BLACKPOT
Lafayette's raddest roots music festival returns this year. It's like a miniature Woodstock meets Renaissance festival for banjo geeks and roots freaks, looking to hunker down on some corn cob tweakage. In its fifth year, this Blackpot looks to be the best one yet.
October 27, 2010
Written by Dege Legg
BLACKPOT
Lafayette's raddest roots music festival returns this year. It's like a miniature Woodstock meets Renaissance festival for banjo geeks and roots freaks, looking to hunker down on some corn cob tweakage. In its fifth year, this Blackpot looks to be the best one yet.
"We've got the usual Cajun and zydeco dancing along with square dancing, freestyling and more. There's a Halloween costume contest on Saturday and unofficial camper-to-camper trick or treating for adults and kids," says festival organizer Lindzay Young. "We've got a boudin making demo, the cook-off, French song-swap called Chansons Francophone. We want folks to come out and participate and teach or learn some new songs. And we're got the unsung hero and legend of Cajun music Jesse Lege, hosting a Cajun jam. Don't miss that. This is the best festival in the country with the best mixture of hardcore traditional and cutting edge push-the-envelope contemporary roots. It's ear, feet and soul candy." Come dance your demons away and make a friend or spouse or two. And if you think you can hang in the cooking deptartment, step up and stir.
Lot of cool stuff happens at Black Pot this year. "We're super excited to have Horace Trahan playing. He's really taking zydeco music to new heights with his fresh take on the sounds and his original songs about real life," says Young. "He's not taking the same old hooks and tunes and recycling or rearranging the lyrics and calling it his own song. Mad props to Horace, we're glad to have him on board the party ship SS Blackpot."
Blackpot Festival takes place at Acadiana Village (200 Greenleaf Dr. in Lafayette) on Oct. 29-30 with overnight camping, jamming, cooking, and live music.
Blackpot Schedule
Oct. 29
5 p.m. Chansons Francophone (French Song Swap) with Nadine Landry & Ann Savoy
6 p.m. Cajun Jam hosted by Jesse Lege
7 p.m. The Malfecteurs
8:15 Horace Trahan & The New Ossun Express
9:30 p.m. High Performance
10:45-12 a.m. Pine Leaf Boys
Oct. 30
10 a.m. Accordion Contest
11 a.m. Square Dance
12:15 p.m. Eric and Suzy Thompson
12:45 p.m. Ray Abshire website
2 p.m. Andrew & Noah VanNorstrand
2:30 p.m. J.P. Harris & Tough Choices
3:45 p.m. Steve James
4:15 p.m. José Moreno
5:30 p.m. The Good Family Band
6:00 p.m. Henry Gray & The Cats
7:15 p.m. Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
7:45 p.m. Ed Poullard & Preston Frank
8:45 p.m. Hank Sapoznik & the Youngers of Zion
9:15 p.m. Feufollet
10:45 p.m. Red Stick Ramblers
PRE-HALLOWEEN MONSTROUS MASH-UP
It's going to be a tripped out full-on, fun-style freak fest at Grant Street this weekend. With a tripped out, eclectic line up of bands, DJs, punk rock, belly dancers and whatnot. The Botanist, Brass Mimosa, Machete, Foul Stench of Youth, The Tribalist Drum Circle & Trybe Habibi Belly Dancers, Home-Grown Reggae, Brother Dege, El Domania, The Sleepless Sessions, mykronic, DJ Steven Bernard, The Kabuki Crew, Rasta-Sol, King Yellastone, DJ Doctor J, Riffs of Griff and a bunch more will be providing the live entertainment in the all-day event. A portion of the proceeds will go to a local breast cancer awareness organization. Be at Grant Street for the Pre-Halloween Monstrous Mash-up show on Oct. 30.
EYEHATEGOD
Tired of swanky trust fund indie bands divorced from their punk rock roots, carrying the flag for independent music? Right. Me, too. Hardcore metal lords of the doomed crust EYEHATEGOD come through town with their sludge punk, Southern scorch and junk-skronk informed, Zen-nihilism. If you like heavy, this is it. And it's as real as the underground gets. Repurify yourself in the murky waters when EYEHATEGOD plays Sadie's on Oct. 28. Locals munchers Come & Conquer, the Obelisk and Jupiter Death Brigade open the show.
ETC HALLOWEEN EDITION
There's a Halloween costume party with music by Rufus Jagneaux and Michael Juan Nunez & Band at Somewhere's Else Lounge on Oct. 30Halloween Eve Party Booty Hop & Dance Music DJs at Sadie's on Oct. 30Michael Juan Nunez and the River Babys play Antlers on Oct. 29. On Oct. 30, it's Three Cajuns and a Firetruck Comedy night at the Cade Community Center. Proceeds go to the purchase of meals, beverages and supplies for firesThere's a UL Symphony Halloween Concert on Oct. 30 at Angelle Hall Auditorium at ULAcadiana Book Festival happens on Oct. 30 at Cite des Arts, sponsored by the Writers' Guild of AcadianaTexas twangster Jesse Dayton and Mike Dean play Blue Moon on Oct. 29Arenacross comes to Cajundome on Oct. 29-30..PASA's Golden Gala Wine Auction goes down on Oct. 30 at Rivers Oaks Center...Artmosphere hosts Thriller night with a showcase of Michael Jackson hits on Oct. 30...On Oct. 29, Black Bayou Construkt - hands down the greatest band inside of the earth - plays the Halloween edition of Downtown Alive! at Parc Sans Souci from 6 8 p.m