Pointe Noir Cajun Band in Marshfield Gazebo Concert Series!
Date: Thursday, July 13th - 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Jaquith Public Library, 122 School Street, Marshfield, VT 05658
Admission: Free!
Come to the gazebo on the Old Schoolhouse Common for some rocking rhythms of Cajun music! Bring a chair or a blanket to picnic on.
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. Mark Sustic will join on bass. Mark Sustic is an educator and musician from northwestern Vermont, playing bass for Cajun dance music including Yankee Chank, the Savoy Family Band, Michael Doucet, Tracy Schwartz, Ken Smith, Hadley Castille, Merlin Fontenot and others in Vermont, Louisiana and throughout the US and Canada.
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.
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