BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet

Date: Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018 7:30 p.m.

Location: The Temple Theater, 1011 Locust St, Des Moines, IA, 50309

Event Information

Description

For the past 40 years, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. Born out of the rich Acadian ancestry of its members, and created and driven by bandleader Michael Doucet's spellbinding fiddle playing and soulful vocals, BeauSoleil is notorious for bringing even the most staid audience to its feet. BeauSoleil's distinctive sound derives from the distilled spirits of New Orleans jazz, blues rock, folk, swamp pop, Zydeco, country and bluegrass, captivating listeners from the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, to Carnegie Hall, then all the way across the pond to Richard Thompson's Meltdown Festival in England. Since becoming the first Cajun band to win a GRAMMY with L'amour Ou La Folie (Traditional Folk Album - 1998) and then a second Grammy in 2010, Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, BeauSoleil has garnered many accolades, including 12 GRAMMY nominations, the latest being their 2009 release "Alligator Purse." Critics unanimously agree that it is "bon temps, every time they play," (New York Times).

Host Organization

Des Moines Performing Arts

Website

https://desmoinesperformingarts.org/events/2018-beausoleil/

Pricing Information

$46 - $61

Contact

Cathy Long
(515) 246-2368
cathyl@DesMoinesPerformingArts.org