Home

Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Announces Full Schedule

No Comments Latest Blues News

Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music FestivalThe 26th Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival will fill Memorial Day weekend with an outstanding lineup of Cajun, Zydeco, Creole, Blues and Roots music with simultaneous performances on two stages both Saturday and Sunday, May 23rd and 24th. The full schedule has been released and is at the bottom of this article. Tickets are $25 at the gate. Discount single day tickets of $20 weekend passes for $35 are available only online: www.simicajun.org


Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music FestivalRoyal Southern Brotherhood:
Before they even hit a chord, this band has your attention. In the South, where music is religion, two rock ‘n’ roll bloodlines tower above all others. In saloon bars from Mississippi to Maryland, mere mention of the Allman and Neville Brothers casts a magic spell. With a lineup that includes both Cyril Neville and Devon Allman, Royal Southern Brotherhood come pre-loaded with expectations. The family tree might be auspicious, but the new band trades on talent, not genealogy. Let’s rewind to the summer of 2010 and the stifling heat of New Orleans and a pivotal meeting between Cyril, Devon and Mike Zito. Talk turned to forming a new breed of blues-rock band, and when jams began at a secluded studio in the city’s Garden District, the fizzing chemistry was too strong to deny. Their debut album was produced by the legendary Jim Gaines in Louisiana. The rest is history as the band is set to release their third studio album, Don’t Look Back: The Muscle Shoals Sessions, on May 26.

www.royalsouthernbrotherhood.com

Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music FestivalThe Magnolia Sisters are a band of women who can play the whole gamut of musical styles from southwest Louisiana: Cajun, Creole, dancehall favorites, and front porch ballads. They each switch from one instrument to another during their shows. They are also an ideal band for seated concerts because, in addition to their vast dancehall repertoire, they tell stories, sing rich harmonies on a cappella ballads, and play string band numbers from the 1930s. Much of the Magnolia Sisters’ music has been gleaned from long-buried Cajun music jewels. Their most recent album, Stripped Down on Arhoolie Records, was nominated for a Grammy in 2010.

www.magnoliasisters.com

Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music FestivalLeo “Bud” Welch was born in Sabougla, Miss. in 1932. Bud picked up a guitar for the first time in 1945. By 1947 at age 15, he played well enough to perform publically and garnered the blessing of many elder guitar players. Welch was offered an audition by B.B. King but could not afford the trip to Memphis. He remained under the radar for 65 years, undetected by the vast majority of blues aficionados. Welch’s debut album, Sabougla Voices, was released in 2014 on Fat Possum’s Big Legal Mess label, just two months before his 82nd birthday. The follow up, I Don’t Prefer No Blues, was released on March 24 of this year, receiving notices in The Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone.

www.leobudwelch.com

2015 SIMI VALLEY CAJUN & BLUES MUSIC FESTIVAL

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, MAY 23rd

BLUES STAGE 

  • 12:15pm Leo “Bud” Welch
  • 1:35pm Royal Southern Brotherhood
  • 3:00pm Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
  • 4:45pm Canned Heat
  • 6:20pm Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers
  • 6:25pm The Magnolia Sisters

CAJUN/ZYDECO STAGE

  • 12:25pm Ruben Paul Moreno
  • 1:55pm Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic
  • 3:25pm Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers
  • 4:35pm Mardi Gras Parade
  • 4:55pm Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience
  • 6:25pm The Magnolia Sisters

SUNDAY, MAY 24th

BLUES STAGE

  • 11:45am Reverend Tall Tree
  • 12:55pm Candye Kane
  • 2:05pm Guitar Shorty
  • 3:20pm Big Brother and The Holding Company
  • 4:45pm Spencer Davis Group
  • 6:10pm The Record Company

CAJUN/ZYDECO STAGE

  • 12:25pm Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble
  • 1:50pm Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience
  • 3:15pm The Magnolia Sisters
  • 4:20pm Mardi Gras Parade
  • 4:40pm Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers
  • 6:05pm Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys

Get all the details and discount one and two day tickets for the Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival on the website www.simicajun.org.

In addition to 8 hours of music, simultaneously on two stages, for two days, the Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival features a huge array of food choices from traditional barbecue, funnel cakes and kettle corn to Cajun-Creole food such as jambalaya, crawfish and alligator. There are over 100 craft and merchandise booths to browse through. Supporting the festive atmosphere will be a traditional New Orleans style mardi gras parade which winds its way through the venue each afternoon.

Once again the blues stage is booked by Martin Fleischmann and his company, Rum & Humble. For more than 20 years Rum & Humble has played a key role in presenting some of the world’s most celebrated musical talent (Radiohead, Manu Chao, and the Rolling Stones, to name a few) to Los Angeles audiences, in venues ranging from the Echoplex to the Orpheum Theatre to the Hollywood Bowl. The company has co-produced the Santa Monica Pier’s Twilight Concert Series since 2011. In addition, Rum & Humble has collaborated closely and creatively with artists such as Jackson Browne and Paul Oakenfold as well as with a varied roster of corporate and non-profit clients ranging from KJAZZ Radio to the Conga Room nightclub to the National Geographic Society.

Tickets for the 26th Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival are $ 25 per day at the gate for adults ages 13 and above (kids 12 and younger are free). Available only online are discount single day tickets for $ 20 and two day passes for $ 35. www.simicajun.org

 

Facebooktwitterinstagram

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Tags: