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Opelousas welcomes “Zydeco Music” exhibit to town

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Julie Miller

Opelousas, LA residents have a new way of exploring the history of their native music. According to Offbeat Magazine, a “Zydeco Music” exhibit has opened in the city’s Vieux Village Welcome Center and focuses on the music’s historical trajectory. Read more

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Listen to Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas Zydeco Crossroads concert

Posted on July 10, 2015July 10, 2015 by Bruce Warren

Listen to Nathan & The Zydeco Cha-Chas Zydeco Crossroads concert from June 26 at Penns Landing Caterers. Listen here

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BBC News

Watch BBC News’ feature on Louisiana’s Creole cowboys

Posted on July 9, 2015July 9, 2015 by Julie Miller

Opening with Herman Fuselier’s KRVS intro, BBC News’ new feature on zydeco digs into the Creole cowboy and trail ride traditions of Southwest Louisiana. Read more

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Rusty Metoyer

Dance with Rusty Metoyer and the Zydeco Krush at the TK Club this Friday

Posted on July 6, 2015July 6, 2015 by Julie Miller

When Rusty Metoyer made his TK Club debut two years ago, he had just released his first record Take My Hand. He and his Zydeco Krush band will bring their contemporary zydeco music to the Conshohocken venue again this Friday, July 10th. Read more

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Lost Bayou Ramblers

XPN brings Lost Bayou Ramblers to Lancaster, PA next month

Posted on June 27, 2015June 26, 2015 by Julie Miller

Louisiana’s Lost Bayou Ramblers will be in our neck of the woods next month when they perform at WXPN’s XPoNential Music Festival on the Camden waterfront. If you can’t make it to their Friday night set on July 24th, though,  you’ll have a second chance to see the Grammy Award-nominated Cajun band at Tellus 360 in Lancaster, PA the following night. Read more

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nathan williams

Watch the live webcast of Nathan & The Zydeco Cha-Chas on Friday, June 26th.

Posted on June 25, 2015June 25, 2015 by Bruce Warren

Friday night, June 26th at 8:30pm ET, Zydeco Crossroads presents Nathan & The Zydeco Cha-Chas live in concert via WXPN and VuHaus. The zydeco legend will be performing at Penns Landing Caterers in Philadelphia. Watch the concert live here tomorrow night at 8:30pm ET.

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Soul Creole

Soul Creole press pause on rising stardom

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Herman Fuselier

For two years, Soul Creole, a Cajun and zydeco jam band, created a buzz that captured attention from gigs before movie stars in New Orleans to NPR. But commitments to other bands and family matters have forced members to put the group on “indefinite hiatus,” according to founder and fiddler Louis Michot. Read more

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Paul Scott

Paul Scott: A helping hand to zydeco, Creole culture

Posted on June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 by Herman Fuselier

Paul Scott admits he had little interest in zydeco music when he graduated from Opelousas High School in 1982. That same year, a strange concept, something called a zydeco festival, was launched in the nearby community of Plaisance.

A year later, Scott was selling tickets to the event – the Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival. Thirty years later, zydeco festivals stretch from California to Raamsdonksveer, Holland. Read more

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nathan williams

Two opportunities to see Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas next week

Posted on June 18, 2015June 25, 2015 by Julie Miller

Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas will be in Philadelphia next week for two free concerts.

On Wednesday, June 24th the Lafayette, LA band takes over Dilworth Park at City Hall for WXPN’s Live at Lunch series. Then on Friday, June 26th Williams and dance instructor Harold Guillory join us for the next Zydeco Crossroads Dance Party at Penn’s Landing Caterers.

Check out our Artist Spotlight on Williams below. Go here for more details on Wednesday’s show, and here to RSVP for Friday’s party. Read more

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louisiana

New documentary highlights Louisiana’s changing music and landscape

Posted on June 15, 2015June 15, 2015 by Julie Miller

In an article for Lafayette’s The Advertiser, Zydeco Crossroads contributor Herman Fuselier highlights a new documentary called By the River of Babylon. The film airs tomorrow evening on WORLD Channel‘s America Reframed program. It will be available worldwide at worldchannel.org beginning Wednesday, June 17th. Read more

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