy Family Cajun Band plays honed down, hard-core Cajun music laced with an earthy sensuality. In their hands, the old tunes have been revived and returned to new life. Marc and Ann Savoy and their sons Joel and Wilson are strong individual musicians working together to create a tight, intense sound. Maintaining a more acoustic approach to Cajun music, the Savoy Family Cajun Band can nonetheless hold its own amongst Cajun music lovers everywhere, and takes pride in drawing considerable power from four acoustic instruments. Sometimes the group demonstrates the way Cajun music has evolved by featuring the early double fiddle – triangle sound or an accordion – fiddle duet. Early French ballads are added to the program to show other historic elements of early southwest Louisiana.
Geno Delafose
Geno Delafose is a zydeco accordionist and singer. He is one of the younger generations of the genre who has created the sound known as the nouveau zydeco. His sound is deeply rooted in traditional Creole music with strong influences from Cajun music and also country and western. His father is the famous zydeco accordion player John Delafose. Geno was born and raised in Eunice, Louisiana. At the age of eight, he joined his father’s band, the Eunice Playboys as a rubboard player[2] and continued to play with the band until his father’s death in 1994. He also appeared on the several of the bands recordings. He switched to the accordion in the early 1990s and started to play as an opening act for his father. In 1994, he debuted with album French Rockin’ Boogie on Rounder Records. The name of this album also became the name of his band with whom he still plays with today. He released two more albums from the label, before signing with Time Square label to release Everybody’s Dancin’ in 2003. He has also appeared on the compilation album Creole Bred: A Tribute to Creole & Zydeco released in 2004 on Vanguard Records. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the “Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album” category for his Le Cowboy Creole album (2007).
Feufollet
Welcome to the world of Feufollet, a band both deeply rooted in the francophone soil of Louisiana and pushing boldly into unexplored yet utterly natural varieties of Cajun experience. Though famous for their renditions of heartbreaking songs and rollicking tunes, the quintet breaks new ground on En Couleurs (Feufollet Records; June 8, 2010) featuring originals that draw on deep roots tempered by a cutting edge of contemporary life. Beyond mere language, however, Feufollet’s originals capture the spirit of Cajun tradition without kowtowing to it. “Au Fond du Lac” paints a picture of love gone wrong in shades taken from nature, from the trees, blossoms, and lakes. Yet in quirky contrast to the traditional imagery, the chorus was honed by singer and songwriter Anna Laura Edmiston on her iPhone voice recorder on a 28-hour cross-country drive to Los Angeles. These originals flowed out of the band’s lives, inspired by their long-standing love of Cajun tradition and the new genre-bending indie spirit that has infused the Lafayette, Louisiana scene they call home.
Cedric Watson
Cajun and zydeco music are unique genres in the American landscape because of their sound, their history and their continued significance to two groups displaced from their homelands into the bayous of Louisiana: the Cajuns and the Creoles. One man straddles the two genres. Texas-born Cedric Watson, now a four-time Grammy nominee, is seemingly an outsider in this landscape, but he is reviving l’esprit Creole (the Creole spirit). In what would prove to be a propitious gig, at last year’s Festival International de Louisiane’s Rhythms and Roots series at Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette, Watson et Bijou Créole appeared along with Morikeba Kouyate of Senegal. The two alternated, imitating and complementing each other’s instruments through a series of traditional West African and zydeco tunes.
Magnolia Sisters
The Magnolia Sisters is a band of women who can play the whole gamut of musical styles from southwest Louisiana: Cajun, Creole, dance hall favorites, and front porch ballads. Because of their many rhythmic styles they are loved by dancers, who marvel at the variety of fun grooves they play. A musical evening with Magnolia Sisters is a fun and enriching experience as they explain the meanings of the songs, move between accordion two-steps, twin fiddle tunes, heavy bass Creole hits, dance hall standards and unaccompanied songs. Their most recent CD “Tripped Down” (Arhoolie Records), was nominated for a Grammy in 2010.
C ‘est Bon Cajun Dance Band
What do you get when the women of NY’s top Cajun bands combine their musical talents? C’est Bon Cajun Dance Band: hard-rockin, foot-stompin, girl-powered Cajun dance hall music! C’est Bon includes the three original Cri de Bayou members, Barbara Sanders on accordion, Jane Delisa and Susi Mills (Bayou Road Krewe) on twin fiddles, Betsy Fuller (All Night Ramblers) on guitar, and Evelyn Schneider (Jesse Lege and Bayou Brew) on bass. These harmonious sisters have been singing and playing Cajun dance hall music to crowds in the northeast for over seventeen years, keeping the spirit alive and well. They’ll rock the house and keep you dancing from start to finish!
Kevin Naquin & The Ossun Playboys
Kevin Naquin and the Ossun Playboys have arrived! This time, the swamps of Southwest Louisiana have given birth to a young, Cajun band that’s definitely the “Real Deal”. These guys play Cajun music the way it’s supposed to be played, keeping true to their traditional heritage, yet pushing the limits of groove with a mature experimentation that’s guaranteed to keep you dancing. Kevin Naquin and the Ossun Playboys pack the dance floor every time with his pumping accordion rising like steam from the hot gumbo he calls the Ossun Playboys. The Ossun Playboys have released multiple award winning albums and their live shows have also earned them numerous prestigious awards from the Cajun French Music Association. Kevin Naquin and the Ossun Playboys and their pulsing two-steps and historical waltz are bound to keep your dancing shoes workin’ and sweat on your brow!
DANCE INSTRUCTORS
Glenn Laigast & Lori Betraut
Glenn Laigast and Lori Bertaut, who are both South Louisiana natives, dance and teach in the New Orleans area twice a week. They have successfully taught many area students how to dance Zydeco, Cajun and Whiskey River. Glenn has been doing Cajun dancing since he was a teenager, because his mother was Cajun-French from Southwest Louisiana. He was introduced to Zydeco over 26 years ago. Lori, who’s background is Ballroom, was raised in a dancing family. Her dad taught dancing for Arthur Murray Studios for many years. Lori’s introduction to Zydeco and Cajun dancing happened in 2006. Their dance classes have been very successful as they have increased in numbers monthly. They, along with some of their students, are seen dancing at many festivals and also in movie shoots such as Treme. Lori and Glenn have previously taught dance at the Gator By The Bay Festival in San Diego, Medina Lake Festival in San Antonio area, Daphne Festival in Alabama, and many local dance festivals in South Louisiana.
Sharon Stern & Dwight Dupree
As Zydeco dance partners, Sharon Stern and Dwight Dupree emulate the minimalist Creole dance style of the Southwest Louisiana natives. When a Cajun band takes center stage, their dance style varies from the traditional waltz and two-step to a more modern jitterbug, prevalent in today’s Louisiana dance halls. Their instructional methodology removes the mystery from seemingly complicated dance steps, enabling the first-time dancer to quickly get the hang of it and “pass a good time.”
Jerry Carrier & Tricia Wurts
Experience music and dancing indigenous to southwest Louisiana, now widely popular throughout the United States, Europe and Australia as well as other parts of the world. Lead instructor Jerry Carrier has taught Zydeco and Cajun rhythms for 15 years. Jerry’s motto: “If I can do this anyone can.” His teaching partner, Tricia Wurts, has danced most of her life both professionally and for fun, and has been dancing Zydeco and Cajun, as well as other dances, locally for the past 15 years! Jerry and Trish have been working as an instructional team for five years. Together they try to make it as simple as possible to learn.
