Les Contes De Galerie (Stories on the Porch) Louis Michot w/ special guest

"Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate. - Author: Alain Ducasse"

Join us for a special night with LOUIS MICHOT on Saturday September 10th. What seems like a million years ago at Grant Street Dancehall, Lori and I saw this young energetic musician, who turned out to be Louis Michot. As we watched, he played the fiddle with such energy I thought his arm would snap in half. As energetic as his music style, his passion for preserving our culture is equally passionate.

Excerpt from the NY Times

The Lost Bayou Ramblers, the band that Michot formed with his brother, Andre, in 1999, sings in Cajun French, in the hope of keeping the culture alive. But you can’t save Louisiana French if there’s no Louisiana. “To make a generational break in the language is also to make a break in the knowledge,” Michot said recently, behind the Broadside Theatre, in New Orleans, before a benefit concert at the Louisiana Sunshine Festival.

Since then Louis has nurtured the past, by keeping our Cajun culture live and well, as well as creating his own unique style and sound based on a traditional base.

Saturday Louis Michot will play a few songs, talk about his songs, share his relationships with them and share stories of her favorite childhood food memories which Chefs C.J Pothier and Greg Walls will recreate (price includes food).

It's a night not to be missed!

Doors open @ 6:00 PM. Show starts @ 6:45 PM

BIO LOUIS MICHOT

Louis Michot is best known as the fiddle player and lead-singer for the Grammy award

winning Lost Bayou Ramblers, but his passion for Louisiana French and local folklore

are what fuels his career as a musician. Based near Arnaudville, LA, Louis resides with

his wife and their three in the house he built himself, which was featured in the New

York Times (Music Man with a Metier, July 5, 2012).

Music has been the constant thread of Louis’ life, beginning professionally at age 14

with Les Freres Michot, and has since performed regularly with Lost Bayou

Ramblers, Michot’s Melody Makers, Soul Creole, Goldman Thibodeaux and the

Lawtell Playboys, and Poguetry in Motion feat. Spider Stacy and Cait O’Riordan.

2021 brought special challenges for Michot, from restarting his live music during

the pandemic, to doing hurricane relief work as noted in Rolling Stone (Can This

Cajun-Punk Musician Protect His Culture From Climate Change?, September 16,

2021) while raising funds to get solar generators and panels to residents of

Terrebonne Parish affected by Hurricane Ida, as written about in New Yorker

magazine (The Lost Bayou Ramblers Get Lit, January 3, 2022).

Louis was named Louisianian of the Year in 2020 along with his brother Andre, and

their band Lost Bayou Ramblers was named Entertainers of the Year by New Orleans’

Big Easy Awards in 2019. 2017 brought the Lost Bayou Ramblers’ first Grammy

award for their 8 th LP release, Kalenda, and 2019 marked the bands 20 th anniversary

along with a live album release “Asteur’ and a documentary aired internationally on

TV5 Monde, “On Va Continuer”. In 2012 Louis’ violin and vocal work was the main

feature for score of the Oscar nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild, and that

same year the band’s 6th release, “Mammoth Waltz” was named 2nd most important

Louisiana album of the 21st century by nola.com and won New Orleans’ Best of the

Beat Award.

2021 brought the release of TINY ISLAND feat. Leyla McCalla and Louis’ fiddle based

band, Michot’s Melody Makers. Following 2020’s ‘Cosmic Cajuns from Saturn’, and

their 2018 debut BLOOD MOON, the band went on to win Best Cajun Band at the Big

Easy Awards for the following three years straight.

Louis was personally invited by John Zorn to perform a 12 show residency in 2016 at

The Stone, a Lower East Side venue known as the avante-gard hotspot of NYC.

In 2018, Michot founded Nouveau Electric Records, a record label with the mission of

promoting local music within the experimental and traditional realms, with a focus on

Louisiana French. The label has since released over 20 LPs, Eps, and singles, in genres

ranging from Zydeco to avant-garde. 2019 brought Louis the chance to record and

perform with Willie Durisseau, a 101 year old fiddle player in Opelousas, Louisiana.

Louis was then given a grant by Louisiana Folklife to publish the recordings along

with photographs and an essay, the collection known as “Creole House Dance”.

Raised in Broussard and Lafayette, Louis started playing Cajun music on the stand-up

bass at age 14, replacing uncle David Michot in the world traveled group of his father

and uncles, Les Freres Michot. He then picked up the fiddle at age 19 and started the

Lost Bayou Ramblers with his brother Andre Michot. Louis took to learning his

ancestral language of French by traveling throughout French Canada, by learning from

Cajun French speakers at home in south Louisiana, and by singing the endless

repertoir of Cajun French music. Louis has recorded and performed along-side Rickie

Lee Jones, Scarlett Johansonn, Jon Batiste, Aloe Black, Donald Byrd, Spider Stacy,

Gordon Gano, and Dr. John, as well as Cajun greats D. L. Menard, Belton Richard, Vin

Bruce, Hadley Castille, and Luderin Darbonne.

Les Contes de Galerie is an ACOUSTIC SHOW , however I was beyond thrilled to find an old Lost Bayou Ramblers Performance on KEXP, one of America's premier Public Radio Venues.

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