A & E -> A&E FRI, SEP 14 12:01PM by IND Monthly Staff
Trahan headlines DTA Friday evening
Horace Trahan
Horace Trahan & The Ossun Express headlines Friday’s Downtown Alive at Parc International Friday. One of the most popular zydeco (with hints of Cajun) bands in Acadiana, Trahan and company will start cranking out the grooves at 6 p.m. Concession sales begin a half hour earlier.
Downtown Alive is a free concert series and concession sales help keep it that way so please leave the ice chests (and pets) at home. The music wraps up at 8:30 p.m. Concerts alternate between Parc International and Parc Sans Souci.
Future DTA concerts are Soul Track Mind (Sept. 21), Mercy Brothers (Sept. 28), 5th Avenue (Oct. 5), Mamou/Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys (for a special Festivals Acadiens et Creoles DTA on Oct. 12), Roddie Romero & The Hub City Allstars (Oct. 19), The Revivalists (Oct. 26), Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole (Nov. 2), Nik-L-Beer (Nov. 9), Amanda Shaw & The Cute Boys (Nov. 16) and The Pine Leaf Boys (Nov. 21).
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.
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.