Everybody’s favorite Afro-pop Indie band from Lafayette, GIVERS, continue to get noticed on the national scene. In addition to having their song, Ceiling of Plankton, featured on the Oxford American’s Editors’ Picks page, the band’s song, Saw you First, has been featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered. Now, just as they get ready to kick off their Northeast/Southeast/Texas/Louisiana Spring tour, GIVERS has been invited to perform for a Daytrotter session on February 9th! It’s hard to keep track of it all, but in a futile attempt, here are some useful links for all you crazy GIVERS fans:
Daytrotter site (this link will become more useful after February 9th, but they have a fantastic collection of recordings that you can enjoy at any time!)
Photo courtesy of Piotr Redlinski, The New York Times
Cedric Watson et Bijou Créole’s recent performance at Globalfest in Manhattan has not gone unnoticed. Johnn Pareles at The New York Times says Cedric “reconfigures new and old Cajun music with guts and smarts” and NPR decided to feature Cedric and the band as stand out artists on All Songs Considered. Cedric’s rigorous touring schedule and his second GRAMMY nomination are paying off in the form of exposure and media coverage. We expect this trend to continue as his album is now officially nationally released and airplay and promotions have ramped up.
Yes, the Savoys are all over the Cajun and Zydeco GRAMMYs – Wilson and the Pine Leaf Boys, Ann and the Magnolia Sisters, and Joel, who produced the Magnolia Sisters’ and Cedric Watson and Bijou Créole’s GRAMMY nominated albums. Steve Hochman recounts the scene at the Savoy’s latest boucherie and discusses the family’s internal competition in his Spinner writeup, Will the Savoy Family Hog the Cajun/Zydeco GRAMMY?
Check out the article, or at least watch this video of the boucherie by Gloria Maso:
Music Voyager host Jacob Edgar will profile five GRAMMY® Nominated Artists
The Music Voyager TV series gives viewers a backstage pass to the most popular and fascinating music from around the world.
DECEMBER 28, 2009 – Music Voyager, a new public television TV series that gives viewers a backstage pass to the most popular and fascinating music from around the world, announced that the second artist profiled in its ROAD TO A GRAMMY® special is Cedric Watson, the breakout Créole Cowboy out of Lafayette. Tomorrow night (December 29), Music Voyager will profile and film Cedric along with his band, Bijou Créole, at a live performance at Lafayette’s Blue Moon Saloon.
For the second year in a row, a Cedric Watson album on Valcour Records has been nominated for the Cajun and Zydeco category of the GRAMMYs.
L’ésprit Créole, now shipping from our CD Store, and to be officially released worldwide in the coming weeks, garnered enough votes to rise to the upper eschelon of Louisiana music.
Congratulations to Cedric, the band, and all the nominees!
Bonsoir Catin’s Kristi Guillory is taking Cajun and Creole music reviews virtual. With her content-rich blog, the Cajun and Creole Music Spectator, featuring musician and artist reviews, editorials, intriguing accounts of Acadian history, and even a “Spectator Store,” Kristi is providing Louisiana music-lovers worldwide with a central resource for staying up on the culture.
Learn about Kristi and visit the Spectator in our November Artist of the Month feature!
Kristi Guillory and the Cajun and Creole Music Spectator
As GIVERS prepare to tour with the Dirty Projectors, we’re giving you a full listen to the tracks on their new EP (minus the remix track). They are taking the east coast by storm and we’re thrilled to have them on Valcour for their maiden project!
A new band has made its way into the Valcour mix. They aren’t Cajun, they aren’t zydeco, they aren’t old time. GIVERS are are pure fun. At times poppy, at times psychadelic, their music incites and demands roars of applause from the packed bars and nightclubs they play around Louisiana.
GIVERS consists of several musicians from various improvisational groups all centered in southwestern Louisiana who have combined to form one cohesive music making body, creating what they refer to as afro-beat, dancy pants, indie pop love music. Continue reading ‘GIVERS EP’
We’re mixing it up a bit this month by featuring a different kind of artist—a fashion designer.
Paula LaFargue is a former Louisiana Ex-Pat who has returned home to be with family and to strike out on her own with an elegant and playful line of handmade dresses, skirts, and blouses. See what you think of her work in our September Artist of the Month feature!
To make a contribution to any traditional folk genre, a writer must know its traditional book of tunes, play to its audiences, and speak its language. Cedric Watson in this 2nd album as leader forges ahead with original Creole music influenced by the French Creole diaspora and West Africa. Creole’s roots are revealed in Cedric’s journey through the influences of kompa, merengue, and the flexible and sometimes humorous approach Black Creoles take interpreting duple and triple meters.
Everybody’s favorite Afro-pop Indie band from Lafayette, GIVERS, continue to get noticed on the national scene. In addition to having their song, Ceiling of Plankton, featured on the Oxford American’s Editors’ Picks page, the band’s song, Saw you First, has been featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered. Now, just as they get ready to kick off their Northeast/Southeast/Texas/Louisiana Spring tour, GIVERS has been invited to perform for a Daytrotter session on February 9th! It’s hard to keep track of it all, but in a futile attempt, here are some useful links for all you crazy GIVERS fans:
