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Zydeco Spice. The Zydeco Spice is a team in the Women's Football Alliance. The team began playing in the 2010 season as the Acadiana Zydeco and returned for the 2021 season under a new name. Based in the Acadiana region (and more specifically the Lafayette metropolitan area) of Louisiana, the Zydeco plays its home games at Lafayette Christian ...
Jeffery Broussard. Jeffery Broussard (born March 10, 1967) is an American zydeco musician. Broussard was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, to parents Ethel and Delton Broussard. He had five brothers and sisters, and he was the youngest child. During Jeffery's childhood, the family lived in Frilot Cove, near Opelousas, Louisiana, and his father ...
Stanley Dural Jr. (November 14, 1947 – September 24, 2016), [1] [2] better known by his stage name Buckwheat Zydeco, was an American accordionist and zydeco musician. He was one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music group was formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Sont Partis Band [3] ("Ils Sont Partis" being ...
1954–1987. Labels. Elko, Specialty, Arhoolie, Crazy Cajun, Chess, Alligator. Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), [1] [2] was an American musician known as a pioneer of zydeco, a style of music which arose from Creole music, with R&B, blues, and Cajun influences. He sang and played the accordion and won a Grammy Award in 1983.
A Festival shuttle runs from the UL Lafayette Health Science Campus Parking Garages at 601 W. St. Mary Blvd. and 411 St. Landry St. to downtown Lafayette. Service every 15 minutes with a $15 per ...
Dwayne Dopsie was born March 3, 1979, in Lafayette, Louisiana. [1] He is the youngest of accordionist Rockin' Dopsie 's eight children, and picked up music in the household from an early age. He began playing washboard at age six and accordion at seven, and performed with his father on stage at Mardi Gras and on television for a Super Bowl ...
Atlantic. Alton Jay Rubin (February 10, 1932 – August 26, 1993), [1] who performed as Rockin' Dopsie (sometimes Rockin' Dupsee ), was an American zydeco singer and accordion player who had success first in Europe and later in the United States. [2] He played accordion on "That Was Your Mother" on Paul Simon 's album Graceland (1986).
New Orleans Cajun-Zydeco Fest, 2019. Zydeco ( / ˈzaɪdɪˌkoʊ, - diː -/ ZY-dih-koh, -dee-; French: Zarico) is a music genre that was created in rural Southwest Louisiana by Afro-Americans of Creole heritage. It blends blues and rhythm and blues with music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles such as la la and juré, using the French ...