Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM EDT

Enjoy a special Sunday Buzz Matinee with a solo performance by Louis Michot, the two-time Grammy winning singer of the Lost Bayou Boys. Featuring a special opening performance by Connecticut's own Eddie Seville. 

Louis Michot

Louis Michot, the two-time Grammy award winner, fiddle player and singer for Lost Bayou Ramblers, is celebrating the release of his debut solo album, “Rêve du Troubadour” with intimate solo performances. Alongside his progressive approach to the sonic evolution of modern folk music, Louis’ passion for Louisiana’s cultural and ecological sustainability fuel his songwriting, and his music career continues to push the boundaries of the Louisiana French music traditions. Louis’ solo performances focus on the stories behind his original music and the history behind the wealth of traditional music he pulls from. He delivers a full sonic palate of sounds between his vocals, guitar, and fiddle, and accompanies the songs with foot-stomping triggered percussive elements and effects. Louis draws listeners in for an intimate experience that gives insight into the songs and sounds that have characterized his multi-decade trajectory of bringing Louisiana French music to an international stage

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, and sustainability in the fastest disappearing landmass in the world are what fuels his career as a musician. With two Grammy awards, 6 film scores and over 20 LPs under his belt, his music career continues to push the boundaries of the Louisiana French music traditions.

Rêve du Troubadour, the first solo album from Louis Michot, was released on September 22, 2023. Special guests on these recordings include Nigerien Tuareg guitar wizard Bombino, and critically acclaimed singer / cellist Leyla McCalla among others. Known as a fiddle player, Michot primarily performed on guitar, bass, T’fer (triangle), samplers, percussions, and accordion. Some of finished tracks feature him playing every part, while others find him backed with bassist where Bryan Webre and drummer Kirkland Middleton of the Ramblers and Louis’ other regular band, Michot’s Melody Makers as well as guests like Bombino, McCalla, Quintron, guitarist Langhorn Slim, Shardé Thomas with and without her Rising Stars Drum and Fife group, Grammy-nominated accordion player Corey Ledet, and Dickie Landry on sax. Kirkland Middleton of the Ramblers engineered and mixed the album at Nina Highway Studios in Arnaudville, Louisiana with various musicians building on basic tracks Louis had recorded at his home, houseboat studio. The album’s title, “Rêve du Troubadour” -- “The Troubadour’s Dream” in English -- refers to the manner in which Michot pulls his music from dreams into daylight, then fills it with storytelling. Though Michot has published over 100 songs, he feels that Rêve du Troubadour is his first cohesive collection of writing as these songs tell their stories poetic depth and utilize words peculiar to Louisiana French which seldom appear in musical compositions.

2024 started off with a second Grammy win for Lost Bayou Ramblers’ collaboration with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra on “Live: Orpheum Theater NOLA” and 6 nominations for Louis Michot in New Orleans’ Best of the Beat Awards, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, plus Song of the Year for “Boscoyo Fleaux”. The year started with Louis serving as the king of the Krewe of Joan of Arc, to ring in the Mardi Gras season, and immediately rolled into the second year of Louis Michot touring under his name, as a trio featuring Evan Ceaser on drums and Bryan Webre on bass, synths, and samples.

Louis’ solo trajectory started while tracking his original songs in 2022, starting the recordings in his dry-docked house boat named “Sister Ray”, and completing the tracking at Mark Bingham’s Piety Studio, the album being engineered and mixed by Kirkland Middleton. 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).

Along with his brother, Andre, Louis was named Louisianian of the Year in 2020, 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 20th 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.

Eddie Seville

Eddie Seville is an American songwriter with songs released on Island / Atlantic and Universal Records, as well as music aired on the top three US television networks and HBO.

As a solo artist, a multi- instrumentalist and an occasional bandleader, he’s been collecting grins, winks and nods in theaters, roadhouses and folk gatherings around the continental US, Europe and Canada.

Country Music People calls him “a natural storyteller with powerful vocals and sharp lyrics”

Indie Strong said “Eddie Seville is the real thing in a sea of artists trying to act like the real thing”

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