Zydeco Flames
When:
Wed, July 8, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Where:
Stafford Park
King St. and Hopkins Ave.
Redwood City, CA
Lat/Lon: 37.482, -122.247
What:
The Bay Area’s Zydeco Flames have issued five CDs of hot zydeco dance music and have shared stages with most of the greats of the style at dances and festivals up and down the West Coast. Fifteen years ago accordionist Bruce Gordon teamed up with singer-rubboard player Lloyd Meadows to play at parties, including the premiere of the documentary film on Cajun and zydeco music, "J’ai ete au Bal." Soon they expanded to a full band carrying on in the tradition of Clifton Chenier, Buckwheat Zydeco and Queen Ida, with electric guitarist Frank Bohan, bassist-singer Timm Walker, and drummer William Allums Jr.