Ellis & @Delfeayo Marsalis bring Southern charm, jazz traditions to#MICHIGAN concert on Friday http://nola.tw/TT
B.J. Crosby, New Orleans-born #NOLA Broadway and #jazz vocalist, has passed away @ 62 http://nola.tw/TP
French Quarter Fest @FQFestNOLA to feature more music, adult snowballs#FQF #NOLA http://nola.tw/TN
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| 1947 - Buckwheat Zydeco (Stanley Dural Jr.) was born on this day. He's an accordionist and zydeco musician, and a native of Lafayette, Louisiana. By the late 1950s he was backing Joe Tex, Clarence Gatemouth Brown and many others. He is one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music group is formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Son Partis Band, but often they perform as merely Buckwheat Zydeco. The band has appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman, CNN, The Today Show, MTV, NBC News, CBS Morning News, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition. |
