Thursday, January 10 at 8 pm at The Barns
Ticket Price: $27
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet
General Admission Dance
Tickets
   

Join “the best Cajun band in the world” (Garrison Keillor) for a Bayou bash featuring an unrivaled fiddler.

  • These red-hot trailblazers of contemporary Cajun music draw from zydeco, New Orleans jazz, Caribbean calypso, and more. They have performed their daring music all across the world, including stops at the Super Bowl XXX Halftime Show and as regular guests on A Prairie Home Companion.
  • Since their start in 1975, BeauSoleil has released 29 albums, including the latest release, Alligator Purse (2009), which AllMusic.com says stays true “to regional ingredients like accordion and a steady Cajun backbeat, resulting in the kind of all-day street party that welcomes both purists and tourists with open arms...”
  • The first Cajun band to win a GRAMMY Award, BeauSoleil first won Best Traditional Folk Album in 1997 for L’amour Ou La Folie and a second GRAMMY for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album in 2008 for Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
  •  “Cajun music purists admire fiddler Michael Doucet’s informed command of traditional Cajun music, while those who just want to party surrender to BeauSoleil and boogie to classic Cajun two-steps, reels, and a host of other rhythmic influences that have made this GRAMMY-winning Crescent City outfit one of the most colorful roots bands on the scene.”—The New York Times