Indigenous music fans from across the globe are familiar with Arhoolie Records.
If you’re not here’s some background: Founded by Chris Strachwitz in 1960, Arhoolie Records is one of the premier roots record labels, with the best in blues, Cajun, zydeco, Tex-Mex/Tejano, gospel, jazz, country, bluegrass, and regional music from around the world. Through the years, Strachwitz has recorded both known and obscure artists, and brought their music to wider audiences. Among the notable musicians who have recorded for Arhoolie are Big Mama Thornton, Flaco Jimenez, Clifton Chenier, Lightning Hopkins and Rose Maddox.
Anyway, at 1 p.m.. Friday on KRVS 88.7 FM, the program American Routes airs Arhoolie Records 50th Anniversary Celebration, which also doubles as a benefit for the Arboolie Foundation.
As part of the celebration, the BeauSoleil Trio with Michael Doucet, David Doucet and Mitch Reed are scheduled to play, as is Ry Cooder. Other guests include Santiago Jimenez Jr. with La Familia Peña-Govea, Los Cenzontles, Any Old Time String Band, Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum.
Dead Stop with K-Doe ...
Not sure if you caught Fresh Air this morning on KRVS 88.7 FM, but in the segment Dead Stop, Ben Sandmel, no stranger to the area through his music writing and drumming with the Hackberry Ramblers, was interviewed about Ernie K-Doe.
The story, part of the NPR summer series, was titled “Beyond the Music in St. Louis Cemetery No 2.”
Sandmel knows what he’s talking about. His latest book is Ernie K-Doe, The R&B Emperor of New Orleans.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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