January

Balfa Toujours - It’s Cajun Time
Friday, January 21, 2005, at 7:30 p.m. - Ciccone Theatre
Tickets: $22; $20 - students & seniors (65+); $18 - BCC

Balfa Toujours, Cajun’s Next Generation, is a brilliant young band that has been making a name for itself in the Cajun music scene of Southwestern Louisiana, and in the larger realm of all traditional music. Led by Christine Balfa, the daughter of Balfa Brothers’ fiddler Dewey Balfa, the group has created a sound that is distinctive yet filled with the essence of the tradition. The hot, syncopated melodies of the accordion intertwine with the passionate cries of the fiddle. The warm, ringing chords of the guitar lift the vocals straight into your soul. A life-loving quality, emotional yet transcendent, is the essence of Cajun music, and the Balfa rhythm’s pulse is at the heart of it.