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The Revelers, At the End of the River – Au bout de la riviére (Independent)
Save yourself some confusion. Don’t think of the Revelers as staunch proponents of any particular genre but rather a synthesis of South Louisiana styles that is uniquely its own. On […]
If It Makes You Happy: The Revelers are never going to be a pop band
THE REVELERS: SUNDAY, APRIL 30—FAIS DO-DO STAGE, 2:50 P.M. Legend has it that the Revelers began when the ghost of C.C. Adcock appeared to drummer Glenn Fields in the […]
The Revelers, “Play the Swamp Pop Classics, Volume 2” (Independent)
The Revelers have it figured out: Drop vinyl-only, four-song EPs (Volume 2 includes a complimentary CD containing all eight tracks from both volumes) in between full-length releases to stimulate and […]
The Revelers, Get Ready (Independent)
The Revelers’ second full-length effort and first all original affair should dispel any remaining association with its previous incarnation the Red Stick Ramblers. With its swamp pop focus and Cajun-zydeco […]
The Revelers, The Revelers Play the Swamp Pop Classics Vol. I (Independent)
On this four-track, vinyl-only EP, the Revelers maneuver through a diverse set of arrangements with an atypical swamp-pop arsenal that includes accordion and fiddle. A rollicking rendition of “Let the […]
The Revelers, The Revelers (Independent)
Whaddya do when your bread-and-butter band slows down due to a crazy little thing called life? Form another one. That’s what most of the Red Stick Ramblers did by forming […]
The Dirty Rain Revelers, Live From the Porch (Independent)
When I described one of last month’s reviews as being one of the first pandemic-inspired records that had crossed my desk, I hadn’t heard the Dirty Rain Revelers latest, Live […]
Beat Cafe: David Kunian of New Orleans Jazz Museum and Matthew and Melissa DeOrazio of The Dirty Rain Revelers
MAY 27, 2022 | David Johnson, digital media editor of OffBeat, interviewed David Kunian, curator of the New Orleans Jazz Museum, and Matthew and Michelle DeOrazio of The Dirty Rain […]
The Dirty Rain Revelers, Spark (Independent)
Gently floating, half-asleep, somewhere between Mazzy Star’s So Tonight That I Might See, the Cowboy Junkies’ The Trinity Session, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand is this album, […]
50 Years and Tomorrow: Festivals Acadiens et Créoles Celebrates 50
If you haven’t heard by now, brace yourself for a shock: Festivals Acadiens et Créoles (FAeC) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Halfway to the centurion mark is astoundingly remarkable for anything, corporations, marriages, let alone a grassroots, non-commercial festival.
