Pointe Noir Cajun Band at Feast and Field Concert Series
Date: Thursday, August 24th, 5:30-8:30pm
Location: 1525 Royalton Turnpike, Barnard, VT 05031
Admission: $5-$25 sliding scale - buy tickets at https://feast-and-field.square.site/tickets
More Info: https://feastandfield.com/

Join Pointe Noir Cajun Band in the orchards of Fable Farm, on a lovely summer's evening, to enjoy music presented by BarnArts, and freshly prepared food that is grown, raised, and harvested on this same land.

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.

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