Queen Ida and Her Bon Temps Zydeco Band
Friday, May 10 - 7:30
$18 General, $16 Students, Seniors, Children
Every performance by Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeko Band is a
celebration! Everywhere she has taken her music, from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo,
from Dakar to Lake Woebegone or from Saturday Night Live to Austin
City Limits , people respond. They clap, they sing, they get moving,
and they come back for more. Queen Ida's audience is always diverse--young
and old, Prarie Home Companion types, intellectual rock fans, members
of the Cajun-Creole community, women's music fans anf folk music enthusiasts--and
they're growing by leaps and bounds. They come for Zydeco music and wind
up spellbound by Ida's exuberance.
Part of a statewide tour coordinated by the Performing Arts Presenters of
Hawaii.
What the critics say...
"two hours of sheer, guiltless pleasure...if Queen Ida can't move you,
you can't be moved."
-Dallas News
"...infectiously upbeat, the sextet's crossover brand of Zydeco
prompted a couple of boisterous standing ovations and encores." -The
Washington Post
"Queen Ida's brand of Cajun music was so exhilarating that
you could see waves of pleasure passing through the crowd like exploding
firecrackers." -Utah Holiday Magazine
Radio, Television, and Films
Saturday Night Live, Good Morning America, Mr. Rogers, Nashville Now,
Celebration Express, Austin City Limits, Prarie Home Companion, Aly Meets
The Cajuns, Rublefish - Francis Coppola...and many more
Fairs and Festivals
Monterey Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Expo 86, Firefly Festival,
Jazzjuhlein - Finland, Cambridge Folk Festival, Crawfish Festival, Vancouver
Folk Music Festival, San Francisco Blues Festival, Festival de Jazz - France,
Montreal Jazz Festival, Chicago Folk Festival, Barnveld Festival - Holland,
Winnepeg Folk Festival, Festival Folk de Nyon - Switzerland...and many more
Colleges and Universities
Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Maine, Universities
of California (Davis, San Diego, Berkely, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, Riverside,
San Francisco), University of South Carolina, Humboldt State University,
University of Colorado, University of Michigan, University of Alaska, University
of Utah, Brigham Young University, University of Wisconsin, Pepperdine University,
Claremont College...and many more.
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