“The best Cajun band in the World!” – Garrison Keillor

For the past 37 years, the Grammy Award-winning group, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. When listening to BeauSoleil during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, legend Bob Dylan declared, “That’s my kind of music!”

Born out of the rich Acadian ancestry of its members and created and driven by bandleader Michael Doucet’s spellbinding fiddle playing and soulful vocals, BeauSoleil is notorious for bringing even the most staid audience to its feet. BeauSoleil’s distinctive sound derives from the distilled spirits of New Orleans jazz, blues rock, folk, swamp pop, Zydeco, country and bluegrass – captivating listeners from the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans to Carnegie Hall and all the way across the pond to the Meltdown Festival in England. They have also been one of the most frequent guests on NPR’s iconic “A Prairie Home Companion.”

“The remarkable thing about Cajun revivalists BeauSoleil is that…they are still inviting us to ask what’s new. BeauSoleil isn’t neo-anything. This ensemble finds freshness not by infusing vintage styles with contemporary sonics but with vibrant, thoughtful fusions. ” – The Boston Globe

Student and adult tickets for the performance are $35.20 & $44 respectively and may be purchased in advance at the Cal Poly Ticket Office, Monday – Saturday, noon to 6 p.m., located on Grand Avenue on the Cal Poly campus; by phone at 805/756-4849;

Sponsored by Mary T. Baiamonte, Claudia Gilbert, KCBX 90.1 FM, KPYG 94.9 FM

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