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Annual "Fat Tuesday" Cajun Mardi Gras Dance with The Aux Cajunals and MORE!

  • Ashkenaz 1317 San Pablo Avenue Berkeley, CA, 94702 United States (map)

Doors at 7 PM / Zydeco/Cajun Dance Lesson at 7:30 PM / Show at 8 PM

Celebrate Fat Tuesday by dancing to Cajun and zydeco music!

Costumes, masks, and Mardi Gras beads are encouraged, or just wear your most sparkly, brightest party clothes.

TICKETS:

GA Presale: $15 - $20

GA DoS: $25

(Kids under 12 are welcome for FREE)

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Tom Rigney & Flambeau

Tom Rigney is one of the premier American Roots Music fiddle players on the planet. His band Tom Rigney and Flambeau–specializes in blazing Cajun and Zydeco two-steps, low-down Blues, funky New Orleans grooves, Boogie Woogie piano, and heartbreakingly beautiful ballads and waltzes. Much of the repertoire is composed by Rigney, but they mix in some classics from the Cajun/New Orleans songbook. Along the way you may pick up a trace of Rigney’s Irish roots, or echoes of folk music styles–it just makes the musical gumbo that much tastier.

The Aux Cajunals

The Aux Cajunals is led by fiddler Suzy Thompson, co-founder (with the late Danny Poullard) of the California Cajun Orchestra, who apprenticed in Louisiana with Cajun fiddle legend Dewey Balfa and also was mentored by Dennis McGee and Cheese Read. Suzy learned to play accordion from Danny Poullard. Agi Ban (of the Midnite Ramblers) and Karen Celia Heil (formerly of the Creole Belles) join Suzy on fiddles. Eric Thompson, another co-founder of the California Cajun Orchestra, plays guitar. He and Suzy have performed with many Cajun greats including DL Menard, Beausoleil, Marc and Ann Savoy, Ed Poullard, Jesse Lege & Joel Savoy, and David Greely. Their daughter Allegra (of the Midnite Ramblers) plays upright bass.