Zydeco star Corey Ledet will be performing Friday, January 15 at 8 p.m. CST, preceding Michot’s Melody Makers featuring singer/songwriter/cellist Leyla McCalla. This will be a livestreamed event, live from New Orleans’ d.b.a.

Ledet will provide keyboards, drums and bass on accordion simultaneously, performing solo. This is a celebration of release of the self-titled album Corey Ledet Zydeco, this Zydeco star’s 14th album since releasing his full- length debut in 2004, 3 Years 2 Late. His 2012 release Nothin’ But The Best, was nominated for a Grammy in 2013. Corey Ledet Zydeco is being released by Arnaudville, Louisiana’s Nouveau Electric Records January 15, 2021 on CD, digital download and via streaming platforms.

Corey Ledet Zydeco pays homage to Ledet’s family and musical heritage which are inextricably combined, as detailed in this month’s story by Dan Willging. His great-grandfather, Gabriel Ledet, played professionally with the colorful early Jazz legend Bunk Johnson as an upright bassist. Grandfather, Buchanan played drums with Clifton Chenier and Rockin’ Dopsie, as Zydeco’s first drummer and invented the twice-pumped bass drumming pattern called “double clutching” that’s been an integral part of the genre ever since. Numerous members of this extended French speaking Creole family followed in their footsteps, playing professionally and non-professionally in the decades that followed. Corey’s rise to Zydeco royalty in the 21st century was a fait accompli. Ledet told Willging, “[I’m] just proud to be from such a talented, musical family. We are all in different styles of music, not just one. We have a member in just about every style of music you can think of. It’s crazy.”

Tickets for this livestream performance are available here.