Pine Leaf Boys: Get Off My Lawn

[Tripple Threat]

That was beautiful...really. I wonder if the Dean is aware of these freedom's.

[Corndog308]

Let me give ya'll something to think about. Being a former bus driver for UL for 4 years, i can tell you that the UP's are a waste of a blue uniform. They look for anything and i mean ANYTHING to enforce their "power of the blue uni" on you. If someone scratches their arm, the whole force is there, they think they are more powerful than state troopers, the FBI, etc. And no, I am not exaggerating. I know because we dealt with them a lot. They're the bullies on campus, and they will always be.

[NewsCopy]

If you don’t know the name Wilson Savoy, you will. A Eunice native and son of master accordionist and squeezebox builder Marc Savoy, Wilson is making a huge impact as a musician, cultural advocate and filmmaker. He’s only 24. Wilson’s band, the Pine Leaf Boys, has literally become an overnight sensation. The Boys, who are all in their early 20s and late teens, became media darlings last spring when they were kicked off the University of Louisiana campus for playing their energetic Cajun and Creole music. A few months later, they signed a record deal with Arhoolie Records of El Cerrito, Calif. and released their debut CD, "La Musique." Gigs stretching from Maryland to Fort Lauderdale to the New Orleans Jazz Fest await the Boys during the next two months. The rest of the story Herman Fuselier hfuselier@theadvertiser.com

[NewsCopy]

The Pine Leaf Boys Bring Some Irreverence to Cajun Music with La Musique The Pine Leaf Boys are a funny bunch. Even their name is irreverently funny (think about it for a second if you don't get the joke). They're a group of young guys whose non-musical behavior brings to mind the frathouse in college - you know the one, with the burning furniture in their lawn and the nonstop keg parties. Okay, they're not that bad, but they did get thrown off of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Campus once (they were playing music on the quad... apparently a no-no). In any case, they are a bunch of mischievious youngsters who play by far some of the best Cajun music out there today. When the music starts, the hilarity stops. There's no Caribbean-Cajun fusion (a la Beausoleil) or Swamp Pop slickness (a la Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys).... this is pure, unbridled, straight-up Cajun and Creole music, played carefully and lovingly in the old style. The rest of the story

[BabbForHeisman]

Last year...kicked off of campus
This year...playing Jazz Fest

Not bad

[RaginRash]

Last year...kicked off of campus
This year...playing Jazz Fest

Not bad

Fais-Do-Do Stage
Friday, May 5th

I will be at "da Fess" today.

http://www.nojazzfest.com/schedule/5506.html

[Rebel02]

The Pine Leaf Boys played Wednesday night at Festival International.

[jfolse]

Look I was a chemical engineering student back a couple years ago. So I had to take a lot of courses in the chemistry building. I can understand that the noise would be a problem to the students. That being said I dont see a problem with the band performing out side of PJ's. But hey its Louisiana we tax are permit the death out of our citizens. This should be no surprise.

[NewsCopy]

On the second Friday of this year’s Jazz Fest, the Pine Leaf Boys made their Fair Grounds debut. There was a lot riding on the show because Cajun music desperately needed a young band to come forward and get young audiences excited about the genre. If any act was going to break through the domination of zydeco and make South Louisiana dancehalls safe again for fiddle music, this was the group that was going to do it. Chris Strachwitz, the owner of the California roots-music label Arhoolie Records, paced nervously on the sidelines. Onto the Fais Do Do Stage came the five musicians, all in their early 20s, wearing baseball caps, jeans and sneakers. They began with Clifton Chenier’s “Zydeco Sont Pas Sale,” and Wilson Savoy and Cedric Watson pumped the bellows of their button accordions as if they were trying to get a fire started. They soon succeeded, and the zydeco standard crackled and sparked, even with the old-school Creole spin the band put on it. That was fine, but there’s no shortage of South Louisiana bands that can play stomping zydeco two-steps. What’s missing are young bands that can play fiddles and waltzes with the same intensity that they bring to zydeco. So Strachwitz kept pacing. The real test would be the second song, a traditional waltz called “Musician with a Broken Heart.” Savoy picked up a fiddle and Watson stayed on the squeezebox—the reverse of their primary instruments—and Watson sang the lilting lament in French. The rest of the story By Geoffrey Himes offbeat.com

[Tripple Threat]

Excellent story.