The
City of Lake Charles and Louisiana Crossroads
will present an evening with the Savoy Cajun Family Band and Good & Young
Family Band in the Ben Mount Auditorium in Central School,
Wednesday, November 20 at 7pm.
The Savoy Family Band, which features Marc Savoy, his
wife Ann and their two sons, Joel and Wilson,
hails from the small Cajun prairie town of Eunice,
Louisiana.
The Savoy Family Cajun Band
plays honed down, hard-core Cajun music laced with an earthy sensuality. In
their hands, the old tunes have
been revived and returned to new life. They are all strong individual musicians working together to create a tight,
intense sound.
The quartet of Good &
Young is a family ensemble rooted in the dance and music traditions of Old
Time, Bluegrass and Country. With fiddle,
banjo, guitar and bass, they are a festival of rhythm, dance and harmony.
Rick Good met Sharon Leahy on the old time circuit of the seventies—he with the
Hotmud Family, she with the Green Grass Cloggers. They have been performing
with their daughter, Emma Young for more than twenty years, largely in their
dance and music company, Rhythm in Shoes. Just a few years ago, wedding bells
rang and the family band grew to include Emma's talented husband, Linzay Young.
Rick was a 2010, Ohio Heritage Fellow and is recognized and respected for his
accomplished banjo playing, heartfelt singing and crafty songwriting. Sharon has received
numerous fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the National Endowment for
the Arts. Her love and understanding of American tradition is clearly seen and
heard through her award-winning choreography, artful singing and driving rhythm
on guitar and bass. Emma, a rock-solid bass player and a fine harmony singer,
was presented the Josie Award, her hometown of Dayton's highest honor for dance, in 2003.
Linzay is a versatile fiddler, soulful singer, well-seasoned songwriter and culinary
force. He is a founding member of the Red Stick Ramblers and a true link in the
chain of Cajun Music and Culture. Carrying on the family traditions of song and
dance, Good & Young serve it up with joyous taste and well-seasoned know
how.
Advance
tickets can be purchased for $12 at the Arts and Humanities Council of
Southwest Louisiana on the second floor of Central School,
or on line at www.cityoflakecharles.com.
Tickets at the door will be $15. For more
information, please call (337) 491-9159.
The series will continue in the Central
School with Gal Holiday
& the Honky Tonk Revue on Wednesday, March 26, 2014; and Grammy-nominated,
British soul singer James Hunter and his band the James Hunter Six with
Louisiana All Stars on Tuesday, April 8, 2014. For
a complete line-up of season 14, including the Lafayette performances, go to www.acadianacenterforthearts.org.
