Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet
BeauSoleil or Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet is a group specializing in cajun music, founded in 1975. It's based in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.
BeauSoleil or Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet is a group specializing in cajun music, founded in 1975. It's based in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.
Perhaps more properly tagged as The Red Stick Ramblers.
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Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys are a Cajun band band from southern Louisiana. The band formed in 1988 and has since recorded 10 albums, nine of which are on Rounder Records.
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Over the past 300 years, a cultural amalgam has been percolating in south Louisiana. The resulting cultural distillate gave rise to both Bayou Country's world famous cuisine and a musical concentrate that conveys the passions, tribulations, and elations of the Cajun people. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Lost Bayou Ramblers are the keepers of the flame, champions of Cajun music's cultural past.
K~Passa (kay'passa) n. 1.Collective name for a group of musical creatures, often seen frequenting the West Country. 2.Loud folk rock noise, can cause crowd euphoria. 3.Probable cause for outbreaks of spontaneous dancing [que-passa] Manic Sqeeze-box driven Cajun Folk Rock Formed in 1988, this UK folk rock group has had numerous line-up changes throughout the decades. Local recognition led to their appearance on the main stage at the 1992 Glastonbury Festival. Their blend of folk, Cajun, dub and reggae are eminently displayed on the live cassette, Two Back From The Front.
In short...rootsy, down south with a traditional French influence
BeauSoleil is a musical group specializing in Cajun music. Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, the group members are brothers Michael Doucet (fiddle, vocals) and David Doucet (guitar, vocals), Jimmy Breaux (accordion), Billy Ware (percussion), Tommy Alesi (percussion), and Al Tharp (bass, fiddle). Founded in 1975, BeauSoleil (often billed as "BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet") released its first album in 1977 and became one of the most well-known bands performing traditional and original music rooted in the folk tunes of the creole and Cajun people of Louisiana.
One of a small handful of women in Zydeco, this Louisiana native