IND L!VE offers highlights of the many live music events taking place around Acadiana this weekend.
ACADIANA ROOTS WITH WAYNE TOUPS
Thursday, April 7
Feed & Seed
Doors: 7 p.m.
Admission: $15
Cajun music icon Wayne Toups shares music and conversation in a special edition of Acadiana Roots at 7 p.m. April 7 at Feed N Seed in downtown Lafayette. Tickets are $15 with a portion of the proceeds benefitting Louisiana Folk Roots, a Cajun and Creole cultural preservation nonprofit based in Lafayette. With his popular rock- and R&B-influenced style, Toups has attracted new generations of fans and artists to Cajun music. Toups won the 2013 Best Regional Roots Grammy as a member of the trio Courtbouillon. Pre-order your tickets for an intimate evening with Wayne Toups at the Feed N Seed.
SPOONFED TRIBE
Thursday, April 7
Blue Moon Saloon
Doors: 10 p.m.
Admission: $3
An original, avant-garde, rock percussion act. With multiple drummers, their music easily turns from SONG into a percussive wall of sound.
$3 Throwback Thursday cover!
RHYTHMS ON THE RIVER: THE TONY GOULAS BAND + REX MOROUX
Thursday, April 7
River Ranch Town Square
Doors: 5:30 p.m.
Music! Food! Fun! We hope to see you there! This concert is free! No ice chests or pets, please. River Ranch Town Square - 5:30-8:30 PM.
JAMBALAYA JAM
Thursday, April 7
Parc International
Doors: 5 p.m.
Admission: $7
Kiwanis Club Southwest-Lafayette is hosting its first Jambalaya Jam at Parc International Thursday, April 7 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The fundraiser benefits United Way of Acadiana to help more children graduate on time, individuals gain financial stability and families meet their basic needs. The public is invited to enjoy $7 all-you-can-eat jambalaya. Kids younger than 10 enter for free. This is a family-friendly event with musical entertainment by Grammy winner Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band. Public is welcome to bring chairs. Ice chests are not permitted. For more information, visit www.UnitedWayofAcadiana.org or call 337-233-8302.
ANDREW MILL & THE 5AM RUMBLE STRIP + SABRA & THE GET RIGHTS
Friday, April 8
Feed & Seed
Doors: 9:30 p.m.
Admission: $10
Feed N Seed Lafayette welcomes Andrew Mill & 5am Rumble Strip. Doors open at 8; show begins at 9:30. $10 cover. Andrew Mill & 5am Rumble Strip are the Celtic/Alt-Country/Folk quartet based out of the UK delivers songs of burnt deserts and bubbling sea graves, borrowed lovers and stolen wine, crumbling moorlands, nursed loneliness, the biting cold… shotguns, old dogs, tire marks and teary-eyed waitresses… black skies, rivers dried, ancient eyes, life sentence lies. Sabra & The Get Rights is a band reminiscent of the days when Hank Williams’ injected some blues into his country soul, harkening back to the 1950s when honky tonk bands made sure the dance floor was full and pumping.
POODOO SOUL FEST PART ONE
Friday, April 8
Artmosphere Bistro
Doors: 8 p.m.
Admission: $7
Bawh lemme tell ya, dey aint enuff coonass in dis big city, dats why we bringing our perogs and hip boots to Artmosphere Friday April 8th to dance stomp tru da floor of dis place T. Bands are 9PM Blake Simon, 9:30PM Makers Reel, 11PM Dustin Gaspard &The Freetown Sound. MC is Kyle Monceaux. Doors Open: 8PM, show starts 9:30. Doors open at 8Pm 21 and up $7 -under $10.
FEUFOLLET + BONSOIR CATIN
Friday, April 8
Blue Moon Saloon
Doors: 9 p.m.
Feufollet kicks things off at 9pm followed by Bonsoir, Catin at 10:30pm.Deathbed ballads meet glockenspiels and omnichords. Cajun French choruses are written on iPhones. Indie-rock vibes invade Acadian archives. Welcome to the world of Feufollet, a band both deeply rooted in the francophone soil of Louisiana and pushing boldly into unexplored yet utterly natural varieties of Cajun experience. Though famous for their renditions of heartbreaking songs and rollicking tunes, their set features originals that draw on deep roots tempered by a cutting edge of contemporary life. Since Bonsoir, Catin burst upon the folk music scene in 2005, they have been rocking Louisiana dancehalls and festivals with their fresh Cajun sound that is a unique blend of ancient ballads, dancehall era gems, swamp pop stylings, and rock n’ roll blues. The Bonsoir, Catin sound rides a wave rhythm, a pulse, an under the skin sensation, a heartbeat. Their newest recording to date, Light the Stars is a collection of fresh, evocative new Cajun music that pushes the limits of imagination and form.
DTA! ZYDECO RADIO
Friday, April 8
Parc Sans Souci
Doors: 5:30 p.m.
This season, DTA! is bringing some of the best Cajun and Zydeco party bands with Roddie Romero & the Hub City Allstars and Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas; rock favorites that you won’t find anywhere else like Cowboy Mouth; fresh faces to DTA! such as Zydeco Radio and The Revelers; national Country stars Little Texas and closing out with local legends the Boogie Kings. Hear them all in the DTA! Spring 2016 Playlist. 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 http://www.downtownlafayette.org. Downtown Alive! is produced by Downtown Lafayette in cooperation with Lafayette Consolidated Government.
BACH LUNCH: THE REVELERS
Friday, April 8
Parc Sans Souci
Doors: 12 p.m.
The Lafayette Science Museum Foundation is pleased to announce its spring 2016 Bach Lunch season lineup. Bach Lunch will be celebrating 28 years this spring as the popular free lunch hour series featuring different musicians performing from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Lunches are available for purchase from local restaurants on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 11:15 a.m. The concerts are held in downtown Lafayette at Parc Sans Souci at the corner of Polk, Congress and Vermilion streets. Proceeds go to the support of the Lafayette Science Museum.
BRASS MIMOSA PRESENTS THE DISSONANT SESSIONS WITH CEDRIC WATSON & BIJOU CREOLE
Saturday, April 9
Blue Moon Saloon
Doors: 9:30 p.m.
Consonant chords are, roughly speaking, made up of notes that 'sound good' together, like middle C and the G above it (an interval called a fifth). Dissonant chords are combinations that sound jarring, like middle C and the C sharp above (a minor second). The Dissonant Sessions will pair bands that would be possibly considered to be "jarring bands to pair." Over the course of the evening the two bands will collaborate on various tunes. For its debut, the Dissonant Sessions will feature the funky grooves of Brass Mimosa joined by the French Creole stylings of Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole.
LILLYBRAVE + OH!KELLY + DELTA SEDO
Saturday, April 9
Artmosphere Bistro
Doors: 9 p.m.
LillyBrave headline at Artmosphere along with Oh!Kelly and Delta Sedo.
JOSH GRACIN & JARYD LANE
Saturday, April 9
Feed & Seed
Doors: 9:30 p.m.
Admission: $10
Josh Gracin LIVE at the Feed N Seed Lafayette. Established country artist since his breakthrough in 2003 as a Top 4 finalist in the 2003 American Idol will be live on stage at the Feed N Seed Saturday, April 9th. Josh Gracin's rise to fame comminced upon the release of his certified gold, self-titled debut album in 2004 featuring hit singles "I Want to Live," "Nothin' to Lose," and "Stay with Me [Brass Bed]" All reached the top five on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, with "Nothin' to Lose", the second of those three, reaching Number One. We Weren't Crazy, Josh's second album, produced 5 singles which charted in the Top 40 Hot Country Songs. Josh's third album titled Redemption, released in 2011, featured "Long Way to Go," which became Gracin's first single to chart on the adult contemporary charts. Doors open at 8 pm. Show starts at 9:30.$20 at the Door.
RUNNER OF THE WOODS VINYL RELEASE SHOW
Sunday, April 10
Blue Moon Saloon
Doors: 8 p.m.
Nashville, Tennessee's Runner of the Woods celebrates the vinyl release of their debut album, "Thirsty Valley". Led by Texas-raised Acadian, Nick Beaudoing, the band delivers a hazy, reverb-heavy roots music they call "country-gaze". But dancers need not worry - the band's love of traditional Cajun and honky-tonk ensures that their live show includes enough Cajun and country classics to keep the dance floor packed.