Special Thanks

AARP Prime Time Radio is the distributor for Zydeco Nation. Fiscal sponsorship is provided by Deep Springs College and the International Documentary Association. This project was made possible with support from Cal Humanities, an independent non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org.

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Listen on the Cape

March 9, 2013

Friends in Cape Cod: our documentary will air tomorrow (Sunday, March 10)  just after 7 p.m. on the community radio station WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown, which has a second transmitter at WFMR 91.3 FM in Orleans. It will be broadcast by Sam Holmstock on his show "The Gulf Coast and Beyond." If you're not near the Cape, listen online here.

In New Orleans, Zydeco Nation meets The Kitchen Sink

March 26, 2012
One of our favorite radio stations, WWOZ 90.7 FM in New Orleans, will broadcast Zydeco Nation tomorrow, March 27, at 10 p.m. Central Time. The documentary will air on David Kunian's show The Kitchen Sink. Having Kunian host our program is a special treat. As we explained when he broadcast our earlier documentary Still Singing the Blues: David Kunian himself has produced some highly acclaimed documentaries about New Orleans artists. They include Do You Know How to Pony: the Story of Chris Kenner; The Things...
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Roots of Zydeco

February 27, 2012
Many people who have listened to Zydeco Nation have expressed interest in learning more about the deep roots of zydeco. Here, then, is a lovely documentary by Nicholas Spitzer, Zydeco: Creole Music and Culture in Rural Louisiana. http://www.folkstreams.net/film,181 Nicholas Spitzer is a folklorist who has spent a large part of his life documenting the vernacular music cultures of the United States, with an emphasis on Louisiana. He is the host and producer of American Routes, and a professor of anthropology and American Studies at Tulane...
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Giving it back to kids

February 26, 2012
At the 23 Club last week, we met two enthusiastic representatives of the Performing Stars of Marin, a Bay Area organization dedicated to providing "professional training in dance, music, social skills and various enrichment opportunities to children who are underserved due to economic, cultural or social barriers." Although Marin County, north of San Francisco, has a reputation for wealth and groovitude, in its midst is Marin City, a community built for shipyard workers, which today remains tight-knit even as it struggles with poverty and crime....
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Mardi Gras in Berkeley

February 25, 2012

Mardi Gras at Ashkenaz. Photo courtesy of Julia Scott-Jackson.

Thanks to Julia Scott-Jackson (right) for this photo from Mardi Gras night at Askkenaz Music & Community Dance Center in Berkeley. In the center is Charles Barnes, who was born in Louisiana and later moved to California. On the left is Theresa Fross. Playing were the Tri Tip Trio—whose music is "based on Clifton and Cleveland Chenier’s early zydeco/blues dance hall sounds"—and The Aux Cajunals, who focus on "the old-time acoustic sounds...
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