Thursday, Aug. 29 at 6:30 p.m.—BARNARD—Feast and Field summer music series continues its summer concert lineup every Thursday evening through Sept. 26 at Fable Farm, 1525 Royalton Turnpike, in Barnard. This week, it welcomes Pointe Noire, a Cajun band which finds its rhythm deeply seated in Southwest Louisiana, where many of its members have studied music.
Katie Trautz is a seasoned fiddle player, who drifted south to the Bayou after many years of playing old-time music. Chris Hollis, the Montpelier-based old-time guitar player, also found an interest in Cajun music, and together he and Trautz traveled to Louisiana to learn the musical traditions there. Helen Doyle plays bass, and grew up surrounded by many different styles of traditional music. Cannon Labrie is a long-time Cajun and Zydeco accordion player, playing with well-known New England bands Yankee Chank, Jeannie and the High Tops and Planet Zydeco. Walker Blackwell is a percussionist and fine art printmaker who has been surrounded by Cajun music his entire life and has been performing percussion in several local bands — including the Clayfoot Strutters — on and off since he was 4 years old. Christiana Athena-Blackwell is a multi-instrumentalist and music educator who founded School of Honk in Boston (a New Orleans inspired second line band/and community school serving over 100 students every week). She started singing and drumming in bands in Vermont when she was 14 years old, and continued her performing career for the past two decades in many cities including Boston, Baltimore and Los Angeles. She currently teaches music at U-32 Middle/High School in East Montpelier.
– Pointe Noir
Pointe Noir plays an uplifting combination of dance music, country songs, and Cajun tunes from Lafayette and beyond. The music series is produced and curated by BarnArts Center for the Arts.
Admission is $5-$25 on a sliding scale.
For more information and tickets, visit: feastandfield.com.
