Lil’ Brian & The Travelers w/ A Gumbo Supper!

Report Error

Email It

Write a Review

Hours:	7:30 PM
Ages:	Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	$$ see below
Category:	Music & Concerts

We're having a party this Wednesday night at Zing - not only are we having wonderous Lil’ Brian & The Travelers but we'll be serving a rice and gumbo supper expertly and deliciously cooked up by our friends across the street at Brazzille Restaurant.

Lil’ Brian & The Travelers have developed a reputation as the most innovative and musically accomplished Zydeco band on the scene. Brilliantly drawing upon contemporary urban black sounds while remaining respectful and true to their Zydeco roots, Lil’ Brian and The Travelers have created an incredibly exciting modern form of Zydeco music that is both rhythmically and lyrically sophisticated and just plain unbelievably funky! They have dubbed their music Z-Funk.

The undisputed capitol of Lil’ Brian’s world, is the hamlet of Barrett Station, Texas—B.S.T. to those in the know. This unprepossessing, well kept, Texas crossroads, just outside Baytown and not far from H-Town (Houston), is smack dab in the middle of East Texas Zydeco country. The Creole people of this part of the country, most with strong Louisiana roots, are at least as ardent about Zydeco as their neighbors across the border in Louisiana. The clubs, festivals and radio pulse with Zydeco rhythms both traditional and new, enjoyed by young and old.

It was at Buckwheat Zydeco’s wild shows in Houston’s Catholic Church halls that the young Lil’ Brian was first spellbound by thebig piano note accordion played by the Maestro, Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural. Dural encouraged the youngster and was instrumental in launching his career. Lil’ Brian responded by absorbing Dural’s musical lessons and developing his ability to take Zydeco where it had never been before. Brian even had a picture of Buck’s accordion tattooed on his right biceps!

Lil’ Brian also benefited from exposure to his relatives, the father and son Zydeco Greats, John and Geno Delafose, whom Lil’ Brian would visit in Louisiana on summer vacations. With help from Mom and Dad, Lil’ Brian outfitted a band and began playing local gigs. A year later, at the suggestion of Dural, he sent the first of several demo tapes to Rounder Records’ Scott Billington. Longtime Buckwheat Zydeco bassist, Lee Allen Zeno, began working with the band, and went on to co-produce with Billington Lil’ Brian & The Travelers’ first two albums, Fresh (1995 Rounder) and Z-Funk (1997 Rounder).

COST

↑ top

$22 (Stu/Sen $21,Mem $15)

WEBSITE

↑ top

amazingthings.org

LOCATION

↑ top

160 Hollis Street, Framingham, MA, 01702 map
Phone: 508 405 2787