Botanical Roots Outdoor Concert Series: Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience (Zydeco)

 
Event
September 02, 2011
Botanical Roots Outdoor Concert Series
Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience
Friday, September 2, 2011
Doors open at 7:30 pm
Opening act starts at 8:30 pm

For nearly 30 years, Grammy award winning artist, 8th generation Louisiana Creole has been shattering the myths about what his indigenous Zydeco music is and is not. Leading his Zydeco Experience band, Simien has become one of the most respected and internationally recognized touring and recording artists in roots music today. He has performed over 6000 concerts, toured millions of miles to over 45 countries and reached at least a million people during his eventful career that spans 3 decades.

His musical roots are firmly planted alongside the great zydeco pioneers like Chenier, Delafose, Chavis, Ardoin and that other Simien (Rockin Sidney) to name a few. He counts himself one of the fortunate few from the last generation with a direct link to these artists, some of whom mentored him as an emerging talent.

Simien is blessed with an extraordinary talent that expresses the deepest human emotions through the original instrument: The Voice. He takes his audiences on a multicultural tour of the world as his music language has been informed by the many countries he has visited in his touring. He creates a hypnotic blend of New Orleans funk-reggae-flavored-Afro-Caribbean-world, roots zydeco music that will force you out of your seat grooving all the way to the dance floor!

Simien, along with his business partner/wife was successful in leading the effort to establish a new Grammy category for "Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album". In 2008 he opened the 50th Grammy Awards pre-Telecast ceremony with a 10 minute performance and later that day received the first Grammy given in the new category.

Admission:  $6.00
Children 12 & under free with parent or guardian
 
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