The Revelers will play cajun, blues, zydeco and swamp pop at CHIRP’s free Ballard Park concert Tuesday.
The Revelers, returning to CHIRP’s free concert series on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at 7 p.m. in Ballard Park, are made up of original members of The Red Stick Ramblers and The Pine Leaf Boys, two bands at the forefront of Louisiana’s cultural renaissance.
A few years ago they came together to form a super group that combines the Cajun, blues and zydeco with swamp-pop, a form of music from the Louisiana of the 50s and 60s. The concert has been generously underwritten by Sam Hur of Ridgefield Cleaners, who is one of CHIRP’s most loyal long-term donors.
Swamp-pop has been called Louisiana’s answer to the R&B and rock ’n’ roll that came out of Memphis and Detroit in the 50s. When that sound reached Southwest Louisiana the Cajun and zydeco musicians traded in their fiddles and accordions for horns and electric guitars that gave their music its own special twist. Wait till you hear that saxophone!
The members of the Revelers are all successful musicians in their own right, having recorded with T Bone Burnett, Natalie Merchant, Linda Ronstadt and many others. Together they were all featured in the third and fourth seasons of HBO’s Treme. While the band may have blurred the lines between traditional and original, Cajun and zydeco, swamp-pop and the blues, the music The Revelers make is tight and cohesive.
So put on your dancin’ shoes and come on out for some Louisiana jukebox music.
Last year the band had quite a few in the audience up and dancing even before it got too dark to be seen! Rain venue for this concert is The Ridgefield Playhouse. Check out the band at RevelersBand.com
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