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Acadia to Appalachia: James Leva, David Greely & Cedric Watson Live in Concert
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Cedric Watson, David Greely, James Leva
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2017
Time: 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
Advance Tickets: $10.00 Day of the Show: $12.00

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Description:
Floyd Country Store presents "Acadia to Appalachia" featuring James Leva, David Greely and Cedric Watson live in concert on Saturday, October 21, 2017.

"Acadia to Appalachia" explores the kinship between the traditional music of Southwest Louisiana and the traditional Old Time and Bluegrass music of Appalachia.

James Leva is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter whose music is deeply rooted in Appalachian tradition. He learned much of his fiddle, banjo and vocal repertoire from great traditional masters such as Tommy Jarrell and Doug Wallin.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he performed with seminal traditionally focused groups that were exploring the boundaries of Appalachian music. Bands such at Plank Road (with Al Tharp and Michael James Kott), Ace Weems and the Fat Meat Boys (with David Winston and Chad Crumm), and the Hellbenders.(with Bruce Molsky and Dave Grant) performed throughout the US and Europe and their recordings were widely influential.

Links:

• http://www.jamesleva.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/james.leva.1
• https://www.reverbnation.com/jameslevaandpurgatorymountain

David Greely, founding fiddler of the Mamou Playboys, has for years been assembling a repertoire of uncommon Cajun music. He uses old and rare tunes, new companion pieces to the old ones, and striking new melodies that meld Cajun roots with fiddle sounds he’s heard in his travels worldwide, and arranges them with novel instrumentation and rich harmonies. In solo acoustic performance, he sounds like two or three fiddles, weaving accompaniment to his vocals as if it’s someone else singing.

Presenting his concerts in English or French, he embraces all the aspects of his heritage that a fiddle and voice can reach- ancient ballads, cane field blues, yearning waltzes and fiery two steps, and melds his ancestral legacy with his own adroit compositions and stories of the rich souls who kept this music and language alive.

Link: http://davidgreely.com/

One of the brightest young talents to emerge in Cajun, Creole and Zydeco (Louisiana French) music over the last decade, Cedric Watson is a four-time Grammy-nominated fiddler, singer, accordionist and songwriter with seemingly unlimited potential.

Originally from San Felipe, TX (population 868), Cedric made his first appearance at the age of 19 at the Zydeco Jam at The Big Easy in Houston, TX. Just two years later, he moved to south Louisiana, quickly immersing himself in French music and language. Over the next several years, Cedric performed French music in 17 countries and on 7 full-length albums with various groups, including the Pine Leaf Boys, Corey Ledet, Les Amis Creole with Ed Poullard and J.B. Adams, and with his own group, Bijou Creole.

Link: http://www.cedricwatson.com

Tickets are $10.00 in advance and $12.00 the day of the show.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/james-leva-david-greely-cedric-watson-october-21-2017.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/x8Z6rgP.jpg.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/james-leva-david-greely-cedric-watson-october-21-2017 or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or call 540-745-4563.