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This is a selective listing of the Web sites I have found most informative or entertaining.
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Cajun/Zydeco Band Home Pages (maintained by Jeremy Rice) There are many musicians playing Cajun & zydeco music. Jeremy Rice has been providing an alphabetized list of CZ band websites since the mid-90s at cajunzydeco.net. Follow the 'bands' link on the left sidebar of his website to find this information. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Regional Information & Calendars
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General Lousiana Music and Culture Information
| Cajun/Zydeco Music & Dance - Perhaps the first Cajun and zydeco sites on the web, this page, maintained by Jeremy Rice, includes links to extensive C/Z information. There is also a great article here, found by going to the "Louisiana info" link, on planning a C/z trip to Southwest Louisiana. I agree with almost all of Jeremy's suggestions. |
| Become a Friend of Louisiana Folk Roots: Support the traditions that support Louisiana. . Website: www.lafolkroots.org. |
| Louisiana Music Commission The LMC's mission is to promote and develop Louisiana's popular, commercial music and related industries to produce the highest possible economic and cultural benefit for the People of Louisiana. Their website has late-breaking news, and a terrific, annotated links page.t |
| Zydeco Cajun Prairie Scenic Byways. This website about the music, culture and history of the Louisiana Prairie area (which include Eunice, Mamou, Opelousas, Ville Platte, Crowley & Church Point). There are sections devoted to art & artisans, food, history & culture, nature & wildlife, music and festivals, plus a list of clubs and up-to-date calender for all the local events happening in each town (& there is always something going on in SW Louisiana). Additional sidebars include features on "byways", "folkways" and "real ways of life" with very informative pop-up windows. |
| Gary Hayman's ZydE-Magic Cajun/Zydeco Music and Dance Web site is now an archive of 13 years of articles about most everything Cajun/zydeco. Gary received contributions from C/z fans from all over the world that made for some interesting and amusing reading. |
| Louisiana Radio on the Internet |
| Zyde.com - "The Internet Magazine for Louisiana Music", covers Cajun, Jazz, Blues, Zydeco, Rock and more. Editor: Gary Dauphin zydecom@aol.com from Luling LA |
| Mardi Gras. The best places to start looking for Southwest Louisiana info are at Arn Burkoff's Mardi Gras page and at LSUE's Mardi Gras in rural Acadiana page. |
| Links to various Louisiana town & parish websites can be found
at www.mossbluffonline.com |
Calendars and Regional Information
| Cajun/Zydeco Music & Dance - One of the first Cajun and zydeco sites on the web, this page, maintained by Jeremy Rice, includes links to extensive C/Z information. There is also a great article here, found by going to the "Louisiana info" link, on planning a C/z trip to Southwest Louisiana. I agree with almost all of Jeremy's suggestions |
| The Patsy Report Updated several times a week by Patsy Hebert (and maintained on the web by Gary Hayman), this is a posting of an email calendar focused on mostly zydeco dance events in Southwest Lousiana. |
| Patsy's Directions to Acadiana Clubs and CZ Places of Interest |
| Zydeco Cajun Prairie Scenic Byways. This new website about the music, culture and history of the Louisiana Prairie area (which include Eunice, Mamou, Opelousas, Ville Platte, Crowley & Church Point). There are sections devoted to art & artisans, food, history & culture, nature & wildlife, music and festivals, plus a list of clubs and up-to-date calender for all the local events happening in each town (& there is always something going on in SW Louisiana). Additional sidebars include features on "byways", "folkways" and "real ways of life" with very informative pop-up windows. |
| Zydeco Clubs in the Lafayette Area - directions to and phone numbers for the main clubs. |
| Cajun and Zydeco Dance Schedule for Baton Rouge, Louisiana Maintained by Clarence Moritz, Jr. clarence@cajunradio.org |
| Mardi Gras. The best place to start looking for Mardi Gras information in Southwest Louisiana info is at Arn's Mardi Gras page |
| The Festival International de Louisianne great Spring festival in Lafayette, LA. |
| New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Page - Info about Jazz Fest, including performers, schedules, food, crafts, maps, lots more. |
| Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival in Plaisance, LA. I went to the 1996 festival and it was incredible. Check out their official web site. The Festival now has an official research archives established at the Opelousas Museum & Interpretive Center which contains over 14 years of Creole/Zydeco music performances, recorded live on video tape and in still photographs. Located at 329 North Main Street in Opelousas, hours of operation are 9 am - 5pm Monday - Friday. |
| Festivals Acadiens..my FAVORITE of them all...in Lafayette, LA usually the 3rd weekend in September. Great music and cultural events during the day, great music in the clubs at night. |
| Crawfish Festival Breaux Bridge, LA, 1st weekend in May. |
| Mid-City Lanes-Rock N Bowl - Home Page and Schedule...THE place to dance to zydeco (and sometimes Cajun) when you're in New Orleans. Zydeco night is Thursday with zydeco occasionally booked Wednesdays and weekends too . | ||||||||||||||
| Offbeat - New Orleans and Louisiana Music & Entertainment Magazine-includes New Orleans clubs, events and Louisiana bands touring schedules | ||||||||||||||
| House of Blues, New Orleans, French Quarter. Occasional Cajun and zydeco nights. | ||||||||||||||
| The Lafayette Chamber of Commerce - For a die-hard Cajun & Zydeco fan, Lafayette, Louisiana is Mecca. This Web page includes tourist information, event calendars, including a Festival information page, with dates & contact phone numbers, news releases and lots of other helpful and interesting information about the Mecca of Acadiana. | ||||||||||||||
| The Official City of Eunice Louisiana Website is at http://www.eunice-la.com. The website includes information on local festivals, Cajun culture, recipes and local dining & lodging, among other things. | ||||||||||||||
| NOLA Live Run by The Times-Picayune, this page includes links to Sounds, Restaurants, Weather, Vampire Sightings .. ie everything you want to know about New Orleans. | ||||||||||||||
| Some Other Favorite Spots in Lafayette, LA & Vicinity:
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| Los Angeles. Check out the LA LA Line sponsored by the Traditional Music & Dance Conservancy or call (818) 793-4333. Also see Zydeco Brad's page on Southern California events. |
| San Diego, CA: Bon Temps Social Club or call the hotline, 614 - 496-6655. Also, Greg Benusa has a an informative website focused on zydeco dancing in the San Diego and LA area at www.zydecoach.com. He's got an interesting newsletter included on the website. |
| San Francisco Bay Area: Ellen Papper's Bay Area Cajun Zydeco Dance Calendar lists all the SF Bay dance events and is updated several times a week. Dance instructor Dana Desimone has a good local Z/c dance website that includes the Eagles Hall (Alameda) schedule and articles about recent shows, C/z dance styles and Dana's philosophy of dancing. Dana is a great writer - worth checking out. Louisiana Sue, a West Coast promoter of mostly zydeco bands, now has her own website which showcases her events and her organization, mostly in the SF Bay Area and Sacramento. |
| California Festival Home Pages: Simi Valley Cajun Creole Music Festival (May), Long Beach Bayou Festival (June), Gator By The Bay - San Diego Cajun Zydeco Music Festival (October), Isleton Crawdad Festival (June) (also see Dana Desimone & Louisiana Sue's pages.) |
| Baltimore/Washington/Chicago/New York/New England and links to extensive C/Z information across the US. Or visit Gary Hayman's ZydE-Magic Cajun/Zydeco Music and Dance Web site which includes extensive national and internation C/Z links and the ZydeE-zine of C/Z articles. Hotline for DC area schedule information (301) 345-3230 (Gary Hayman). For FREE e-mail subscription send a note to ghayman@erols.com. |
| Philadelphia - call the hotline - 215-487-0187 (Donna) or 215-576-0839 or check out the dance schedule on the Web. |
| Chicago has The Chicago Cajun Connection maintained by Lynne & Charlie Terr on line, plus hotlines 708-793-2321, 312-643-5771 and a second site maintained by Monica Vachlon at http://users.erols.com/ghayman/chicagoland.htm. |
| Kansas City has about 300-400 zydeco fans. You can E-mail Jeff Cooper to find out what's going on at pmew76a@prodigy.com or check out his Web page. |
| Minneapolis/St. Paul now has the Louisiana Music in the Upper Midwest Schedule page. |
| St. Louis Concert Web The following clubs book Cajun-Zydeco music. You can search them by name for the latest listings: Broussard's Rajin Cajun, The Broadway Oyster Bar, Mike & Min's, Ninth & Russell. |
| New York - Laura Selikman puts on two dances a month. Email zydecolaura@hotmail.com to get on her email list of events Theresa A. Spear posts a calendar of events for New York and New England. and Arn Burkoff has a NE USA website with events in Philadelphi, New York and New Jersey. And a list of New York clubs and other helpful info is available at the Cajun Connection. |
| The Zydeco Road includes reviews and listings of events, focusing on Long Island and NYC. |
| Northeast Cajun News, published by Nancy Weston 203-744-6823 or Email imcajuntwo@aol.com |
| Portland, OR - Cascade Zydeco Association - call their hotline for info - 503-452-3719 or visit them on the web at http://www.cascade-zydeco.com/ |
| Seattle, WA Cajun/Zydeco Community Dance Calendar Seattle has a new, comprehensive, Web-based calendar for all local Cajun and Zydeco dance events. It's the most complete local calendar available because each of the musicians, promoters, teachers, etc. post their own individual information directly onto the calendar themselves. It is maintained as a cooperative venture between the local dance instructors, local presenters, and all of the local Cajun bands. Other Seattle sites are: Northwest Zydeco Music and Dance Association, Living Traditions and Zydeco! Northwest Lapignappe, Inc and the BIGFOOT Cajun and Zydeco Dancers Web site. Lykes To Dance teaches Zydeco, Cajun, Swing, Waltz and Blues with focus on Zydeco. |
| Seattle Zydeco Events Network (Seattle ZEN) is a concise
compilation of Zydeco events in and around Seattle. Modeled on Patsy
Hebert's "Patsy Report" Seattle ZEN will strive to provide
regular, accurate, and easily accessible information in an effort to
continually expand and energize Seattle's Zydeco community. Updates will be
sent approximately every other week, with special hot mailings on an
as-needed basis. To ensure you are on the Seattle ZEN list, simply e-mail
Sean Donovan at odonovan@earthlink.net
and note that you wish to SUBSCRIBE |
| Atlanta. Call the Atlanta Cajun Dance Association (ACDA) hotline - 404-451-6611. Or check out their web site . |
| Birmingham. Call the Association of Cajun Music Enthusiasts (ACME) (David Doggett - 209-951-3463). Birmingham is on an established circuit of southwest Louisiana bands who normally play there on Thursdays before heading to Atlanta for the weekend. |
| Charlotte. Carolina GATOR GUMBO is a five piece traditional Cajun band based out of Charlotte. You can check out their Web page at http://www.answer-man.com/gumbo.html or e-mail John Bishop at jbishop@perigee.net for information about that area. |
| Durham, N.C. Kathy and Mike Molesky helped form the new Triangle Area Cajun/Zydeco Association (TRACZA) which sponsor Cajun and Zydeco dances, and Cajun and Zydeco dance lessons. Information is available at: [(919) 872-8584 or kmolesky@ntwrks.com |
| South Florida. Steve Apple runs a South Florida Web page as well as hosts the Crescent City Music Show featuring Louisiana music. He can be reached at sapple@gate.net. Also checkout |
| Austin, Texas - A complete listing of all music and dance events in Austin. |
| Houston, Texas: The Houston Zydeco News Includes a list of clubs and a list of events and festivals. |
| Houston, Texas. Blue and Gold Creole Zydeco Dance Society has a website at http://www.zydecoevents.com/events.html. Also weekly Updates of Houston Area Zydeco events by email. To subscribe, email zydecojoe@syracusenet.net . |
| The Original Zydeco Jamm Festival, held in March @ the Crosby Fairgrounds in Crosby, Texas (outside Houston) |
| Arizona. La Gazette Toutes Choses is an email newsletter of events (mostly around Tucson) you can receive by emailing JP |
West:
| Colorado: Check out the Colorado Cajun Dance Band's home page and tour schedule. |
| Colorado: The Colorado Friends of Cajun and Zydeco Music Association was organized to help plan and promote C/z events. Call 303-541-9260 or email Hugh Robertson at hughman@ix.netcom.com for more information. This site contains a calendar of events. |
Europe:
| Go to Gary Hayman's ZydE-Magic Cajun/Zydeco Music and Dance Web site for international events. |
