2nd Annual L'argent Trailride and Chicken Run
Posted by rsias on Friday, January 27, 2012 (14:59:20) (175 reads)
2nd Annual L'argent Trailride and Chicken Run
Lil' Nathan Celebrates the Mardi Gras Season
with A Trailride, Chicken Run and CD Release Party!
January 27, 2012
by Rod Sias
www.ZydecoOnline.com
2nd Annual L'argent Trailride and Chicken Run February 17th, 18th, 19th, 2012
ISBF Lodge - Leonville, Louisiana!
Zydeco Nation!!! Lil' Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers will be "Doin' It Big Time" and heating up the Mardi Gras season with the 2nd Annual L'argent Trailride and Chicken Run on February 17th, 18th, & 19th, 2012 at the historic ISBF Logde in Leonville, Louisiana!
If you think this is a typical trailride, you might what to rethink that thought because the 2nd Annual L'argent Trailride and Chicken Run will not only have a host of hot Zydeco and Southern Soul bands, the trairide will host the CD release party of one of the most highly anticipated CDs in the Zydeco Nation!
Lil' Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timer's CD entitled "BIG TIMER NATION - GO HARD OR GO HOME!" has recieved outstanding reviews, and the CD's singles release has recieved a significant amount of radio play. "BIG TIMER NATION - GO HARD OR GO HOME!" is worth the wait, and will be released and heard by the Zydeco Nation on February 17th, 18th, & 19th, 2012!
2nd Annual L'argent Trailride and Chicken Run Commercial
ZydecoOnline Presents: The Zydeco Workout featuring Lola Love-LIVE!
Posted by ZLady on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 (03:04:17) (4402 reads)
ZydecoOnline presents: The Zydeco Workout featuring Lola Love-LIVE! Pioneering Online Zydeco & Southern Soul Webcast becomes part of the KZSU 90.1 FM program
Official Zydeco Workout feat. Lola Love Logo!
Stay connected for upcoming Zydeco Lady Apparel.
Zydeco Nation and Southern Soul Nation!
The Zydeco Workout will be bringing HEAT in 2011 with a
NEW SATURDAY TIME SLOT!!!
YES, WE ARE BACK WITH
A Brand New Time!
A Brand New Look!!
A Brand New Attitude!!!
but still the same
Hot Zydeco Music and that Smooth Southern Soul Sound!
Listen to the Zydeco Workout every Saturday
12:00pm - 3:00pm (Pacific Standard Time)
online at http://kzsu.stanford.edu (KZSU-1)
or live at
90.1 FM (The San Francisco Bay Area)
and catch our monthly webcast online at www.ZydecoOnline.com
The Zydeco and Southern Soul Nation Spoke and KZSU listened!!!
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Opelousas Lives Up To Zydeco Capital Title
Posted by rsias on Saturday, November 12, 2011 (01:00:00) (65 reads)
Opelousas Lives Up To Zydeco Capital Title
November 3, 2011
by Herman Fusilier
The Advertiser Newspaper
Google "zydeco trail ride" and the first result comes from, ironically, the New York Times. The link leads to a lengthy, Times Travel feature, published last April.
Writer Shaila Dewan waxes poetically about her trip to the Pineywoods Trail Ride in Evangeline Parish. Dewan not only details her new love affair with trail rides, she also explains to the Times' 916,000 readers exactly what zydeco is.
"It uses the accordion and washboard, more often called a scrub-board, and went mainstream in the mid-1980s with the help of the hit song "My Toot Toot" and the Dennis Quaid movie "The Big Easy."
Perhaps because of the movie, many people associate zydeco with New Orleans. But zydeco is country music, created by Creole cowboys."
This weekend, Opelousas shows why it's the capital of zydeco country. The city hosts Step-N-Strut, one of the biggest events on the zydeco trail ride circuit. Throw in the Holy Ghost Creole Festival, a separate event that includes lots of zydeco, and it's easy to see why the state legislature crowned Opelousas as the Zydeco Music Capital of the World.
More than 10,000 local residents and visitors are expected to pass through the gates of both three-day events, with many fans spending time at each.
The 19th annual Creole Fest officially starts first with catfish dinners on sale at 10 a.m. Friday and a gospel concert at 7 p.m. Friday. The fest is a fundraiser for Holy Ghost Catholic Church, home of the nation's largest congregation of African-American Catholics.
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Step-N-Strut Draws Crowd
Posted by rsias on Monday, November 07, 2011 (14:10:11) (129 reads)
Step-N-Strut Draws Crowd
November 6, 2011
by William Johnson
The Daily World Newspaper
Riders travel along Highway 31 during the Step-N-Strut Trail Ride, which is a gigantic horse parade,
at Evangeline Downs Sunday, November 6, 2011, in Opelousas.(Photo by Brad Kemp)
Sunday afternoon parking at and around Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino in Opelousas was at a premium for this year's Step-N-Strut Trail Ride.
"We have had about 8,000 to 10,000 people each day. About 70 to 80 percent of them are from out of town," said Torry Lemelle, who with her husband, Dave, has hosted the event for the past 13 years.
One of those out-of-towners was Cardayon Nimer, who made the trip from Houston, Texas.
"It's been wonderful," said Nimer, who has been on the grounds since Friday. "The bands, hanging out with friends and family and having fun, that's what it's all about."
While the event is billed as Louisiana's biggest trail ride, it is the people and an impressive array of Zydeco musicians that brought out most visitors.
Lemelle said the Sunday afternoon ride was strictly limited to 1,000 horses and riders this year. It also followed as many little used roads as possible to limit problems.
While few have objected to the festival, the ride, which has attracted as many as 4,000 riders in past years, has been a major concern for some area residents.
In past years they have complained of roads closed for hours, about litter and damage to property left in ride's wake and other concerns.
To address such problems, the parish council has been debating a new ordinance to limit trail rides in the parish and Lemelle said she and her husband have been an important part of that debate.
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Holy Ghost Fest A Hit!
Posted by rsias on Friday, November 04, 2011 (13:00:00) (108 reads)
Holy Ghost Fest A Hit!
The 19th annual Holy Ghost Creole Festival Continues!
November 5, 2011
By Judy Bastien
The Daily World Newspaper
Helen Robinson is busy at work in the funnel cake booth at the
19th annual Holy Ghost Creole Festival.
The fall weather was perfect Saturday for the 19th annual three-day Holy Ghost Creole Festival, which began Friday evening with performances from local gospel groups.
Saturday was a full day of events that began at 9 a.m. and stretched to 10 p.m.
The church's annual fundraiser, held on the grounds of the former Holy Ghost Catholic School, has become a tradition in the community, attracting thousands who drop by throughout the weekend to listen to local music and sample food from a number of booths or to let the kids play on the fun jumps or other games.
There was a variety of Creole delicacies to choose from, but the hands-down favorite Saturday morning was the festival's legendary pork stew.
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Step-N-Strut To Take New Route Today
Posted by rsias on Monday, November 07, 2011 (13:50:42) (83 reads)
Step-N-Strut To Take New Route Today
November 5, 2011
by Judy Bastien
The Daily World Newspaper
Trail ride enthusiast walk their horses Saturday morning
as they prepare to ride in today's Step-n-Strut ride which
begins at 11 a.m. at Evangeline Downs and makes its way down La. 31.
Evangeline Downs Race Track and Casino is playing host to thousands of visitors, all in town for the 13th annual Step 'n' Strut Trail Ride.
Parked outside the building are campers and horse trailers, all belonging to trail ride enthusiasts.
Some estimate the number of participants at upwards of 10,000 people, who spend the weekend in Opelousas for the annual event.
The cowgirls and cowboys began arriving Friday and settled in for a day of relaxation and music all day Saturday, with the trail ride beginning at 11 a.m. today.
The ride, which has traditionally followed La. 31 out to the IFBS Lodge, will take a different route, this year.
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One of the largest Trailrides in the Zydeco Nation is back for another year in Opelousas, Louisiana, the Zydeco Capital of the World! This year's Step-N-Strut Trailride will take place at the Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino on November 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2011.
So brushem' down, saddle up, and ride out with those Step-N-Strut Riders and the hottest bands in the Zydeco and Southern Soul Nation for a weekend of good food, great music, fine horsemanship, and family fun!!! It's a new location, but the same good feeling!!!
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Albert "Red Rooster" Charles Transitions
Posted by rsias on Thursday, October 20, 2011 (09:19:17) (324 reads)
Albert "Red Rooster" Charles Transitions
Rodeo and Trailride Legend Rides On To Glory
October 20, 2011
by Rod Sias
www.ZydecoOnline.com
Albert Leon Charles
"Red Rooster"
(1924 - October 18, 2011) All True Cowboy & Trailrider!
Rest In Peace
photo courtesy of Acynthia Villery
Bill Picket Trailriders
Visitation: Saturday October 22, 2011 (9:00am - 2:00pm) Going Home Service: Saturday October 22, 2011 (2:00pm)
East Mount Olive Baptist Church, 1197 Corley Street, Beaumont, Texas
Interment Services: Bingham Cemetery in Hardin, Texas
Under the direction of Calvary Mortuary in Beaumont, Texas (409) 838-0159
Albert Leon Charles, a mainstay in the Black Cowboy, Rodeo, and Trailride tradition passed away on October 18, 2011 in Beaumont, Texas at the grand old age of 87.
Born in 1924, Mr. Albert received his first horse and began riding at the age of five. He became known as the "Red Rooster" from Hardin and over the years became a fixture in the Trailride, Zydeco, and Rodeo tradition.
He lived the life of a true cowboy, playing the harmonica, wearing his rustic cowboy hat and boots every where he went, brushing down, saddling up his favorite horse Zydeco Bill and "make em' do what da Rooster say!" In 2009, Albert "Red Rooster" Charles received the Bill Picket Trailriders Living Legend Award.
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85 Year Old Cowboy And His Dancing Horse, Zydeco Bill
Posted by rsias on Thursday, October 20, 2011 (07:40:00) (253 reads)
85 Year Old Cowboy And His Dancing Horse, Zydeco Bill
October 20, 2011
Originally Published: June 12, 2009
by Ashley Gaston
KFDM News
Albert "Red Rooster" Charles riding his favorite horse Zydeco Bill
An 85 year old Southeast Texas cowboy is being honored as a living legend at the Fifth Annual Bill Pickett Trail Riders Rodeo.
This cowboy is suiting up and getting ready.
He's fully equipped for the rodeo with his chaps, spurs and alligator skin boots.
"I used to ride goats, hogs, chicken, anything you name it and I did it," said Albert Leon Charles.
His name is Albert Leon Charles but he says most know him as "Red Rooster" from Hardin.
"If I ain't there, there ain't no rodeo," said Rooster.
Rooster began competing in rodeos when he was five years old and got his first horse. He knew then he'd ride until the day he dies. But at 85 years old, Rooster says he has a lot of competition left.
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Ask Sandra Fowler of Lafayette how many times she's seen Geno Delafose and French Rockin' Boogie and she needs a calculator. Fowler estimates that she and her husband, Ned, have gone to Delafose's dances at least three times a weekend, every weekend, for the past 10 years.
The Fowlers have even gone as far as Long Beach, California and Tampa, Florida to boogie with Geno.
"Geno's a genuine person," said Fowler. "He's awesome. We try to go see other people, but we always come back to him.
"He's consistent. He plays to the crowd and knows how to work the crowd. We don't like the bands who play to each other instead of the crowd.
"We traveled to Rome and Switzerland and we brought his CDs with us. We never leave him behind. We always have Geno with us."
The Fowlers were among several thousand fans who turned out for the 14th annual Geno Delafose Fan Appreciation Party Saturday at Lakeview Park and Beach in Eunice. Delafose treated his faithful followers to free music and food at his party, which rivals the attendance of some established festivals.
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37th Annual Black Cowboy Parade and Festival
Posted by rsias on Saturday, October 01, 2011 (13:27:28) (229 reads)
37th Annual Black Cowboy Parade and Festival
Ride 'em Black Cowboys! Annual parade & festival kicks off at 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, October 1, 2011 - TODAY!!!
October 1, 2011
From the Oakland Black Cowboys Association
37th Annual Black Cowboy Parade and Festival
When: Saturday, October 1, 2011-TODAY!!!
Parade begins at 10:00 a.m., immediately followed by festival until 4:00 p.m.
Where: Begins at Defermery Park, 18th and Adeline in West Oakland,
travels through downtown Oakland (14th Street) and returns to the park
Everyone loves a parade ... especially when there are cowboys and horses involved.
And there will be plenty of both when the Oakland Black Cowboys Association hosts its 37th Annual Black Cowboy Parade and Festival in West Oakland.
This year's parade will feature James Pickens Jr. as Celebrity Marshall. Pickens stars as Dr. Richard Webber, in the long running ABC Television drama "Grey's Anatomy" and produces the James Pickens Jr. Foundation Annual Charity Roping competition at the Tejon Ranch in Southern California. An avid horseman, Pickens created the foundation to support faith-based programming in Arts, Cultural, Humanities, Education, Health and Human Services.
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Zydeco Festival Boogies Into Town
Posted by rsias on Thursday, September 29, 2011 (13:26:59) (267 reads)
Zydeco Festival Boogies Into Town
Rescheduled Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival
Takes Place on Saturday, October 1, 2011
September 28, 2011
by Tina Marie Macias courtesy of the Daily World Newspaper
Dancers cut a rug at the 2009 Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival in Plaisance.
Live music will be plentiful this weekend in St. Landry Parish, with 10 live music events, including the 29th Annual Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival in Plaisance.
The zydeco festival originally was scheduled for the beginning of September, but was postponed because of Tropical Storm Lee.
Since then, many other events popped up and created an unusually large music-filled weekend, St. Landry Parish Tourist Commission Communications Director Herman Fuselier said.
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Chubby Carrier Featured In Opelousas Music and Market
Posted by rsias on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 (14:08:20) (228 reads)
Chubby Carrier Featured In Opelousas Music and Market
Grammy Winner Brings His Style of Zydeco Home
Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band
perform on Friday, September 30, 2011 at
6:00pm in Opelousas, Louisiana! www.ChubbyCarrier.com
(Opelousas,LA) — Another week of Music & Market gets underway Friday, September 30, 2011in Opelousas with the Grammy Award Winning Zydeco band, Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band. The event happens from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., with music at 6:00 p.m.
Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band
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Latin Jazz Musicians File Suit Against The Grammys
Posted by rsias on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 (13:34:19) (143 reads)
Latin Jazz Musicians File Suit Against The Grammys
Lack of Transparency in Eliminating 31 Categories Driving Law Suit
September 14, 2011
by Felix Contreras
courtesy of NPR
Chucho Valdes, the 2011 winner of the Grammy Award
for Best Latin Jazz Album, performs earlier this year at
a Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. That award was eliminated
in April; starting next year, Valdes and other Latin jazz
musicians will compete in the Best Jazz Album category. Photo Credits:Barbara Zanon/Getty Images
In April, the board of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), which oversees the Grammy Awards, announced that with next year's ceremony, the number of awards handed out would be cut from 109 to 78.
Categories like best R&B vocal performance by a male, by a female and by a group were merged into single award. Metal and hard rock were combined into one award. The number of Grammys that will go to Latin musicians when the awards are presented at the 54th-annual awards ceremony in February will be four, down from seven this year.
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Music and Market Returns Tonight
Posted by rsias on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 (13:20:09) (106 reads)
Music and Market Returns Tonight
Dog Hill Stompers Kick Off Opelousas Music and Market!
September 15, 2011
By William Johnson
Daily World Newspaper
The music of the Dog Hill Stompers will be
featured at tonight’s Opelousas Music and Market
free concert at Le Vieux Village beginning at 6 p.m.
The fall run of Opelousas' Music and Market free concert series begins tonight with the zydeco sounds of the Dog Hill Stompers and a spotlight on okra.
The concert series will continue each Friday through Oct. 28 with a wide variety of local musical artists as well as fresh homegrown vegetables for purchase direct from local farmers.
The market portion of the evening begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Farmers' Market Pavilion beside Le Vieux Village, with the music kicking off at 6 p.m. and continuing to 8:30 p.m.
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Labor Day weekend is a special weekend in the Zydeco Nation. It is the weekend that marks the revival of Zydeco Music and Creole culture 29 years ago. People and families all over the world return to the heart of the Zydeco Nation to celebrate family, Louisiana and Texas Creole culture, and of course, dance to hot Zydeco Music.
Continuing in this grand tradition, the Zydeco Boss, Keith Frank will host the 3rd Annual Keith Frank Labor Day Celebration on Saturday, September 3, 2011 at the Yambilee Building, in Opelousas, Louisiana. It's a Creole family affair with great Creole Food and Zydeco music by the hottest musicians in the Zydeco Nation! This is an event that you don't want to miss!
2011 Keith Frank's Labor Day Celebration Commercial
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival Schedule Released
Posted by rsias on Sunday, August 14, 2011 (13:00:00) (358 reads)
Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival Schedule Released
World's First and Oldest Zydeco Festival
Back With History and Zydeco This Labor Day Weekend!
August 17, 2011
by Rod Sias
www.ZydecoOnline.com
**** URGENT UPDATE 9/3/2011*******Due to weather conditions, the Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival in Plaisance Has Been POSTPONED To Oct 1,2011!! Stay Tuned for more details
The Original Southwest Louisiana
Zydeco Festival Will Take Place
On Saturday, September 3, 2011 in
Plaisance, Louisiana!
"All roads lead to Zydeco Park in Plaisance, Louisiana to celebrate the oldest Zydeco Festival in the state of Louisiana and the world!" The language may have changed and the people and organization may have changed, but the same spirit of the Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival, the world's first and oldest Zydeco Festival lives on and is back again to anchor another Labor Day weekend in Southwest Louisiana!
The Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival was organized in 1981 by the Treasures of Opelousas, a grassroots organization made up of local citizens from Opelousas and the surrounding rural communities who were concerned that Zydeco Music and the black Creole cultural experience was slowly dying out. In an effort to preserve this unique form of history and cultural expression, The Treasures of Opelousas held first The Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival in 1981 on the "SDF Farm", a 500 plus acre site that was originally purchased by the Southern Development Foundation in the 1970's under the leadership of Reverend A. J. McKnight (former Pastor of Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana) to combat poverty and economic underdevelopment in rural Louisiana by aiding small family farmers by developing cooperatives.
The Original Southwest Zydeco Festival became a flashpoint for the revival of Zydeco and Creole Music, History and Culture, introduced new generations to Creole Music and Culture, and help launch the careers of several generations of Zydeco and Creole Musicians The Treasures of Opelousas, organized, developed, and ran the festival for the first 14 years before it was taken over by the Southern Development Foundation (originally the group's 501c3 fiscal sponsor). The SDF Farm was renamed "Zydeco Park" and continues to remain an important landmark in the revival of Zydeco and Creole Music and Culture. "Zydeco Park"
The 29th Annual Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival will be held on Saturday, September 3, 2011(Labor Day Weekend)
Performers include: DiKKi Du & Zydeco Krewe, Step Rideau & Zydeco Outlaws, JJ Cailier & Zydeco Knockouts, Nathan Williams and Zydeco Cha Cha's, Geno Delafosse & French Rockin Boogie, J. Paul Jr. & Zydeco Nu Breedz, Grammy Award Winner - Chubby Carrier & Bayou Swamp Band, Lil Nate & the Zydeco Big Timers, Chris Ardoin & Nu Step.
Showtime: 10:30am-until. Admission: Adults-$15.00, Kids- $5.00(12yrs&under) RV’s are permitted for $10 a day. No ice chests, no glass containers, no BBQ pits, and no open flame burners are allowed. For more information: (337)232-7672 or (337)942-2392 or www.zydeco.org
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Annual Downtown Zydeco Breakfast Scheduled For September 3rd
Posted by rsias on Friday, August 12, 2011 (13:00:00) (240 reads)
Annual Downtown Zydeco Breakfast Scheduled For September 3rd
Lil' Wayne & Same Ol' 2 Step Will Wake Up
the Zydeco Capital of the World With Hot
Zydeco!
August 2, 2011
by Melanie Lee
Opelousas Department of Tourism
Same Ol 2 Step featuring Lil Wayne Singleton will
kick off the Labor Day Weekend at the
9th annual Zydeco Breakfast in Opelousas, Louisiana! www.SameOl2Step.com
(Opelousas, LA) - The City of Opelousas and Opelousas Main Street, Inc. team up to host the 9th annual Zydeco Breakfast on Saturday, September 3, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. under the oak trees surrounding the historical St. Landry Parish Courthouse. This year festival goers and music lovers will experience a blend of contemporary Zydeco and traditional Creole sounds as Same Ol' 2 Step featuring Lil Wayne Singleton are scheduled to perform.
Lil’ Wayne and Same Ol 2 Step, are a high-energy band which produces both old- and new-style Zydeco with a distinct way of blending the two. Leader of the band Wayne Singleton is a young but very knowledgeable musician who cut his teeth with Beau Jacques, Keith Frank and Zydeco Force.
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Boudin Exhibit Opens At Center
Posted by rsias on Thursday, August 11, 2011 (15:04:35) (196 reads)
Boudin Exhibit Opens At Center
courtesy of The Daily Advertiser
July 27, 2011
Out of state visitors to the St. Landry
Tourist Information Center can find out all
about boudin and where to find it at when the
SLTIC features Hot Boudin Today, a history of
the Creole and Cajun delicacy. Hot Boudin Today
will be featured at the center through Friday,
Sept. 9, 2011. Pictured are Herman Fuselier,
community director, and Ariel Gradnigo, travel counselor.
Boudin is to south Louisiana as clam pizza is to New Haven, Conn., as the green chile cheeseburger is to Santa Fe, N.M., as Frogmore stew is to Saint Helena, S.C. This Cajun Country sausage of pork, rice, and spice is a totem of culinary identity.
The Southern Foodways Alliance's latest documentary project, a traveling exhibit, profiles the ubiquitous and beloved Cajun fast food, boudin.
The exhibit opened at the St. Landry Parish Visitor Information Center in Opelousas on Wednesday and will continue until Sept. 9, 2011 according to a news release.
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It was three days and night full of history, down home blues, and that Southern Soul Sound! Memphis, Tennessee was the city, and historic downtown Beale Street was the final destination. The Jus` Blues Music Foundation held it's 2011 Jus` Blues Music Awards Week on August 3rd, 4th, & 5th, 2011 at the Historical Daisy Theater and the Westin Hotel. The past accomplishments of Blues and Southern Soul Legends, new artist, musicians, on air personalities, recording industry professionals, club owners, and cultural servants were honored and recognized by popular vote from the Blues and Southern Soul Nation!
Bobby "Blue" Bland was recognized at The Night Of The Living Legends Dinner for his lifetime achievements and the Bobby "Blue" Bland, Ambassador To The Blues Award was unveiled in his honor. Lamorris Williams and Stephanie Pickett won New Southern Soul Artists Of The Year, Kenne' Wayne won Best Southern Soul Artist Of The Year - Artist Performance for his song "Ride It Like A Cowboy and Ms. Jody won won Best Southern Soul Artist Of The Year - Artist Performance for her song "The Bop." Filmore Slim was awarded the Lowell Fulson Jus' Blues Awards and Carol Fran was awarded the Jus' Blues Music President's Award.
Congratulations To
Bobby "Blue" Bland! Bobby "Blue" Bland Ambassador To The Blues Award
Thank You for your Legacy!!!
The 2011 Jus` Blues Music Awards Week was organized and sponsored by
the Jus` Blues Music Foundation. Founded in 1990 by Charles Mitchell, the Jus` Blues Music Awards Week has recognized artist, musicians, and cultural servants who have been instrumental in the survival and development of Blues and Southern Soul music and culture. The Jus` Blues Music Foundation also sponsors the Atlanta Heritage Blues Festival and Jus` Blues Music “Blues in the Schools Program.
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Brian Jack Presents The Texas Creole Music Festival
Posted by rsias on Thursday, July 28, 2011 (14:34:39) (672 reads)
Brian Jack Presents The Texas Creole Music Festival
Next Level Zydeco Festival In It's 3rd Year!
July 27, 2011
by Rod Sias
The 3rd Annual Texas Creole Music Festival
will be held on August 6, 2011 at
Sallas Park/EMC Fairgrounds
(New Caney Fairgrounds) in New Caney, Texas.
Rain or Shine!!!
Zydeco Nation, on Saturday, August 6, 2011, a very special and unique event will take place in the small town of New Caney, Texas! The Zydeco Nation's own Brian Jack will host the 3rd Annual Texas Creole Music Festival!
What makes this particular festival special is not just the very strong and hot festival line-up, or that the Texas Creole Music Festival will provide a safe family oriented environment or that the festival will take place rain or shine under a covered pavilion, but that is the first major festival organized and promoted by a Zydeco Musician for the benefit of Zydeco Musicians!
The Texas Creole Music Festival represents the self determination, the positive growth and development in the Zydeco Nation. This is an event worth supporting, so Zydeco Nation, show your love by supporting the Texas Creole Music Festival!
“Here” is the common grave at Central Louisiana State Hospital, the mental health facility in Pineville. Warren Perrin, a Lafayette attorney and cultural advocate, has had a copy of this card since 1991, but many are just finding out about its existence since the renewed interest in Ardoin because of a new CD, Mama, I’ll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin, 1929-1934. Released by Tompkins Square Records of New York City, the CD marks the first time that Ardoin’s seminal recordings have been available on one source. SELECT THE "READ MORE" BUTTON BELOW
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Zydeco Musician Keith Franks Surprises Students
Posted by rsias on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 (14:00:00) (313 reads)
Zydeco Musician Keith Franks Surprises Students
The Zydeco Boss Gives A Creole History Experience To Students!
June 23, 2011
by Tina Marie Macias
The Daily World Newspaper
Renowned zydeco musician Keith Frank
had the children dancing as he entertained
Thursday at Grand Cotdeau Elementary.
The occasion was the 21st Century Summer
Enrichment Program being held at schools
throughout St. Landry Parish.
A lesson in Creole culture turned into a surprise private zydeco concert for 25 Grand Coteau Elementary School students Thursday morning.
"I asked them if any of them listened to zydeco and all of them threw their hands in the air," Zydeco Extravaganza promoter Dustin Cravins said.
The children were told that if they were well behaved, they would get a surprise. When Cravins asked who their favorite musicians were, some "were already naming Keith Frank," the surprise musician.
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Burning Death of Henry Smith
Posted by ZLady on Saturday, June 25, 2011 (16:30:00) (512 reads)
Burning Death of Henry Smith
In early 1893, a white reporter, writing in the New York Sun, offered a grisly account of the burning at the stake in Paris, Texas, of a black man accused of molesting a white girl. As press accounts like this make clear, to witness a lynching—or even just glimpse its aftermath—could be a searing experience for those who were the most likely victims of the lynch mob—young African-American males.
Newspaper Account: New York Sun, February 2, 1893. Reprinted in Gilbert Osofsky, 'The Burden of Race: A Documentary History of Negro-White Relations in America'
Posted on ZOL on June 25, 2011
Photo of Henry Smith being secured upon a scaffold, six feet square and ten feet
high. Shortly after Henry Smith was tortured for 55 minutes with hot iron being
stabbed into his body, including his eyes and hot irons were thrust down his throat.
While still alive, oil was poured over his body and he was burned alive. Frank Hudson, Photographer
African American Vernacular Photography/Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection
Paris, Texas, Feb. 1, 1893.—Henry Smith, the negro ravisher of 4-year-old Myrtle Vance, has expiated in part his awful crime by death at the stake. Ever since the perpetration of his awful crime this city and the entire surrounding country has been in a wild frenzy of excitement.
When the news came last night that he had been captured at Hope, Ark., that he had been identified by B. B. Sturgeon, James T. Hicks, and many other of the Paris searching party, the city was wild with joy over the apprehension of the brute.
Hundreds of people poured into the city from the adjoining country and the word passed from lip to lip that the punishment of the fiend should fit the crime—that death by fire was the penalty Smith should pay for the most atrocious murder and terrible outrage in Texas history. Curious and sympathizing alike, they came on train and wagons, on horse, and on foot to see if the frail mind of a man could think of a way to sufficiently punish the perpetrator of so terrible a crime.
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Remembering Henry Smith
Posted by ZLady on Saturday, June 25, 2011 (15:00:00) (376 reads)
Remembering Henry Smith
The Lynching of Henry Smith
Henry Smith
(b. 1876 - February 1, 1893) This image shows a photograph of Henry Smith at the Paris, Texas, train station
after his forcible return from Arkansas. Smith's gruesome murder
exemplifies the near-ritualistic nature of a typical lynching, the drama
unfolding over several carefully orchestrated acts. Pictured here is one
stage in the public spectacle: the delivery of the criminal to justice
while he is kept safely under control. Two white men in respectable
dress stand on either side of Smith, clutching his arms.
Smith alone looks directly into the camera, with apparent resignation to his fate. African American Vernacular Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection
Henry Smith (born 1876) was a former slave who was tortured and murdered at a public, heavily attended and promoted lynching on February 1, 1893 at the Paris Fairgrounds in Paris, Texas.
The lynching of Henry Smith
Henry Smith was accused of the brutal murder of three-year-old Myrtle Vance, the daughter of a policeman known for mistreating prisoners. Smith was among those who had previously been beaten by Myrtle's father, after he had been arrested for drunkenness.
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Remembering George Junius Stinney Jr.
Posted by ZLady on Thursday, June 16, 2011 (14:00:00) (915 reads)
Remembering George Junius Stinney Jr.
He was 14 yrs. 6mos. and 5 days old --- and the youngest person executed in the United States
June 16, 2011
by Jeffrey Collins
George Junius Stinney, Jr.,
(October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) An undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Archives
and History shows George Stinney Jr. the youngest person ever executed
in South Carolina. Sixty-five years later, a community activist is fighting to
clear Stinney's name, saying the young black boy couldn't have killed two
white girls. George Frierson, a 56-year-old school board member and
textile inspector, believes Stinney's confession was coerced, and that his
execution was just another injustice blacks suffered in Southern courtrooms
in the first half of the 1900s. (Photo courtesy/South Carolina Department of Archives and History)
In a South Carolina prison sixty-six years ago, guards walked a 14-year-old boy, bible tucked under his arm, to the electric chair. At 5' 1" and 95 pounds, the straps didn’t fit, and an electrode was too big for his leg.
The switch was pulled and the adult sized death mask fell from George Stinney’s face. Tears streamed from his eyes. Witnesses recoiled in horror as they watched the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century die.
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Delafose Earns Creole Heritage Honor
Posted by rsias on Friday, June 10, 2011 (14:35:20) (318 reads)
Delafose Earns Creole Heritage Honor
Richard J. Catalon Sr. Creole Heritage Award
Held on Sunday, June 12, 2011
June, 9, 2011
by Herman Fuselier
Geno Delafose’s fluency in French and traditional zydeco
has earned him the Richard J. Catalon Sr. Creole Heritage Award.
As a young boy, Geno Delafose figured everyone had a Creole grandmother who couldn't speak English. The lyrics to French songs he heard on the radio were as clear as the Motown hits.
But as he grew older, Delafose became puzzled. Adults twice his age couldn't converse in two languages like he could.
"I thought it was funny, but they were from the time when they didn't want kids to talk French," said Delafose, who turned 40 last February. "I'm part of the generation that came after that.
Creole Heritage Day Sunday, June 12, 2011
10:00 am to 5:00pm at Vermilionville
Admission is Free!!!
Joe Hall & the Louisiana Canecutters
Leroy Thomas & the Zydeco Roadrunners
Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie www.BayouVermilion.org
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2nd Annual Clifton Chenier Celebration!!!
Honoring the Life and Legacy of the King of Zydeco!!! Saturday, June, 25, 2011
At The Clifton Chenier Club in Loreauville, Louisiana www.CliftonChenierClub.com
The Zydeco Nation will honor and celebrate the life and legacy of Mr. Clifton Chenier at the 2nd Annual Clifton Chenier Celebration on Saturday, June 25, 2011 at the historic Clifton Chenier Club in Loreauville, Louisiana.
The celebration will begin with a round table discussion and live broadcast of the life and legacy of Clifton Chenier by musicians, family, and friends who played with and had close contact with the King of Zydeco!
Participants will also have the opportunity to visit the burial site of Mr. Clifton Chenier and place flowers at his burial site.
The musical celebration will will begin at 1:00pm and there will be plenty of food at this great event honoring the King of Zydeco, Mr. Clifton Chenier!!!
Stay connected to this story, I will be updating this story with actual video clips from the event as they occur!
Andre Thierry & Corey Ledet
"Let's Do The Zydeco"
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Zydeco Music is a unique form of musical expression that originated in rural southwest Louisiana. Locally known as "la la" music, Zydeco music was formed and forged in a time best forgotten--a time when African-Americans had to struggle in the fields from sunup to sundown as sharecroppers so that their children might reap a better life.
It was these backbreaking hard times that help to define one of the most vibrant and successful musical traditions in the world. The phrase "Zydeco sont pas sale'" means "The snapbeans are not Salty" in Creole French, and the music draws upon French, Creole, West African, Cajun, Caribbean, and R & B musical traditions. Zydeco Music is characterized by the use of the accordion, spoons, scrubboard, fiddle and triangle.
--ZydecoOnline.com--
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