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Beaumont Enterprise (blog)
A Zydeco tradition living on in C.J. Chenier
Beaumont Enterprise (blog)
“When I was in school, some of the people who are crazy about Zydeco now, and are dancing to it, used to tease me about it,” said Chenier. “Now they're fanatics.” Chenier's musical genes trace to his legendary father Clifton Chenier, who critics in the ...

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Video du Jour: GIVERS Cover Paul Simon
OffBeat Magazine
The pairing of the group with the song makes even more sense, since “That Was Your Mother”—a zydeco tune that referenced Lafayette, zydeco and Clifton Chenier—was originally recorded for Graceland with Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. in the Cajun capital.

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Around Acadiana for May 22, 2012
The Advocate
The Veterans Action Coalition will hold its monthly meeting at 7 pm Thursday at the Clifton Chenier Center. Dr. Mark Stellingworth will give a presentation on heart health and an update on the progress of expanded specialty health services offered in ...


 
Zydeco landmark marks grand re-opening
KATC Lafayette News
The birthplace of Grammy winners Clifton Chenier, Rockin' Sidney and Terrance Simien, St. Landry Parish is the cradle of zydeco music. Another zydeco original in the parish is reborn this weekend with the three-day grand opening of Miller's Zydeco Hall ...


 
9NEWS.com
Big Bear zoo got the Blues
Big Bear Grizzly
Headliner Cheiner carries on the tradition of his father, Zydeco great Clifton Chenier. According to Downbeat Magazine, “his vocals drip with top-line Louisiana hot sauce.” CJ Chenier plays accordion-based American blues and danceable two-steps, ...
Blues For The Zoo tickets go on sale June 1stHighland Community News (subscription)

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Remembering African-American Artist Frederick J. Brown, Peripatetic Painter of ...
ARTINFO
His subjects ranged across an encyclopedic spectrum of music and art titans, from Thelonious Monk and Bessie Smith to Clifton Chenier and de Kooning. In an interview in 1988 with Lowery Sims, then the Metropolitan Museum of Art's associate curator of ...


 
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
USA TODAY
CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band pump up the Zydeco sounds on the Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage. His accordion bears the name of his father Clifton Chenier, also a famed Zydeco musician. The Big Steppers dance around the grounds of the ...

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