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Zydeco Dance Party: Jefferson Broussard and the Creole Cowboys

Zydeco Dance Party: Jefferson Broussard and the Creole Cowboys

There are few sound sounds on the planet more danceable that zydeco music. Squeezebox ace, fiddler and singer Jeffery Broussard leads The Creole Cowboys, one of the finest zydeco groups in the world.

The roots of the Creole Cowboys' music are in the traditional Creole songs that Jeffery Broussard heard as a boy playing with his father, the late Delton Broussard, and Delton's band, the Lawtell Playboys. Many of those songs originate from much earlier times when Creoles like Amédé Ardoin played the music at house dances where the furniture would be moved outside and the music would give neighbors, weary from long hours in the fields, the energy to dance until early morning.

Born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1967 the youngest of 11 children, Jeffery grew up on a sharecropper farm. Like many Zydeco musicians, his musical career started very early; when he was eight-years-old he was playing drums with the Lawtell Playboys. He eventually moved on to accordion and fiddle. Jeffery formed the Creole Cowboys in 2006, drawing inspiration from his family music, and the rollicking sounds of late legends, like Boozoo Chavis. The Creole Cowboys rock it hard and give dancers an old fashioned Zydeco workout.

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Event Details

Friday, October 2, 2015, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Prices:
$20, $17 mbr DOOR: $23, $20 mbr
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