Fri 9/17 @ 8PM
For many years, Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience were regulars at the Cain Park Arts Fest, where he’d been the headliner for years. But with no festival last year and things rearranged this year, locals didn’t get their dose of the lively Louisiana zydeco artist. The good news is that Cain Park is bringing him in for a late-season show in its Evans Amphitheater
Like most zydeco musicians, he grew up in the Louisiana hinterlands in a family of musicians, where he was surrounded by this distinctive local sound. He was playing its signature accordion and singing in regional clubs while still in his teens, but unlike many of his peers, he didn’t remain there. As one of a younger generation of zydeco artists (although he’s now 56), he took his music on the road, becoming part of a band of players who introduced zydeco to an international audience and seeded local zydeco bands in towns across America. He is a hero on his home turf as well: in 2019 he played his 34thconsecutive New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. (Both 2020 and 2021 festivals were cancelled, the latter after being pushed from the usual April/May slot to the fall, as Louisiana is currently a COVID hotbed).
Come on out and do some two-stepping at Cain Park. The concert is free!
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