Tee Fee Swamp Boogie

One of Northern California’s main Cajun/Zydeco bands over the past decade, the women-led Tee Fee Swamp Boogie has a reputation for playing infectious, happy swamp boogie and blues dance music that mixes as much highly charged electric blues as Cajun roots into its shows, and tops it off with rich vocal harmonies. The East Bay’s major outdoor concert producer Russ Jennings explains, “Their music is just hip enough, and just traditional enough, to keep the gray hairs and the green hairs up and dancing all night long.”

The quintet features singer-fiddler-accordionist Annie Marie Byrd-Howard, bassist-singer Linda Schmidt, rubboard player and singer Maureen Coyle, drummer-singer Kelvin Dixon, and guitarist Kevin Suto. The high-energy band began at a Labor Day picnic in 1992 when Byrd-Howard and Schmidt decided to pool talents to create a group that brought together zydeco, Cajun, and blues from Louisiana, Texas, California, and even the Caribbean. The name Tee Fee comes from the Louisiana French “petite filles,” or sweethearts. They have recorded and released four CDs and a fifth is in the planning stage.

Show starts at 8:30pm. There's a pre-show Cajun/Zydeco dance lesson with Cheryl McBride at 8pm. Tickets are $10.