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8.18.08 BOOTLEG TONIC VIDEO Saturday, August 23rd - 9:00 - $12  8.18.08 TWO DARK BIRDS VIDEO Friday, August 22nd - 9:00 - $12 8.11.08 JESS KLEIN VIDEO Sunday, August 17th - 8:00 - $15 8.11.08 THE AFROMOTIVE VIDEO Friday, August 15th - 9:00 - $15 8.04.08 CHRISTINE ROSANDER VIDEO Sunday, August 10th - 8:00 - $15 7.27.08 MELORA CREAGER VIDEO Sunday, August 3rd - 8:00 - $15 7.27.08 HAMELL ON TRIAL VIDEO Friday, August 1st - 9:00 - $15 7.21.08 SUGAR SHACK BURLESQUE - LEGS MALONE Saturday, July 26th - 8:00 & 10:30 - $15 7.21.08 GUY DAVIS VIDEO INTERVIEW Friday, July 25th - 9:00 - $20 |
02.11.08 BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO Friday, February 15th - 9:00 - $35 BAYOU DANCE MUSIC - A ZYDECO LEGEND!! Hey Joe (1992 David Letterman Show0 Zydeco is a form of American roots or folk music, that evolved from the jure during the late 1800s call and response vocal music of the black and multiracial French speaking Creoles of south and southwest Louisiana. During the early 20th century this soulful, heavily syncopated, indigenous roots music was discovered by ethnomusicologists and records labels alike. Usually fast-tempo, and dominated by the button or piano accordion and a form of a washboard known as a rub-board or frottoir zydeco music was originally created for house dances so the blacks and free people of color of south Louisiana could gather for socializing. As the Creoles further established their communities and worshiped separately as well, the music moved to the Catholic church community center and then later to the rural dance halls and nightclubs. As a result, the music integrated waltzes, shuffles, two-steps, blues, rock and roll, and most dance music forms of the era. Today, the tradition of change and evolution in the music continues always keeping relevant while integrating even more genres like reggae, urban hip-hop, R&B, soul, brass band, ska, rock, Afro Caribbean and other styles in addition to the traditional forms. The first zydeco vest frottoir (rubboard) was designed by Clifton Chenier, the "King of zydeco," in 1946 while he and his brother, Cleveland, were working at an oil refinery in Port Arthur, TX. The first zydeco rubboard made to Chenier's design was made at Chenier's request by their fellow Louisianian, Willie Landry, a master welder - fabricator, who was also working at the refinery. The zydeco rubboard, designed specifically for the genre solely as a percussion instrument, is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Other instruments common in zydeco include the old world accordion which is found in folk and roots music globally,guitar, bass guitar, drums, fiddle, horns and keyboards. | ||||
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