Two of the finest roots music fiddle players working today – Louisiana’s Michael Doucet of BeauSoleil and Berkeley’s Tom Rigney – joined forces to
release one of the hottest Cajun music albums of recent years. With a repertoire drawing on a range of roots music styles including Cajun two-steps and waltzes, blues and New Orleans grooves, the show will feature dazzling interplay between the two fiddlers, as well as Rigney’s four-piece band, Flambeau. In addition to their instrumental prowess, Rigney and Doucet are adept at penning original songs and seeking out and refreshing songs from the Cajun and zydeco traditions. Doucet is the premiere Cajun fiddle player, beginning his tenure in the 1970s when he founded BeauSoleil. For forty years, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has taken Cajun music out of Louisiana and put it on the stages of the world. Berkeley-based Rigney has become a leading blues and roots music violinists over the past several decades. After fifteen years at the helm of the swamp-rock band The Sundogs, Rigney put together his current band, Flambeau, and has toured and recorded extensively ever since. His range as a composer runs from Cajun two-steps to blues to roots rock and roll to ballads and waltzes. His high-energy, virtuosic playing and his commanding spirited stage presence are hallmarks of Rigney’s performing style, and his performances at many North American traditional jazz festivals have brought attention to the genre.

Gino& The Lone Gunmen is a 3 piece band that performs a rockin’ mix of Original Hotrod Rockabilly and Vintage Rock’n’Roll from the 50’s and 60’s as well as Blues, Rockabilly, Classic Rock and more! Their song catalog includes original music and all the early classics, including everything from Elvis and Buddy Holly to the Cavern Club days of the Beatles and even a few of you favorites form the 70’s and 80’s! The Lone Gunmen have shared the stage with many other great bands such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Slim Jim Phantom(Stray Cats), Three Bad Jacks, Big Sandy and many more. After their first appearance at the 2012 Viva Las Vegas festival, the band has gained more and more fans from around the world!

The Clinton Davis String Band plays old time fiddle tunes and banjo songs of Appalachia and the Deep South. Clinton Davis grew up in the Ohio River Valley of northern Kentucky where his family has lived for five generations. After living in Southern California for the last decade, he has built a strong reputation for performing the music of his home with integrity and skill.No Depression called his work “a joyous and soulful restoration of one of the lost treasures of American musical tradition.”

A Night Not To Be Missed!