Summer Concert: Cedric Watson
One of the brightest young talents to emerge in Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco (Louisiana French) music over the last decade, Cedric Watson is a four-time Grammy-nominated fiddler, singer, accordionist and songwriter. Originally from San Felipe, Texas (population 868), Watson made his first appearance at the age of nineteen at the Zydeco Jam at the Big Easy in Houston, Texas. Over the next several years, Watson performed French music in seventeen countries and on seven full-length albums with various groups. Cedric Watson and Bijou Creole resurrect 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 Carribean and Louisiana by the French and Spanish. Watson's songs channel his diverse ancestry (African, French, Native American and Spanish) to create his own brand of sounds.
Free.
Bring a picnic and your own seating.
Inclement weather moves the event to the Manton Research Center auditorium.
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