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2015 Sebastopol Cajun Zydeco Festival • September 12, 2015

Welcome to our Festival of Great Food, Music, Fun & Goodwill Dear Cajun Zydeco Festival guests Thank you for attending this year’s festival. I know you will have a great time. We have premier musicians and fabulous food. The dancing is fun and there are lessons while the next band is setting up so everyone is able to get out on the floor. People come from all over to have a good time and it adds to the enjoyment to know that the proceeds benefit our communities both local and international. Bring your friends and let’s have a great party! Mikel Cook President, Rotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise

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Real cajun, real zydeco — really good music and times

Curley Taylor

Jimmy Breaux

Paul L’il Buck Sinegal Paul “Lil’ Buck” Sinegal is a true Louisiana guitarist who has played with legends Clifton Chenier, Buckwheat Zydeco and Rockin’ Dopsie. Allen Toussaint calls Paul “Lil’ Buck” Sinegal the “Gentle Giant of Guitar.” Lil’ Buck was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2012. Sinegal has played Jazz Fest every year since the 1970s. Although not a household name, Sinegal has reigned as the guitarist of choice for dozens of zydeco bands. Sinegal is called the “Master of the Stratocaster,” and is from from Lafayette, Louisiana. His career has spanned more than five decades, with over 300 recordings. Sinegal is a true Louisiana guitarist in that he’s played in several styles. Best known as the world’s finest Zydeco guitarist, Swamp Pop Specialist, and blues professional. Despite his travels and recordings, Sinegal says his best times are at the “Practice House,” his childhood home on St. Charles Street, a spot to rehearse and barbecue and drink a few. The porch offers a view of his parents’ and grandmother’s graves in the cemetery across the street. The house is lined with guitars, records and music that won’t leave him alone. “When it comes to blues, I have to get the guitars out of my face,” Sinegal says. “Because if I grab one, it’s going to be all day and all night.”

Jimmy Breaux is acknowledged to be one of the best Cajun accordionists of the modern era. The accordion player for the Grammy Awardwinning group Beausoleil, Breaux is another Louisiana performer who comes from a musical dynasty. Among his musical relatives are his father Preston Breaux, grandfather Amédé Breaux, his brother Pat Breaux, his great grandfather Auguste Breaux, and his great-aunt Cleoma Breaux. With his button accordion, Jimmy Breaux is a standout in the band. While his persona is very low-key, his playing is hot. The only parts of his body that seem to move are his fingers and they go at lightning speed. Jimmy Breaux has performed at the Sebastopl Zydeco./ Cajun Fesitval in the past in 2013 and returns this year with his veteran traveling band of musicians. As a member of Beaausoleil, fiddler/leader Michael Doucet, cannot say enough good things about his main man on the squeezebox. “He makes it all sound so effortless and yet his music is complex and innovative, while still holding to the traditions of his cultural heritage,” said Doucet. His first solo effort, Un 'Tit Peu Plus Cajun, was recorded in 1991 and featured Beausoleil colleagues Michael Doucet and his brother David Doucet. The recording is mainly a collection of traditional tunes, such as “Creole Stomp” and “La Valse de Meche,” with several cuts by musicians of more recent vintage. The common denominator is that all songs are meant for dancing.

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Curley Taylor was born and raised in Louisiana. At the age of 16 he started playing drums in his father’s band (Jude Taylor & His Burning Flames.) By the age of 25, Curley was playing drums for some of Louisiana’s finest musicians, including Steve Riley, C C Adcock, “L’il Buck” Senegal and Wayne “Blue” Burns. He started playing on the road with CJ Chenier and found an interest in playing accordion and soon was playing the instrument in professional gigs. He later played with Geno Delafose, a Sebastopol Cajun veteran. Curley’s first CD “Country Boy” was recently released with his current band, Zydeco Trouble.

Mark St. Mary Mark St. Mary lives in Alameda and calls himself the Delta King, a title he received at the Isleton Crawdad Festival. He plays a bluesy zydeco style influenced by accordionist Clifton Chenier. Depending on the venue, he might play pure zydeco, or he might “cut loose,” throwing in “a little R&B, jump, and a little down-and-dirty belly rubbing.” Mark St. Mary’s family came to the Bay Area around 1960 in search of “better money” and greater freedom. Most of the St. Mary family worked in construction, but they were more famous as performers of Creole music.

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Sebastopol Rotarians reach across the community and around the globe The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise is part of Rotary International, the largest business service organization in the world. The essence of Rotary International is to “think globally, act locally.” Rotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise members, consisting of local business owners and professionals, focus their attention on projects that benefit West County schools, public agencies and non-profit organizations. But in addition to the local community, Rotarians expand their horizon and reach around the globe for service projects to improve the health and welfare of many third world countries. Fund raisers such as the Cajun/Zydeco Festival supports many local and international efforts. The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise has raised over $300,000 through many years of fund raising events. A few of the more recent beneficiaries of the funds include:

• Pine Crest School Playground Improvement • El Molino High School Programs: Culinary arts, photo department, woodshop department • Analy High School Programs: Speech and debate team, English department, Project graduation, Analy Band, Portable Stage • Occidental Volunteer Fire Department • Sonoma County Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Program • Sebastopol Center for the Arts

• The Middle Way • Sebastopol Teen Center • Sebastopol Community Center • Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue • Sonoma County Head Start • Sebastopol Chamber of Commerce • Forestville Firefighters Association • Occidental Volunteer Fire Department • YMCA California Odyssey of the Mind • West County HealthCare Foundation

• Sebastopol Senior Community Center

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