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Tab Benoit w/ Gumbo Boogie – $20/25 or $35 for both days
January 21, 2017 @ 8:00 pm
$20 – $25
8pm $20/25 or $35 for both days
Tab Benoit (BLUES) is a Cajun man who’s definitely got the blues. Born November 17, 1967, he grew up in Houma, Louisiana. A guitar player since his teenage years, he hung out at the Blues Box, a ramshackle music club and cultural center in nearby Baton Rouge run by guitarist Tabby Thomas. Playing guitar alongside Thomas, Raful Neal, Henry Gray and other high-profile regulars at the club, Benoit learned the blues first-hand from a faculty of living blues legends. The nightly impromptu gigs were enough to inspire Benoit to assemble his own band – a stripped down bass-and-drums unit propelled by his solid guitar skills and leathery, Cajun-spiced vocal attack.
Gumbo Boogie (ZYDECO/ROCK)
Emerging in 1995 as a primarily acoustic jug band with a Louisiana flavor, Gumbo Boogie serves up a tasty musical stew with good time, street party, New Orleans-style dance music, strong on Zydeco, adding swampy rock tunes and classic rockers to keep the party moving.