
Rochester Cajun Zydeco Network Presents
Jesse Legé
& Bayou Brew
Saturday September 13th
@ the Harmony House in Webster NY
~~ Let’s do it up right ~~
~~ Be sure to bring a dish to pass ~~
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Jesse Legé
Honored inductee of the Cajun Music Hall of Fame
Winner of numerous Cajun French Music Association awards:
Accordion Player, Male Vocalist, Band, and Song of the Year
“Master accordion player and super vocalist, Jesse is a living legend in Cajun music. When he plays accordion, he possesses a stance of such rigor, that even a hit from a rhinoceros would leave him bolted down, unaffected.”
PINE LEAF BOYS - PERSON OF THE WEEK
"Legé's soaring voice resonates with ... piercing, yet beautiful heartache . . . [he] possesses one of the truly great voices in contemporary Cajun music. Listeners who do not experience chills hearing him sing … had better check
their pulse." DAVID SIMPSON, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
LOCATION: Harmony House, 58 East Main St, Webster, NY 14580
TIME:
- 7:15PM - Cajun dance lesson by Esther Brill
- 8:00PM to 11:00PM – Performance
COVER: TBD
INFO: (585) 727-4119
Jesse’s Links …
Jesse Legé’s website
http://www.jesselege.com/
Pine Leaf Boys – Person of the Week – Jesse Legé
http://www.pineleafboys.com/plb_of_the_week10.html
Video Clip of Jesse Legé and Bayou Brew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dneyK1vyti0
LSU Website - Jesse Legé the Southern Ramblers
http://www.lsue.edu/acadgate/music/jlege.htm
Jesse Legé – snapshot biography
Jesse Legé is one of the most admired Cajun accordionists and vocalists from Southwest Louisiana. Beginning with Cajun accordion at age 16, Jesse has been playing traditional Cajun music for over 35 years with a variety of bands in various Louisiana dancehalls. He has garnered numerous Cajun French Music Association awards, known as the "Cajun Grammys": Traditional Band of the Year, Accordion Player of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Band of the Year, and for "Memoires Dans Mon Coeur," Song of the Year. He has recorded three CDs with the Lake Charles Ramblers, the Southern Ramblers, and Live at the Isleton Crawdad Festival (Calif.) with master Creole fiddler Ed Poullard. In 1998 he was inducted into the Cajun Music Hall of Fame. Jesse has played many Cajun events in Louisiana and elsewhere in the U.S. and world: Festivals Acadiens, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and the prestigious Chicago Folk Festival, major festivals in CA and FL, and in England and Canada.
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