event BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet
Also Playing: The Brass Kings
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Sat Jan 2
8 pm
BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet and The Brass Kings at Cedar Cultural Center
Formed by Michael Doucet, a fiddler and singer immersed in Cajun music’s past and present, BeauSoleil is like a Cajun history lesson—only, you know, fun, what with its exuberant fiddle and accordion duels. Over the course of 20-plus albums in the past three decades, the band has blended other forms into the tradition, from Appalachian fingerpicking to Tex-Mex to New Orleans second-line jazz. The band won a Grammy in 2009 for the concert album Live At The 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and it’s touring now behind the new studio disc Alligator Purse, featuring guest work from Natalie Merchant and The Band’s Garth Hudson.
Cedar Cultural Center 416 Cedar Ave. S., Twin Cities, MN
Formed by Michael Doucet, a fiddler and singer immersed in Cajun music’s past and present, BeauSoleil is like a Cajun history lesson—only, you know, fun, what with its exuberant fiddle and accordion duels. Over the course of 20-plus albums in the past three decades, the band has blended other forms into the tradition, from Appalachian fingerpicking to Tex-Mex to New Orleans second-line jazz. The band won a Grammy in 2009 for the concert album Live At The 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and it’s touring now behind the new studio disc Alligator Purse, featuring guest work from Natalie Merchant and The Band’s Garth Hudson.
Updated 11/02/2010
