Zydeco Lessons
This weekend offers several fun other dance venues for your happy feet!
Friday night 1/27 Viscount Ballroom at 724 E Burnside offers the last of this month's zydeco classes with Roland and Janine. Intermediate drop in class 7-8 p.m. then stay for CD dancing until 10:30. Only $5! for more info 503) 226-3262.
Is anyone else aware that Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys are coming to Duff's Garage on Sunday, Jan. 29? Yes they are!!! Dick
The show starts at 8:00pm Sunday 1/29/12 at Duff's Garage, Portland, Doors open at 7 p.m.
$10 cover 21+
Duff's Garage 1635 SE 7th Ave PDX 503-234-2337 www.duffsgarage.com
Please join us at Duff's Garage - 2011 Winner Cascade Blues Association MUDDY AWARD 'BEST BLUES VENUE!
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The 2nd Annual Zydeco Music Awards, hosted by Eyewitness News Anchor Darla Montgomery, will be held on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at the Heymann Performing Arts Center in Lafayette, Louisiana. (continued)
Saturday, Feb. 18: Mysti Krewe of Nimbus Mardi Gras Ball at Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E. Burnside. Doors open at 7 PM. Tickets-$25, available at www.portlandmardigras.com , or reserved by email at portlandmardigras@gmail.com . This will be a "sold out" event, so get your tickets in advance! Bands will include TooLoose Cajun Band, Atomic Gumbo, & Transcendental Brass Band. This year's costume theme is "They All Ask'd for You," a tune by The Meters, which will surely bring out the zoo animals & sea creatures! Check it out on the internet for inspiration.
Can't Sit Down
C.J. Chenier
[World Village]
The festival begins Wednesday, July 4th. & runs through Sunday, July 8th. this year. The signature blues acts have yet to be announced. However, bands playing on the zydeco stage Friday, Saturday & Sunday will include Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie, Corey Ledet Zydeco Band (he promises he will be there), and the Creole Roots Band made up of Dexter Ardoin, Jeffrey Broussard & Ed Poullard (plus Geno) which will play each set with a different lead.
We are negotiating with another premier zydeco band from Louisiana, plus Cajun Country Revival w/ Joel Savoy, Jesse Lege & others, TooLoose Cajun Band & Caleb Klauder Band. It is likely Cajun & zydeco music will spill over into Thursday, July 5th., so you will want to come for the entire festival. It will be our 25th. Anniversary, so we will pull out all the stops!
The zydeco stage is where the action is!!! There will be a dance floor. We are negotiating with a nearby hotel to secure a discount rate. Again this year, we will offer a 5-day pass, plus the discount hotel rate for a tax deductible contribution of $120 to the Oregon Food Bank. More info. later. Check out the web site at www.waterfrontbluesfest.com
Dick Brainard
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