Jazz has Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, rock has Lynyrd Skynyrd and Zydeco has Canray Fontenot. The Creole fiddler was an award-winning Louisiana musician whose original compositions withstood the test of time to become standards in traditional Zydeco and Cajun music. Read more.
Month: October 2014
Watch a 1998 TV clip featuring Philly’s Alligator Zydeco Band
Back in 1998 the Philadelphia-based Alligator Zydeco Band appeared on Inside Indre, a TV segment filmed at South Philly’s Indre Studios that showcased local bands. Alligator Zydeco Band features the father-daughter team of Greg and Laura Troiano, a pair that has made a name for itself throughout the Zydeco circles both in their hometown and beyond. Read more.
Celebrating 39 years of Clifton Chenier’s Bogalusa Boogie
October is the anniversary of a landmark recording in zydeco. In 1975 Clifton Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band trekked to the Studio in the Country, in Bogalusa, Louisiana to lay down Bogalusa Boogie, a record that still holds up today. Read more.
Floyd’s Record Shop monthly vinyl picks
Floyd’s Record Shop monthly music picks
Watch C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band at XPoNential Music Festival
To kick off our Zydeco Crossroads project, the legendary C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band performed at this summer’s XPOnential Music Festival. Watch a performance and interview video trailer for a documentary. Read more
Learning how to Zydeco dance with Cupid
Allons Danser hosting Halloween pot-luck with Zydeco-A-Go-Go on 11/1
Philadelphia’s Zydeco dance community Allons Danser will be hosting a Halloween pot-luck and Zydeco party at The TK Club in Conshohocken on November 1st with Zydeco-A-Go-Go. Read more.
Watch Corey Ledet and his Zydeco Band perform “Promised Land Two Step” for KRVS
Houston-born musician Corey Ledet is a lifelong student of Zydeco music, having begun his playing career when he was just ten years old with Wilbert Thibodeaux and the Zydeco Rascals. Read more.