Opening for Beausoleil tomorrow!

A final reminder for our favorite people: please please please come see Boréal Tordu at the Port City Music Hall in Portland, ME tomorrow night and as a special treat you'll get to also see (!) the first name in Cajun music, Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet.  Yes that's Doucet as in The Douce- Matthew's father, along with Uncle David, the ground-breaking, Grammy winning, genre-crossing brothers from Lafayette, Louisiana who have inspired generations of Acadian and Cajun musicians.  8pm doors, 8:30 cajun dance lesson, 9pm band.  Hope you can join us!

 

BEAUSOLEIL avec Michael Doucet
with special guests Boréal Tordu

Friday, August 20th @ 8pm
Port City Music Hall

Portland, ME
21+ (minors admitted with a parent only)
Advanced $18 / Door $20 / seated VIP $40

FREE CAJUN DANCE LESSON @ 8:30PM FOR INTERESTED TICKET HOLDERS

taught by Cindy Larock of Lewiston - Cajun and traditional dance instructor.

Air conditioned! | Great big hardwood dance floor | State of the art sound system

For further info, call Ceci Gilson 207-837-8849

Tickets can be purchased online at www.portcitymusichall.com or at any Bull Moose Music location.

Doors open at 8 pm. Tickets can be purchased at the door.

"THE BEST CAJUN BAND IN THE WORLD" - Garrison Keillor, Prairie Home Companion

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Boréal Tordu

La musique des Acadiens du Maine

30 Mechanic Street

Portland, ME

207.761.3931

info@borealtordu.com

http://www.borealtordu.com

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Return to Maine this week

Welcome all our new mailing list friends from the tour.  What a howling success! 16 gigs in 12 days, almost 2000 miles driven, over 80 CDs sold, 50 new mailing list subscribers, many new stories and lots of music shared.  Beaucoup de fun I'm telling you someTHING. 

 

Tuesday August 10th back in Portland Sylvain & the Cajun Aces continue the Fat Tuesday groove at Bayside Bowl, with Emma Holder teaching Zydeco Steps at 8:30pm and guess who is back in town and sitting in tonight?  The Horny Horns return! For directions see www.baysidebowl.com

 

Also this week on Thursday, August 12th Sylvain and the Aces appear at Festival Plaza in Auburn, ME for the noontime summer concert series sponsored by L/A Arts.  See www.laarts.org for more.

 

Friday August 13th Boréal Tordu returns to the Maine Coastal Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, ME for a special lawn party concert at 7pm.  For tickets and more info see http://www.mainegardens.org

 

Looking ahead please save the date: Friday, August 20th the incomparable Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet (yes THAT Michael Doucet) comes to Port City Music Hall in Portland with our own Boréal Tordu opening.  Stay tuned for more info and keep an eye on our site below.  This is a show not to be missed!

 

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Boréal Tordu

La musique des Acadiens du Maine

30 Mechanic Street

Portland, ME

207.761.3931

info@borealtordu.com

http://www.borealtordu.com

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Day Twelve and the Great Return

Day Last was beyond compare.  Castleton outdid itself.  Our third year there and the audience is bigger and more welcoming each year.  Due to weather we moved the show inside to a beautiful hall on campus with great acoustics and a great sound crew.  We ended up playing later that expected but we were only too happy to stay.  Dick and Gloria Nordmeyer are ever gracious hosts - pizza backstage and a warm introduction from Dick.  Our old pal Tony Cardamone was there taking photos- we used his shot of us at Castleton last year on the inside cover of Les Chevaliers.  We ended up selling more than three dozen CDs.  I'd be lying if I didn't say we were pretty tired out by this point, but the energy in that room lifted us up.  Quelle Belle Vie!  Quelle encore!  Merci Castleton!  

Stevie treated us all to Stewart's ice cream after the show.  I can't really remember what happened after that.  We made it home at about 4am.  Thanks to Pip and Andy for driving all the time.  Big thanks to Andy for booking an action-packed if grueling 12 days and thanks to our families for helping us get out to play.  It was hard to be away but I wouldn't trade the experience.  So many cool people and places.  Did I mention Hong's Dumplings?  Anyway my next adventure starts twelve hours after my return: flying to Minneapolis to see the family and relax on the lake for a week.  Then back at it with Aces at Bayside Bowl Tuesday, in Auburn for L/A Arts on Thursday noon, and Tordu's homecoming show at Maine Coastal Botanical Gardens in Boothbay on Friday.  On y va!

Day of Rest

Last night we went over some new material and did a few of Memere's
notebook songs with double fiddle. Very beautiful. Then a down-to-
the-wire cribbage match that exposed a Muise-Sylvain rivalry we didn't
even know was there. Today we spent a beautiful day on the lake in
Andy's Cobalt 22. We shot over to Lake George Village for ice cream
and wifi and a nice stroll. We couldn't afford the million-dollar
beach so we settled for the two-fitty be-ach. Pip Steve and I swam
out to the boat from the beach like Navy seals. Back at the ranch
Steve and I went for another run and Pip cooked up some killer beans
while Andy grilled the veggie-burgers. Thanks again, gentlemen!

Tomorrow, Castleton!

Day Ten

The weather in Millbrook was lovely, like every other day on this
tour. Nice big stage, nice big lawn, nice big crowd. The standout
here was the sound crew. Tom, Raj, and Lexi catered to our every whim
and the sound system was first class. The echo off the valley was
huge and a little strange but we had a great time time. To our
complete surprise, a local family marched across the green carrying a
big Acadian Flag. Turned out to be Les Gagnons de Millbrook. Bien
fait!

After the show we stopped at Charlotte's Restaurant to visit Steve,
who booked the show and was playing his own gig during our concert.
What a character! Hope we get to catch his set someday. We ended up
getting roped into a few drinks at Charlotte's by Renée and Laura at
the bar. Who could say no? The decor at this place was otherworldly
- felt kinda Hotel California for a minute there. Then the sound crew
showed up and we just had to stay for a few more. Good times. See
y'all next time.

We stayed at a family campground outside of town. Steve and I saw a
barred owl that sounded like an eastern hawk owl. Steve's still
trying to figure that one out. It hung out with us just a few yards
away, screeching and jumping around. Wacky.

The next day was surreal. We showed up for our gig in Lenox, MA at
the Lenox Community Center and the place was EMPTY! Nobody to greet
us, no signs or posters, no chairs set up. The doors were unlocked
but noone was home. We were there at noon for a 1pm start and woah!
Some signals were crossed. Still don't know what happened because
Andy's contact didn't answer the phone. Yikes! One sweet older lady
showed up at 1 o'clock who saw our concert listed in a newsletter. We
gave her a free CD and chatted for a while and then departed. Oh
well, another adventure!

Now we are back at Lake George, looking forward to some R&R before
Castleton. First thing was to jump in the lake and then Andy boated
us over to the store to get some wifi time. Tomorrow, laundry, more
swimming and boating, and rehearsals. Then the home stretch!