The Grammy-winning Michael Doucet, known for the Cajun sound he joyfully shares with the world through his long-term band, BeauSoleil, is now shaking it up with a new band and new music which “isn’t ...
BeauSoleil’s fiddlin’ frontman Michael Doucet admits he’s at the point in his life where he can do whatever the hell he wants, hence Lâcher Prise, an intriguing solo project with such kindred spirits ...
The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band has been playing together since 1977. The band includes husband and wife Marc and Ann Savoy, on accordion and guitar respectively, and Michael Doucet of Beausoleil on ...
LAFAYETTE PARISH (LAFAYETTE) — Grammy-winning artist Michael Doucet and Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith are teaming up for a unique performance that will blend music and poetry in a special ...
We are live with BeauSoleil, the venerable Cajun roots, folk and modernist band, looking back and ahead after fifty years. Brothers Michael and David Doucet were joined by Michael’s son Matthew, also ...
SHEFFIELD — According to Michael Doucet, Cajun music comes from a great many people and places — at its heart, an oral tradition of a stubborn French diaspora met with African, Native American and ...
Michael Doucet is breaking out his fiddle to join former Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith in a first-ever collaboration of music and spoken word Thursday in Lafayette at a pop-up event from ...
The new Cajun/Zydeco Grammy category has some resonance for Michael Doucet, frontman of the 30-year-old band BeauSoleil, which a decade ago became the first Cajun outfit — and the only one until the ...
In its 40-year career, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has nabbed several Grammy Award nominations (and a couple of wins), produced two dozen albums, and remains a standard-bearer for Cajun music as it ...