David Greely + The Creole Brothers

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PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 8.30pm.

The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of seats. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, so if you'd like a seat, please ensure you arrive early.

We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.15pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
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An evening of spicy Cajun Music!

DAVID GREELY (US):

David Greely’s is opening a new wing in his tradition, the home music of French Louisiana. David has taken the swampy syncopations of Cajun music and its renaissance French dialect to new level of sophistication without losing its urgency and texture. In solo acoustic performance, he sounds like two or three fiddles, weaving accompaniment to his vocals as if it’s someone else singing. Presenting his concerts in English or French, he embraces all the aspects of his heritage that a fiddle and voice can reach- ancient ballads, cane field blues, yearning waltzes and fiery two steps, and melds his ancestral legacy with his own adroit compositions and stories of the rich souls who kept this music and language alive.

David was born in Baton Rouge of Cajun and Irish ancestry, and learned Cajun music on dance hall stages throughout South Louisiana, in the archives of Cajun and Creole music at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, and from his apprenticeship to Cajun fiddle master and National Heritage Fellow Dewey Balfa. As a founding member of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, David toured Folk Festivals worldwide for 23 years, and was nominated for four Grammy Awards. He has received the Louisiana Artist Fellowship Award for Folklife Performance, and is an adjunct instructor of Cajun fiddle at the University of Louisiana.


THE CREOLE BROTHERS (UK):

From the roots of zydeco, the push and pull, rub and scrub La La music of the Creole people. Dark, smoky, crowded clubs in Lawtell and Opelousas and Lafayette. Bodies moving closely in rhythm. Driving fiddle, pumping accordion, vocals that can cut corn bread. Blues that tear at your heart. Dances you wouldn't want your daughter to know.

From the prairies of Essex and the bayous of Milton Keynes, Charlie Skelton (fiddle, Acadian Driftwood, Famous Potatoes) and Phil Underwood (accordion, Colin and the Crawfish, ZigaZag) present a unique musical hommage to the great Louisiana Cajun and Creole musicians, Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Bébé and Éraste Carrière, Albert Chevalier, Fremont Fontenot and many others.

Charlie Skelton is one of the hottest roots fiddle players around, currently touring with rising folk singer songwriter Kate Denny, while Phil Underwood has been living Louisiana music and culture for over 20 years, collecting two awards in Louisiana for his accordion playing, and has played Creole music in the black clubs of Lafayette.

Together they are the Creole Brothers.