BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, the most widely traveled and famous Cajun-French band, has launched its final tour. However absolute that sounds, the celebratory trek isn’t BeauSoleil’s last hurrah.

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Oct. 13—I suspect that if you'd told Michael Doucet, back when he decided to form the Louisiana band BeauSoleil and explore, honor and curate the future of Cajun music, that they'd be going 45 years ...

We are live with BeauSoleil, the venerable Cajun roots, folk and modernist band, looking back and ahead after fifty years. Brothers Michael and David Doucet were joined by Michael’s son Matthew, also ...

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In last year’s Wheeler Opera House performance, Louisiana’s Beausoleil played its Cajun fiddle music with few twists. But on “Gitane Cajun,” purportedly an homage to a trio of deceased Louisiana ...

The 30-year anniversary of BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet unfortunately coincided with the devastation of a large chunk of their home state, ravaged by hurricane Katrina. So the world's foremost ...

Appreciation of Cajun music comes in waves, though it's rarely the players who change, but more the public's openness to a genre which has existed for hundreds of years in one form or another. This ...

FAIRBANKS — Most bands that have been on the road for three-plus decades tend to start slowing down. Not so for BeauSoleil and Michael Doucet. In its 37th year, the Lafayette, La.-based Cajun group is ...