Lafayette, Louisiana-based sextet BeauSoleil (often billed as BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet) take their name from Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil, a key figure in the resistance movement against the forced Expulsion of the Acadians from eastern Canada, who eventually led the first group of 193 Acadian exiles to southern Louisiana.
Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet is withput question the best known proponent of Cajun music in this solar system, chiefly through their ability, highlighted in almost two dozenalbums and world tours, to embrace tradition even as they explore futuristic visions of the music. (Rick Koster, Louisiana Music p. 178)
Interesting. File under: Back on the Bayou
An introduction
Discography: Albums 1976-93 1994-Present; Compilations
In the Music Library:
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