BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, the most widely traveled and famous Cajun-French band, has launched its final tour. However absolute that sounds, the celebratory trek isn’t BeauSoleil’s last ...

BeauSoleil marks a milestone next week at the Acadiana Center for the Arts. On Thursday, Feb. 1, and Friday, Feb. 2, current and former band members and their musician friends will stage a 50th ...

Oct. 13—I suspect that if you'd told Michael Doucet, back when he decided to form the Louisiana band BeauSoleil and explore, honor and curate the future of Cajun music, that they'd be going 45 ...

Carrying French, German, African and Caribbean influences -- yet still uniquely North American -- Cajun music is BeauSoleil's specialty. "Every time I play or sing a tune, I think about its ...

BeauSoleil — a two-time Grammy-winning band from Louisiana — is often known as BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet. But this time, the band performed their Fairbanks and Anchorage shows without its ...

In last year’s Wheeler Opera House performance, Louisiana’s Beausoleil played its Cajun fiddle music with ... updated sound on “Walkin’ in the Shadow of Life.” The band – which now includes two ...

It’s a unique tradition — one that Doucet and his award-winning five-piece band BeauSoleil will bring to Race Brook Lodge 8 p.m. April 2. Doucet promised an evening of fun and familiarity when the ...

American musician and New Orleans record producer Allen Toussaint said of the band, “BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, they play music that’s honest to the bone!” The band will bring its ...

It was just this simple place.” Beausoleil, the veteran Louisiana group led by fiddler and singer Michael Doucet, was one of the bands Carpenter regularly saw at the Twist and Shout, and she ...

FAIRBANKS — Most bands that have been on the road for three-plus decades tend to start slowing down. Not so for BeauSoleil and Michael Doucet. In its 37th year, the Lafayette, La.-based Cajun ...

There’s freedom for everybody because of the mutual respect though.” Fittingly, the seeds of the band can be traced back to Mardi Gras 2018. Ambling around the streets of New Orleans among ...