This All Star package from the Gulf Coast promises a lively and soulful evening of music from the American South and Gulf Coast.
Marcia Ball is a four-time Grammy nominee, eight-time Blues Music Award winner (with four wins in the last five years for Best Piano Player, plus two recent wins for Best Contemporary Blues - Female Artist of the Year) and a Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame Inductee. Marcia also won the 2011 Living Blues Award Readers Poll for Blues Artist of the Year (Female) for the second time in three years as well as Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard) for the fourth time in the past five years. PopMatters says of her latest CD, Roadside Attractions, "Ball is the real deal: equal parts New Orleans, boogie woogie, swamp music, and Texas soul all wrapped up into one package. Her new album shows that she's also an incredible songwriter... The tracks flow into each other to create a mighty musical force. "
Slide guitar master Sonny Landreth is a guitarist's guitarist. His signature style encompasses Delta blues, Zydeco, and Southern Rock and his current CD From The Reach features such greats as Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Buffet, Vince Gill, Dr. John, and Eric Johnson.
Dobro and steel guitarist Cindy Cashdollar has recorded or performed with such major artists as Rod Stewart, Van Morrison, Ryan Adams and Bob Dylan. She's also won five Grammy Awards during her years with Asleep at the Wheel. National Public Radio listeners can catch her frequent guest appearances on Garrison Keillor's live radio program, "A Prairie Home Companion."
Grammy Award winning Zydeco artist Terrance Simien has created a unique blend of Zydeco, Roots, New Orleans Funk and Reggae flavored Afro Carribean World music. Rolling Stone raves "Simien is a Zydeco Master: his voice yearning like Sam Cooke, he delivers soul worthy of Stax greats and shows crossover class." Terrance gained film exposure in The Big Easy and with the 2009 Disney film, The Princess and The Frog, set in New Orleans, each featuring his music. Special foreign performances include trips to Cuba for the State Department in 2005, where he became the first Zydeco artist to perform in that country and to Mali, West Africa in 2006, when Carnegie Hall sent him as part of a unique distance learning program called Global Encounters, to present Creole for Kidz & The History of Zydeco.
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