The Ind’s favorite flutist — full disclosure: we don’t know many flutists; OK, we don’t know any — bested 60 competitors recently to secure the lone spot studying with master flute instructor Thaddeus Watson at the Frankfurt Conservatory of Music and Art in Germany, one of the most prestigious music schools in Europe. Roldon Brown, who was profiled in a LivingIND cover story last September, will move to Germany soon and begin his studies with Watson in the fall.
“It still has not quite hit me that I won and that I will be moving there in a couple of months!” Brown gushes in an email to The Ind announcing the win. “The other flutists at the live round were all very good and I am honored to be the one that was accepted into Prof. Watson’s studio.”
A UL alumnus and most recently an instructor at the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra’s Conservator of Music, Brown has performed with the ASO as well as the Rapides Symphony. He secured a chair with the latter at the tender age of 19.
Several Ind readers, we’re pleased to say, stepped forward after the story last year — the story detailed not only Roldon’s incredible talent but also his profound stuttering and the financial hardships his family endured in order for him to become a world-class musician — and offered financial help so Roldon could upgrade his instrument.
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.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
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.
competitors recently to secure the lone spot studying with master flute instructor Thaddeus Watson at the Frankfurt Conservatory of Music and Art in Germany, one of the most prestigious music schools in Europe. Roldon Brown, who was profiled in a LivingIND cover story last September, will move to Germany soon and begin his studies with Watson in the fall. 
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