Monday, September 30, 2013

Festival-O-Rama --- Festivals Across America

Everybody has their own information sources of where to find the latest Cajun/Zydeco festival info and I just wanted to review a few of the major sources and some possible new sources you may not know about...

a) www.iCajunZydeco.com
"Festival-O-Rama"...
Although it's a website from the San Diego C/Z community is has the "Festival-O-Rama", which does a great job of listing some of the big festivals around the country.  When you go to the web site just scroll down on the left side to see the "Festival-O-Rama" listing...
This is brought to you by Jim Hance who has done the clubs website/graphic design for many years among other related C/Z sites.

b) USA Schedule Map
http://www.arnb.org/Usalinks.php
This is a map done by Arn's website which does a great job of linking to local Cajun/Zydeco websites around the country.  Just move your mouse over whatever state your interested in events and select the newsletter options.


c) Arn's Website..
www.ZydecoSchedule.com
or www.CajunSchedule.com
Arn's website does a great job of searching and showing a ton of Cajun/Zydeco info happening all around the world.  Recently it did go to a paid subscription type of service to see the locations of the events.  You can post your own events for free! 


d) Dick Brainard puts out a great info newsletter on some of the big festivals and it's a great way to keep up on changing band and other schedules of where people are staying.. roommate's needed etc...   
Click on the following link to shoot email to be added to his list...
http://www.cascadezydeco.com/about.shtml



Thursday, September 26, 2013

Floyd's Record Shop Online Open - Physical Store Closes - 56 years

Floyd's Record Shop in Ville Platte Louisiana has been serving the Cajun/Zydeco music lovers needs for 56 years and while the online store is still open they closed the actual store.

Check out this interesting video clip interviewing "Floyd", from the local news channel on the store closing...

If you have never gotten their catalog before of their mail order business visit their website below and get on their mail list as the catalog is well put together and interesting to browse through.

Their website is www.floydsrecordshop.com




 

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Zydeco Artists Get Paid to Advertise for Louisiana

Louisiana's Lt. Gov Jay Dardeen is paying touring bands who travel outside of Louisiana to give out Handkerchiefs, T-shirts and other promotional material for the state.  The Louisiana Music Ambassador Project is giving selected artists $1000 to $2000 for their promotional marketing actions. 

Check out the full story at the following link...
http://www.theadvertiser.com/viewart/20130905/ACADIANA04/309050002/Herman-Fuselier-Lieutenant-governor-has-money-musicians

Full details of the project are listed at the following link...
http://louisianasoundtrack.com/content/ambassador