Zydeco Workshop Saturday - July 7th next to Portland's Blues & Zydeco Festival
Saturday morning before the Blues festival there will be a free Zydeco dance workshop covering Intermediate moves and advanced Louisiana style slides. These moves are often seen at the bars and festivals in Louisiana & Texas.
Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Location: Hotel Fifty (across the street from the festival) 50 Southwest Morrison Street Columbia Conference Room, 2nd Floor
Cost: Free Questions: call 619-857-8409
Video Practice Link: If you would like to practice the basics of the slides before class please click on the following link.. http://youtu.be/NtTk0utd1vk
What I truley love about Zydeco is the spirit & attitude it brings out. Here is a clip from the Bill Picket Trial Ride in Beaumont Texas... I have had many Zydeco adventures over the years but I have not done a trial ride.."yet"..
Oh Mamacita - Zydeco 2-Step with a Mexican music style to it which is great. He sings a bit of the tune Spanish and then English which works really well.
Lessons from the Master Boozoo Chavis - This is a great vocal track of Boozoo-isums. The late great Boozoo Chavis has a unique perspective which he often shared I often wish there was a little book of these so leave it up to Keith Frank to realize how special his words were and shared an actual audio clip of Boozoo sharing a few words of wisdom.
Don't Start No Sh** - A great little duet of him and another singer with a huge low end bass playing that will shake any room it is played in...
This year's Long Beach Bayou Festival has an incredible line up of Zydeco and Cajun artists. I am consistently impressed each year with the artists they are able to book and this year they blew my Zydeco dance stomping mind!!.
Chris Ardoin, Geno Delafose, Joel Savoy, Jesse Lege, Lil Wayne, Kevin Naquin, J Paul Jr. just to name a few....
From this line up I can already see that I will be lucky if I can walk back to my car after dancing all weekend ;)..
