Yankee Chank: Vermont Music Cajun Style at the Music Box Saturday, March 5th at 7:30 PM
All tickets $10. Kids free!

Yankee Chank is a group of Vermont musicians who perform the traditional dance music of southwest Louisiana. A casual listener may wonder why a Vermont band is playing Cajun music, but we should remember that the folk music of French-speaking Quebec inspired its Cajun cousin to the south. Drawn together by a shared passion for Cajun and Zydeco music, the band has been performing in a variety of venues since 1996. Its performances offer an immersion into this marvelous unique music using fiddle, accordion, guitar and bass. Individually and as a group, they have learned from and performed with many of the most influential Cajun musicians in Louisiana...... Dewey Balfa, Conray Fontenot, Marc and Ann Savoy, Michael Doucet and BeauSoleil, Geno Delafose, and others.
The group is an immersion in Cajun music, featuring fiddle, accordion, guitar, bass and percussion, specializing in traditional Cajun French two-steps and waltzes as it continues to be played in the rural dance halls and honky tonks of Louisiana, with some Zydeco thrown in for extra spice. The group includes Bob Naess (fiddle), Cannon Labrie (accordion), Jim Burns (guitar), Mark Sustic (bass) and June Drucker (drums).
Check them out at https://www.facebook.com/yankeechank. More about the Music Box at www.themusicboxvt.org or 586-7533.

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