Louisiana Crossroads
The award-winning concert series, radio broadcast and television program, is entering its 12th season with exciting new energy while remaining true to the deep roots that are so highly valued by audiences in Southwest Louisiana and around the world!


AN EVENING WITH STEVE EARLE
With Joel Savoy, Linzay Young and Dirk Powell
Jan 12 & 13 @ 8:00 PM at the AcA's James D. Moncus Theater
Creative whirlwind Steve Earle has been at the apex of American music for more than thirty years. In addition to releasing Grammy-winning CDs, scoring films, and writing novels, he has a key role in the HBO series Treme, for which he wrote the profoundly moving This City, a song about New Orleans after Katrina. This solo acoustic show will feature collaboration with some of the musicians featured in Treme, including Joel Savoy and Linzay Young, along with friend Dirk Powell.


A TRIBUTE TO LOUISIANA'S LITTLE WALTER, FEATURING JAMES COTTON, WITH HENRY GRAY
March 8 & 9 @ 8:00 PM at the AcA's James D. Moncus Theater
Marksville native Little Walter Jacobs, the father of amplified Blues harmonica, hasn't always received recognition for his deep-running Creole roots.  We're going to change that! James Cotton is a harmonica legend and Little Walter's peer in every sense, having replaced Walter in Muddy Waters' band in the 1950s. Legendary Louisiana blues pianist Henry Gray also performed with Walter and will treat us to music and stories that only he can tell.


DE TEMPS ANTAN, CEDRIC WATSON, ANNA LAURA EDMISTON AND DAVID GREELY --EXPLORING QUEBECOIS, ACADIAN AND CAJUN/CREOLE CONNECTIONS
April 12 & 13 @ 8:00 PM at the AcA's James D. Moncus Theater
The connections between the traditional music of Francophone Canada and Louisiana are undeniable but largely unexplored. This show will take us on that journey, led by world-class performers on both sides of the line. De Temps Antan are at the pinnacle of Quebecois music, featuring virtuoso fiddler André Brunet, along with stellar guitarist and musical scholar Eric Beaudry and master accordionist Pierre-Luc DuPuis. They will collaborate with top Louisiana artists David Greely, Anna Laura Edmiston and Cedric Watson.


ZIGABOO MODELISTE, KING OF THE FUNKY DRUMS
May 9 & 10 @ 8:00 PM at the AcA's James D. Moncus Theater
If you haven't heard Zigaboo's incredibly tight and genre-defining drumming on the original recordings of The Meters, or the pivotal Wild Tchoupitoulas recordings of the 1970s, you've undoubtedly heard one of the countless times he's been sampled during the last several decades.  A first generation creator of Louisiana funk, Zigaboo has worked with The Rolling Stones and countless others. This show, featuring his hard-grooving seven-piece band, will be the perfect high-energy closer to the season.