The Grammy winning bad boys of BeauSoleil with Michael Doucet along with Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-Chas play the second to last show of the Downtown Alive season at Parc International. Since forming in 1975, Grammy winners BeauSoleil have claimed their undisputed role as the most esteemed Cajun group in music – and are one of the leading forces in its preservation and growth. Described as “Evolutionary Cajun,” BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet takes the rich Cajun traditions of Louisiana and genetically splices elements of zydeco, New Orleans jazz, Tex-Mex, country, blues and more. Do not try this at home...unless you’ve got a lab coat and a record collection worthy of this highly artistic blend. BeauSoleil performs what is essentially traditional fiddle and accordion-oriented Cajun music with a contemporary, lively feel. When performed in open air venues, their music is rumored to magically levitate inanimate objects. Performers are Michael Doucet, violin, guitar, accordion, mandolin and vocals; David Doucet, guitar and vocals; Jimmy Breaux, accordion; Billy Ware, percussion; Tommy Alesi, drums; Mitch Reed, bass, fiddle, banjo and electric guitar.
Also on the bill tonight are Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas. This family band, led by Nathan Williams, grew up in a Creole-speaking home and now entertains audiences with upbeat, accordion-based dance music with groove as deep as a water well. The band’s down-home parables are delivered with surprising musical turns and a distinctive Caribbean lilt that reaches back to the very beginnings of Creole culture in Louisiana as well to the arcane beginnings of mankind. The band members are Nathan Williams, accordion; Dennis Williams, guitar; Mark Williams, rub board; James Prejean, bass; and Herman Brown, drums.
Downtown Alive starts at 6:00 p.m. at Parc International.
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.
The Grammy winning bad boys of BeauSoleil with Michael Doucet along with Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-Chas play the second to last show of the Downtown Alive season at Parc International. Since forming in 1975, Grammy winners BeauSoleil have claimed their undisputed role as the most esteemed Cajun group in music – and are one of the leading forces in its preservation and growth. Described as “Evolutionary Cajun,” BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet takes the rich Cajun traditions of Louisiana and genetically splices elements of zydeco, New Orleans jazz, Tex-Mex, country, blues and more. Do not try this at home...unless you’ve got a lab coat and a record collection worthy of this highly artistic blend. BeauSoleil performs what is essentially traditional fiddle and accordion-oriented Cajun music with a contemporary, lively feel. When performed in open air venues, their music is rumored to magically levitate inanimate objects. Performers are Michael Doucet, violin, guitar, accordion, mandolin and vocals; David Doucet, guitar and vocals; Jimmy Breaux, accordion; Billy Ware, percussion; Tommy Alesi, drums; Mitch Reed, bass, fiddle, banjo and electric guitar.
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