Medicine Show 2022

601 East Saint Mary Boulevard,Lafayette LA 70503

22 April, 2022

Description

Medicine Show 2022 presented by the UL Lafayette School of Music & Performing Arts Come and join the celebration of the flourishing of traditional music in the UL Lafayette curriculum with students and instructors in the program along with musician friends of Dr. Tommy Comeaux, including Sonny Landreth, Gary Newman, Danny Kimball, Ward Lormand, and Zachary Richard. Student ensembles will open the show, including the Angelle Aces (Cajun), Ragin' Steppers (zydeco), Vermilion Express (bluegrass), Saint Street Songsters (string band), and the Ragin' & Blues Band (R&B). An all-star band of instructors will follow, including Blake Miller, Chas Justus, Chad Huval, Gina Forsyth, Megan Constantin, and Lee Allen Zeno, joined by Jimmy Breaux on drums. Sonny Landreth and friends will close the concert. Remembrances of past performances and gatherings will be offered throughout. A reception for premium ticket holders will be held after the show. Tommy's friends first started raising funds to establish this program in his memory twenty-five years ago, when his life ended too soon in a traffic accident. With the help of a matching program from the Louisiana Board of Regents, they had raised $1M by 2008. Dr. Mark F. DeWitt was hired in 2010 as the first holder of the Dr. Tommy Comeaux Endowed Chair in Traditional Music. The program has since grown to a staff of roughly a dozen adjunct instructors, expert local musicians who offer guidance to students in the history and practice of Cajun music, zydeco, bluegrass, blues, and other roots styles.