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On April 22nd, Smithsonian Folkways released From Now On, the latest solo CD by Michael Doucet, Grammy winning leader and founding member of BeauSoleil. Featuring Doucet on fiddle, octave violin, guitar and accordion, From Now On is an engaging musical portrait of Southern Louisiana performed by one of Cajun music's most esteemed figures. A variety of styles are represented on the set, from a Creole interpretation of Allen Toussaint's "Everthing I Do Gonna Be Funky", to the traditional songs of legends Denis McGee and Canray Fontenot, songs Doucet learned from the masters themselves. Doucet's contributions to the preservation of Cajun heritage have earned him the distinction of both The National Heritage Fellowship, awarded by The National Endowment for the Arts in 2005, as well as the honor of being named one of the first recipients of the United States Artists Fellowship Grant in 2007. Internationally acclaimed as the preeminent Cajun ensemble, Doucet and BeauSoleil will be touring throughout the Spring and Summer of 2008, and beyond....see tour dates >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Michael and David Doucet of BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet are prominently featured in the new album, A New Orleans Visit: Before Katrina (Arhoolie Records). The album’s 18 tracks consist of live recordings taken from documentary film footage shot in New Orleans in April 2005 for a film about Arhoolie Records. Michael and David Doucet appear together on 9 of the 18 tracks on the album, including spontaneous performances as a duo and with clarinetist Sammy Rimington, singer/bass drummer Lionel Batiste Sr. and guitarist Lars Edgran. Michael Doucet also accompanies Sammy Rimington and “Sunpie” Barnes on several additional tracks. BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet will be touring extensively throughout the U.S. in 2008 ..see tour dates >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
This past weekend (February 23), legendary blues pianist and singer Marcia Ball and the eclectic and electric Cajuns, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, appeared on A Prairie Home Companion. Hosted by Garrison Keillor, the program is heard by more than 4 million listeners on some 580 public radio stations on America One and the Armed Forces Networks in Europe and the Far East. Marcia performed songs from her much anticipated new album “Peace, Love & BBQ,” in stores on April 8. BeauSoleil has a long relationship with the show and are among the most frequently featured guests. Listen to Marcia and BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet’s A Prairie Home Companion appearance >> Marcia will be touring extensively throughout the U.S. this year...see tour dates >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Rosebud artists Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet were honored at Offbeat Magazine's 2007 Best of the Beat Awards in New Orleans on January 12th. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue took home the award for Best R&B/Funk Band or Performer. Trombone Shorty took home his second consecutive award for Band or Performer of the Year. BeauSoleil was once again awarded Best Cajun Band or Performer making this their record 12th win. Offbeat Magazine Awards celebrates Louisiana music and is determined by readers in an online poll. The Best of the Beat Awards Results >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Michael Doucet of BeauSoleil was recently awarded a 2007 grant from United States Artists, a foundation dedicated to nurture, support and strengthen America's finest living artists. National leaders in business, the academic world and the arts founded United States Artists in 2005. Recipients are drawn from the world of music, literature, film, dance and the visual arts and include such distinguished artists as Don Byron, Bill T Jones, Meredith Monk, Jason Moran and Rosebud artist Bill Frisell (2006). In addition to this honor, Mr. Doucet is also the recipient of a 2005 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. Find more information on Michael, the award and the foundation at: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Rosebud artists were honored once again at offBeat Magazine's Best Of The Beat Awards in New Orleans on January 25, 2007. BeauSoleil continued their dominance in the Best Cajun Band category and also picked up Best Cajun Album for their recent CD BeauSoleil: Live in Louisiana (Way Down in Louisiana). As in past years, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band ruled the Best Brass Band Album category, picking up an award for their latest CD on Shout Factory, What's Going On. The Best of the Beat Awards are chosen by New Orleans music fans and offBeat.com and offBeat Weekly readers from around the world. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet celebrates their 30th Anniversary with the release of Beausoleil: Live in Louisiana. Recorded during a pair of anniversary shows on January 11 and 12 in Louisiana, the album features songs from across the Cajun and Creole cultural spectrum and is dedicated to the people of Louisiana. Two tracks in particular, "L'Ouragon (The Hurricane)" and "Conja (New Orleans 1786)" pay homage to New Orleans. Beausoleil: Live in Louisiana is available at select retailers or online at www.waydowninlouisiana.com. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Friday, March 17th • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Michael Doucet receives 2005 NEA National Heritage Fellowship
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This DVD, BeauSoleil’s first,captures the band’s electrifying performance at the 2002 JazzFest and is a must-own for fans of Cajun and roots music. More about Live From The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at ShoutFactory.com >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Rosebud Agency Artists Receive / Collaborators in 8 Grammy Nominations
The Grammy Awards will be held on February 15, 2005. more info at Grammy.com >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • BeauSoleil Featured on "Christmas Gumbo" Holiday CD!
ChristmasGumboCD.com >> BeauSoleil makes Vanguard Records debut with Gitane Cajun, their first studio album since 1999
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More about DANCING TO NEW ORLEANS at Docurama.com >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, BeauSoleil, and Ann Savoy Featured On Bravo TV Special
BRAVO Event & Special: Dancing To New Orleans >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • New Orleans' Offbeat Magazine's Best Of The Beat Awards Honor BeauSoleil, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Ann Savoy of Savoy Doucet Cajun Band
Offbeat Best Of The Beat Awards Winners >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • BeauSoleil's Best From Rhino Out February 11
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WAMU:Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi (aired on March 16, 2001) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • BeauSoleil 25th Anniversary CD Scores Billboard Rave Spotlight Review
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Five Rosebud Artists Garner Grammy Nominations
Charlie Musselwhite and Ruth Brown each scored their second nominations in the Contemporary and Traditional Blues Categories respectively. Charlie's nomination comes for his Continental Drifter on Pointblank / Virgin while Ruth Brown's honors are for her latest, A Good Day For The Blues, on Bullseye / Rounder. Robert Cray notched his 11th Grammy nomination for his acclaimed Rykodisc debut, Take Your Shoes Off. This marks his eighth consecutive album to be nominated for a Grammy with four wins to date. Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet scored a nomination in the Contemporary Folk category for their latest on Rhino / Forward, Cajunization. This is BeauSoleil's 8th Grammy nomination - their, L'Amour Ou La Folie, won the Grammy for Traditional Folk in 1998. Luther Allison, a Rosebud artist until his untimely passing, was nominated in the Contemporary Blues Category for his posthumous release, Live In Chicago, on Alligator Records. In an earlier announcement, John Lee Hooker was chosen to be honored with the Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • BeauSoleil Scores Billboard Cover Story, New CD March 16
Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet - Now Nine time winners for Best Cajun Band in New Orleans' Big Easy Awards
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BeauSoleil is also scheduled to perform along with Mary Chapin Carpenter for the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXI (Sunday, January 26), which will be hosted by New Orleans in the group's home state of Louisiana. After the game, the gang heads north to the frozen tundra for a taping of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. The nationally-syndicated radio program features a Beausoleil performance for its February 1st airing. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • |
Michael Doucet Solo CD From Now On released by Smithsonian Folkways
BeauSoleil's Michael and David Doucet Featured On New CD, A New Orleans Visit: Before Katrina
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet and Marcia Ball Featured Guests on A Prairie Home Companion
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and BeauSoleil Honored at Offbeat Awards
Michael Doucet Awarded United States Artists Grant
BeauSoleil and Dirty Dozen are repeat winners at Best of The Beat Awards
Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet Celebrates their 30th Anniversary With The Release of "Beausoleil: Live in Louisiana"
BeauSoleil founder, Michael Doucet, is one of twelve artists who have been awarded the prestigious 
For the 10th time in the 18 year history of 
Once again, Rosebud artists were honored at 
(from ShoutFactory.com) ... 30 years into his career, BeauSoleil’s Michael Doucet is Cajun music to most people. The fiddler, singer and songwriter plays dozens of gigs with BeauSoleil every year, gets massive exposure on NPR - including a long-running relationship with A Prairie Home Companion - and has won a GRAMMY for Best Traditional Folk Album. His band, which mixes traditional Cajun music with folk-rock, zydeco, New Orleans jazz, Tex-Mex, country and blues, is just as accomplished. Despite their success as an album act, they are truly in their element on stage. And there’s no better way to experience them live than at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Rosebud artists have once again scored big in the just announced 
Grammy winners and renowned Cajun music masters, BeauSoleil, contribute the song, "Papa St. Nick", to the holiday CD release, 
On September 14, BeauSoleil, one of the best known and most highly respected Cajun bands in the world, made their Vanguard Records debut with the release of Gitane Cajun. Produced by Michael Doucet, David Doucet and David Egan, 
Whether you're a long-time aficionado or a recent convert, DANCING TO NEW ORLEANS will give you a great appreciation for the amazing gumbo that is the music of Louisiana. Jam-packed with live performance footage by 
BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet took the honors as Best Cajun Cajun Band - an honor that is bestowed upon them basically every year. If you want to see the Best Cajun Band there is - it's BeauSoleil. 
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet will release a decade's worth of favorites from Rhino Entertainment entitled ENCORE, ENCORE!! THE BEST OF BEAUSOLEIL (1991-2001) on February 11. The package features 19 songs and 75 minutes of great music from America's premier Cajun band, including three songs from the Grammy-winning album 
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet were nominated for Cajun Band of the year in 2002 Big Easy Entertainment Awards hosted by Gambit Weekly. BeauSoleil has won the category 9 times before and rules that don't allow anyone to win more than five consecutive times have provided the rare opportunities for other bands to win the award. The awards will be held Monday, April 22 at the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Riverside New Orleans Hotel.
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet won two "Best of the Beat" Awards sponsored by the popular New Orleans music weekly Offbeat. Recognizing the best of Louisiana music, the awards for "Best Cajun Band" and "Best Cajun Album" (for their 2001 25th Anniversary release Looking Back Tomorrow) were given to the band at Offbeat's 7th Annual Awards ceremony in January.
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet have been nominated in the Traditional Folk category for their Looking Back Tomorrow: BeauSoleil Live! CD. This is the group's 9th nomination; their L'Amour Ou La Folie CD won the Grammy for Traditional Folk in 1998.
BeauSoleil's Spring 2001 Anniversary tour was a major success with BeauSoleil being joined by several of their friends, Cindy Cashdollar, Carl Landry, Sonny Landreth, Darol Anger, Daniel Thonon, and Peter Ostruoshko for the celebration. The 25th Anniversary celebration continues with pedal steel player Cindy Cashdollar joining the band on many remaining concert and festival dates throughout 2001. Please see tour dates for upcoming shows. For buyers, we are always up for creating similar packages so feel free to contact us to discuss the possibilities. Thanks to all for a great tour.
...For more than twenty-five years, BeauSoleil has been proving that Cajun music is as spicy as Cajun food. Bandmembers join Kojo for a foot-stomping live performance and an exploration of the complex roots of Louisana swamp music.
BeauSoleil's new CD, Looking Back Tomorrow: BeauSoleil Live, scores a rave Spotlight review in the Jan 27 issue of Billboard Magazine. The CD, which marks the band's 25th anniversary, was recorded live at Wolf Trap. Among the accolades was the final line "This CD is an hour in the Southern part of heaven." The band will tour throughout the year promoting the CD and the band's anniversary with special guests on many of the dates.
Grammy Award Winners, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, will release Looking Back Tomorrow: BeauSoleil Live! on January 16. The CD celebrates the band's 25th anniversary of bringing Cajun music to the world. Recorded live at The Barns At Wolf Trap, the CD also celebrates a return to the first venue outside Louisiana to present the band when, in 1976, they performed at the National Folk Festival.
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet was featured on the cover of Billboard's February 27 issue in a Jim Bessman story about their upcoming Rhino CD, Cajunization. Cajunization is in stores March 16 and, according to Bessman, features the band broadening their horizons with tastes of Cuban, blues, Hawaiian and even surf music while still never straying too far from their source. Jerry Douglas and Sonny Landreth guest on the CD.
BeauSoleil's L'Amour Ou La Folie was profiled in People as "Louisiana'a hottest export since Tabasco". In the meantime, the group came home winners again in New Orleans' Big Easy Awards for Best Cajun Group. This was BeauSoleil's eighth win in ten years - why only eight? -rules prevent any artist from winning the same award five years in a row!
The six-time Grammy-nominated group releases L'Amour ou la Folie (loosely translated as "Love or Folly") on the Rhino label on January 14. Featuring guest artists (and old friends) Richard Thompson and New Orleans clarinetist Dr. Michael White, the album showcases the group's incomparable Cajun/Creole sound on both traditional and Beausoleil original songs.