IND L!VE offers highlights of the many live music events taking place around Acadiana this weekend.
DTA! - RODDIE ROMERO & THE HUB CITY ALL STARS
Friday, March 11
Parc International
Doors: 5:30 p.m.
Admission: Free
Everyone’s favorite Friday night party is back this Spring with another exciting lineup! Downtown Alive! (DTA!) is back March 11th with Roddie Romero & the Hub City Allstars kicking off a banner season. DTA! begins at 5:30 p.m. with food and beverage concessions – musical performances from 6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Concession sales help keep DTA! free, so leave your ice chests at home with your pets and don’t be a mooch, buy DTA! For more information, visit DowntownLafayette.org. Downtown Alive! is produced by Downtown Lafayette in cooperation with Lafayette Consolidated Government.
COMMUNITY CENTER + LAFIASCO + CROSSTOWN SOUL
Friday, March 11
Feed & Seed
Doors: 8 p.m.
Admission: $10
Join Feed N Seed Lafayette as it welcomes back touring act Community Center. Community Center An indie rock band brought up on Classical and Jazz. Over the course of a few years, have developed a vast of sound melting together Rock, Jazz, Funk, Folk and old Southern Hymns. LaFiasco formed right down the road in Freetown during the summer of 2015, these guys combine an intriguing blend of soul and rock n' roll to send their message. With their debut album, "FEVER" on the rise, these boys are giving it all they've got to deliver a must-see live performance. Crosstown Soul is a band with deep roots in dirty, raw unfiltered Blues riffs with melodic and dynamic tunes. Pulling from influences such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Buddy Guy and other greats, they strive to keep the blues alive and present it to a new generation.
CONES OF UNCERTAINTY
Friday, March 11
Artmosphere Bistro
Doors: 9 p.m.
Come join us for an evening of interesting sounds on the sonic superhighway with Cones of Uncertainty, Marie et la Toilette and our special guests from Houston Jealous Creatures.
THE LAST SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN TOUR: ELLIS & DELFEAYO MARSALIS
Friday, March 11
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Doors: 7:30 p.m.
The Last Southern Gentlemen is a landmark recording for Delfeayo Marsalis, pairing the trombonist with father Ellis Marsalis, Jr. on a collaborative album for the first time.
THE RAYO BROTHERS + EDISON + DUSTIN GASPARD
Friday, March 11
Blue Moon Saloon
Doors: 9 p.m.
Edison kicks off the evening at 9:30pm followed by Dustin Gaspard at 10:30pm and The Rayo Brothers at 11:30pm.
JEFFERY BROUSSARD
Saturday, March 12
Blue Moon Saloon
Doors: 10 p.m.
Whether he is playing a festival stage in front of thousands of dancers, a small theater of seated patrons, giving an interview, teaching a lesson, or playing at a trail ride, his warmth, love of the music, and talent shine. Jeffery Broussard is the real deal. Dedicated to preserving and promoting the Creole culture and traditional Zydeco music, he plays with passion and commitment.
MATT BABINEAUX CD RELEASE + HUMBLE KIND
Saturday, March 12
Feed & Seed
Doors: 8 p.m.
Admission: $10
Feed N Seed Lafayette presents its third 1063 Radio Lafayette Session featuring Matt Babineaux + Humble Kind. Join us as Feed N Seed Lafayette welcomes back Matt Babineaux as he releases his debut album "A Place To Fall." A Place To Fall, recoreded at Leap Studios, features the incredible stylings of Lafayette locals Sweet Cecilia, Social Circle, Jim McGee. Social Circle will be joining Matt on stage during his performance.
MEGAN JEAN & THE KFB + Mad Minstrels + Pirate’s Canoe
Saturday, March 12
Artmosphere Bistro
Doors: 9 p.m.
We are excited to return to Lafayette with The Mad Minstrels (featuring Jon Stone and Cedric Watson), and Pirate's Canoe (Japan). This is gonna be a great night of good ole Americana, folks.
SCARECROW
Sunday, March 13
Blue Moon Saloon
Doors: 9 p.m.
After 500 gigs in 15 countries, during 6 years, in a fully DIY attitude, Scarecrow become one of France's most hard-touring bands. Dark, explosive and strangely coherent, the quartet innovates by proposing a real and unique style: the Blues-Hiphop, protest music of the XXIth century, thorned from a dobro or scratched from an old vinyl….From working songs born in american cotton fields in the early 20th, to urban sounds fed by big cities in the 80's, the quartet give an original tribute to the founding movements in playing with the musical codes, bringing back the blues to the harassing sun, and hip hop to its instrumental's roots. On stage, Slim Paul -the bluesman- and Antibiotik Daw -MC 'n DJ- settle generations in a dangerous exercise: melt two languages, two cultures and two instruments that nothing attract, followed by the unbelievable groove of the bass/drums Jamo and le Pap’s. The mood, the sound, the show... Scarecrow, it's groove and consciousness, the band manages to do just that is rare, combine the form and content.