Last Saturday night zydeco fans old and new gathered together at the Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Center for an evening of music and dance with Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble and dance instructor Harold Guillory. Read more.
Month: December 2014
Listen to Zydeco Crossroads’ Holiday Mixtape
Forget boughs of holly; take a cue from C.J. Chenier and “deck the halls with cayenne pepper” and this playlist of zydeco and other Louisiana holiday tunes. In this first installment of Zydeco Crossroads’ Holiday Mixtape you’ll find seasonal songs by Cupid, Aaron Neville, Kermit Ruffins and more. Listen below and check back next week for more. Read more
Revisit Sense of Place: Lafayette with a vintage Bobby Charles session on World Cafe
To round out their Sense of Place: Lafayette special, World Cafe dug into the archives and pulled out an interview with Louisiana musician Bobby Charles. Growing up twenty miles south of Lafayette in Abbeville, LA, Charles grew up surrounded by early forms of Cajun music that he would go on to modernize. Read more.
Watch Curley Taylor perform “Never Gonna Give You Up” (and sign up for the Dance Party!)
Zydeco: Still Cookin’ – An essay by University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Tsitsi Jaji
Listen to the second episode of the Zydeco Crossroads Radio Hour hosted by Herman Fuselier
Revisit Sense of Place: Lafayette with Michael Doucet on World Cafe
Michael Doucet (of Beausoleil) sat down with World Cafe’s David Dye for an interview during Sense of Place: Lafayette. The Louisiana musician and university professor covered a multitude of topics during the session, including the history of Creole and Cajun cultures in Southwest Louisiana. Read more.
