Jazz & Heritage Concert Series: The Savoy Doucet Cajun Band
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2022
- Join us on Friday, June 10, 2022 at 8:00pm for The Savoy Doucet Cajun Band at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart Street) to kick off the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival 2022!
About the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival:
The Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival presented by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation on June 11 & 12, 2022 in Louis Armstrong Park celebrates the rich traditions of southwest Louisiana. The festival is free and open to the public and features large local food and arts markets. Learn more at cajunzydecofest.com
About The Savoy Doucet Cajun Band:
The Savoy Doucet Cajun Band play honed down, hard core Cajun music laced with an earthy sensuality. Though the old tunes have been revived and returned to a new life intensity in their hands, the Savoy Doucet Cajun band doesn't play from a studied angle. The three musicians in the band, Marc and Ann Savoy and Michael Doucet, each hold their own as strong individual group members, making up a tight, intense sound.
Savoy-Doucet has been performing and recording together since 1977, recording five CDs on the Arhoolie label. They have traveled all over the world, appearing in many prestigious venues, such as the Newport Folk Festival, the Berlin Jazz Festival, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes at the Smithsonian Institution, the National Geographic Concert Series, even the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England, to name a few. The nation has rewarded the trio for their authenticity and expertise by taking them on numerous state department tours, featuring them in national festivals, awarding Marc Savoy the highest honor in the country for traditional artists, the honorable National Heritage Fellowship Award. Michael Doucet was awarded a Grammy award and Ann was awarded the Botkin Book Award for her definitive book on the history of Cajun music, and she recently appeared as a musician in the film "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood."
Although the Savoy Doucet Cajun Band insists upon maintaining a more acoustic approach to Cajun music the band can hold its own amongst Cajun music lovers everywhere. In fact, the band loves seeing how much power and sound they can get out of just three instruments.
Each member of the band can play numerous instruments and sometimes trade instruments during stage performances. Sometimes the group demonstrates the way Cajun music has evolved by demonstrating the early double fiddle - triangle sound or the solo accordion - fiddle sound. Early French ballads are added to the program to show other historic elements prevalent in early southwest Louisiana. Between the songs the Cajun French poetry of the songs is often briefly translated by Ann so that the feeling can be better understood. Their repertoire is chosen carefully, popular dancehall tunes interspersed with soulful ballads, fiddle or vocal duets, or blues. The songs show the spectrum of Cajun life from sorrow and lost love to nonsense and the joy of dance.
The Savoy Doucet Cajun Band brings the raw energy of the dancehalls of southwest Louisiana to the stage, peppered with humorous and informative anecdotes about life on the Louisiana prairies.
More info at www.jazzandheritage.org
Bluegrass is my favorite music but when i listen to Cajun, like bluegrass, i can't keep my hands and feet still. I enjoyed your music immensely. Thank you, kt
Love cajun music. Decades ago i saw doug Kershaw on tv and the rest is history. No lasers, dancers, fireworks, performers attitudes, just music for music's sake.
I lived through the glorious times... Before the hurricane... In the 1980s and 90s when Cajun music rules and everybody danced in Louisiana New Orleans
I was around 11 or 12 when I first heard True Cajun music , a flick came out in early 80s called Southern Comfort.. Mr Savoy was in the movie playing his accordion during the village scene. That music touches the soul . Bravo an Gött Segne dich long live the cajun culture.
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I'm glad Doucet doesn't play fiddle with his hip!...Wonderful to see and hear these folks!!!
I love his moves!!!
This gal and the two gents are traditional old timers. Their instruments are authentic and have been playedbregulRLY. BEAUTIFUL
Wonderful video. Very homely music an intimate session. Great stories, history and superb musicianship. Lovely people too. It hit the spot with me and I'm 66.
Much respect to this music
you folks ar great love the lady playin the gutair excellant
Respect les anciens 😍😘
This is a fantastic registration from three living legends, thank you so much for sharing.
It's good that they are still playing the traditional style and there are also still youngsters who are doing that.
Agreed.
I just love Joel with his ready smile as the music touches his soul.
My boy!
Have you heard Caleb playing with them? Oh wonderful..
wonderful. Funny thing is..the minute this music hits the brain the body has to swing!! Move!!
the best, hell yes
The rooster story was great... merci beaucoup
Merci pour Voutre videos !
Goodbye Brown Eyes @ 1:00:14 was so beautifully sung and played! Anne's vocals are wonderful as ever!
Michael should’ve waited a little bit before starting the next song to let the audience thank with heartfelt applause.
great to see
It's also great to listen to ;-)
WOW!! FANTASTIC!! YaHoo from TX
Wonderful music. And I like the stage talk! The Boudreaux joke is one I'll remember - I've already passed it on to a few friends.
im coming from oklahoma to the NOLA jazz fest this year. im hoping i can find someone to sit beside and learn how to play fiddle like this. ill be camping the whole week
Kei mooi!
I love the music! I don't speak cajun. I would love to understand!
I'm going to look up the lyrics of Diggy-diggy-lo in English, since they're too racy to explain to the audience. My mother, in high school in the 1930s, was instructed in her English classes exactly which passages of Romeo and Juliet the students were NOT supposed to read. (Brilliant pedagogy. Of course everyone read those passages with great attention.)
votre musique est belle cousins d'Amerique ne perdez pas votre langue
Très belle musique !
howb b eautifly they plat and e know
I'm sold! If u don't tap ur foot to this........ur already dead!
Yak yakyak
What’s with all the talking?? I’m out of here….looking for zydeco playin less talkin more singin
Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
I'm with yall RRA!! We're about to have a gumbo eating contest and needed a little zydeco to make the eatin' ahh-yee fun.
Yours was the only. Negative comment.grow up