The BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet Concert held August 14 was outstanding!!
A crowd of over a hundred people from Seldovia and beyond (even 25 elderhostel folks from Fairbanks) gathered on an unusual Tuesday evening in our "school commons-gone cajun" for rousing music, dancing and carrying on. Maybe this was the biggest crowd we've had since the festival!!! Big kids and little kids danced their feet sore and shook their "bayous" in the one small corner left in the crowded, "standing room-only, there's no room to be lonely" venue.
It was all fun with such great Lousianna Cajun music played by: Michael Doucet on fiddle and vocals,David Doucet, guitar and vocals, Jimmy Breaux, accordian, Billy Ware,percussion,(and that includes the francois!)
Tommy Alisi, drums and Mitch Reed ,base fiddle and banjo, and Bill Bennett sound engineer.
Special thanks goes out to Jerry and Suzie Stranik, who flew and drove and cooked and orchestrated much of the event, to our housing sponsors, Dancing Eagles, Bridge Keeper's Bed and Breakfast, the Seldovia Rowing Club Bed and Breakfast, to our set up crew: Susan Mumma, Suzie Stranik, Jerry Stranik, Mary and Mike Webber, Andy Christolo, Jim Standifer, Walt Sonin, Sachiko Scott and take down crew, including many of the same and including Bob Moser and of course, Renee Pupura and the SBE school. Thanks to our publicity team,Mary Webber, Mary Glover, Susan Zerwick and Carole Myers( Tree Tops Lodge) and to Darlene Crawford for taking the gate. Thanks for all the strong coffee Sarah Nichols, and John Fenski. Thanks to Carl Stoltz at Bay Excursions for bringing the band into Seldovia so late in the day...and Smokey Bay Air and Mike Hayes and the Alaskan Airman's Association for your help as well. You are all great!!!!!!
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