Blues & Creole Night feat. Rev. Robert Jones, Cedric Watson, Mark Palms, and special guests

Name: Blues & Creole Night feat. Rev. Robert Jones, Cedric Watson, Mark Palms, and special guests
Start: 2025-02-24T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 316 S Main St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104

Schedule

Mon, 24 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

316 S Main St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104 | Ann Arbor, MI

One of the brightest young talents to emerge in Cajun, Creole and Zydeco music over the last decade, Cedric Watson is a four-time Grammy-nominated fiddler, singer, accordionist & songwriter with seemingly unlimited potential. Originally from San Felipe, TX (population 868), Cedric made his first appearance at the age of 19 at the Zydeco Jam at The Big Easy in Houston, TX. Just two years later, he moved to south Louisiana, quickly immersing himself in French music and language. Cedric has performed French music in 17 countries and on 7 full-length albums with various groups, including the Pine Leaf Boys, Corey Ledet, Les Amis Creole with Ed Poullard and J.B. Adams, and with his own group, Bijou Creole. Cedric’s music resurrects the ancient sounds of the French and Spanish contra dance and bourré alongside the spiritual rhythms of the Congo tribes of West Africa, who were sold as slaves in the Caribbean and Louisiana by the French and Spanish.
Rev. Robert Jones, Sr. has been a professional musician for more than forty years. The legendary blues man, Willie Dixon encouraged him to bring his music into schools over 35 years ago, and The National Blues Foundation recognized his work as a leading blues educator in 2007. An award-winning multi-instrumentalist, he is accomplished on guitar, harmonica, mandolin, banjo, fiddle and ukulele. Robert is the former host of the award-winning radio programs “Blues from the Lowlands” and “Deep River” broadcast on Detroit Public Radio’s WDET-FM Detroit. He has taught music history courses at Wayne State University in Detroit, and he serves as a member of the affiliate faculty at Boston’s Berklee School of Music.

Mark Palms is mostly self-taught; a musician who chased the heritage of traditional music after college and studied knee-to-knee with old-time, bluegrass and Cajun musicians. Mark also managed to gather a number of field recordings along the way from Louisiana to West Africa, feeding his appetite and appreciation for American Cajun & Zydeco music.