Two of the finest roots music fiddle players on the planet—Michael Doucet and Tom Rigney—are joining forces for a series of live performances in Northern California. Backed by Rigney’s hot band, Flambeau, the shows will feature material from their latest CD, “Roll On”, which spent ten weeks on the Roots Music Report’s World Album Chart, climbing all the way to Number 1 and staying there for several weeks. The title track, “Roll On” (featuring special guest Marcia Ball on piano) hit Number 1 on the RMR World Singles Chart the week of December 10, 2022, and stayed in the top ten for almost more than two months.
“Roll On” is a follow-up to Doucet and Rigney’s critically acclaimed, “Cajun Fandango”. That disc received a Best of the Beat nomination as Best Cajun Album of 2016, and was named one of the fifty best Louisiana albums of 2016 by Offbeat Magazine. “Roll On” features a wide range of Root Music styles and dazzling interplay between the two fiddles. Special guests on the album include Marcia Ball, Jon Cleary, Anthony Paule, and Chad Huval, among others.
Michael Doucet is the two time Grammy-winning fiddler and leader of the Cajun band BeauSoleil. He has been touring the world and recording with his band for almost fifty years.
Tom Rigney is the longtime leader of his hot band, Tom Rigney and Flambeau.
Rigney and Doucet, friends for several decades, began performing and recording together in 2014 and the results have been incendiary. The spontaneous, virtuosic, high-energy interplay between these two veteran musicians is guaranteed to raise your pulse rate, and Rigney’s band, Flambeau, generates enough excitement to lift a crowd to its feet.
The music will be an exciting mix of Cajun, Blues, and New Orleans grooves, both original and traditional. Come out and see these two American Roots masters in concert TOGETHER!
There are two kinds of tickets for sale for this show. Premium Seating is reserved seating in the front of the room. Standing/Dancing tickets are open floor tickets. For this ticket there is some seating along the edge of the room and a few tables and chairs in the back which are available on a first come first served basis.
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