Date: Friday, July 28th - 7-9pm Cajun dance party
Location: Willey Building Auditorium, 3084 Main St, Cabot, VT
Admission: $10 day-of for dance party admission - included in full festival admission if you buy a festival pass. Buy tickets at: https://sevendaystickets.com/
More Info: https://www.cabotarts.org/
Pointe Noir Cajun Band will kick off the Cabot Arts and Music Festival with a Cajun dance party. Don’t miss this festival launch!
Pointe Noir finds its rhythm deeply seated in Southwest Louisiana, where many of its members have studied and learned Cajun music. Katie Trautz is a seasoned fiddle player, who drifted south to the Bayou after many years of playing Old-time music. Chris Hollis, the Montpelier-based old-time guitar player, also found an interest in Cajun music, and together he and Katie traveled to Louisiana to learn the musical traditions there. Cannon Labrie is a long-time Cajun and Zydeco accordion player, playing with well-known New England bands Yankee Chank, Jeannie and the High Tops and Planet Zydeco. This summer Pointe Noir is joined by Andrew Stearns on bass.
Walker Blackwell is a percussionist and fine art printmaker who has been surrounded by cajun music his entire life and has been performing percussion in several local bands - including the Clayfoot Strutters - on and off since he was 4 years old. Christiana Athena-Blackwell is a multi-instrumentalist and music educator. She started singing and drumming in bands in Vermont when she was 14 years old, and continued her performing career for the past 2 decades. Pointe Noir plays an uplifting combination of exciting dance music, country songs, and Cajun tunes from Lafayette and beyond.
Follow the band on Facebook for more events: https://www.facebook.com/
3084 Main St
Cabot, VT
United States