Pembrokeshire Eclectic Music Society have organised a wonderful evening of high class Cajun music featuring Cajun masters Jesse Lege and Joel Savoy born and raised in the tradition from Louisiana along with fantastic vocalist Kelly Jones who when together are known as Cajun Country Revival.

It will be hosted at Manorbier YHA Hall, Skrinkle Haven, on August 28. Tickets are available on the door, or you can pre-book by calling 01646 672457. The doors will open at 7 for an 8 pm show.

Accommodation can be booked for those travelling directly on the YHA website, there is also camping available.

This is a fantastic opportunity to experience real genuine Cajun music from three of Louisiana’s best musicians, it is going to be an informal and fun time where we hope to encourage some two step dancing and waltzing away worries. Of course there will be seats for the chair wrigglers!

Spanning generations from across the nation the Cajun Country Revival is a veritable supergroup of American roots musicians. Comprised of Cajun musicians Jesse Lége and Joel Savoy and Kelli Jones, this group presents a music that seems to embody all of the things that make life wonderful and together they’ve delighted audiences around the world celebrating rather than ‘performing’ the music that brought them together: Cajun music and early Country music. Son of Cajun music royalty Marc and Ann and the founder of the Louisiana-based label Valcour Records, Joel Savoy is a GRAMMY winner for his production work with The Band Courtbouillon and a nine-time GRAMMY nominee, as well as a two-time winner of the Cajun French Music Association’s Fiddler of the Year Award. Having grown up literally at the feet of the Cajun great he represents his culture with an authority that few people his age can and his playing leaves no doubt that Cajun music is still very much alive. He has worked and played with the best of the best in south Louisiana as well as folks like John Fogerty, Linda Ronstadt, Steve Earle, and T-Bone Burnett.

Sharing the stage with Joel for the last 15 years is the legendary Cajun powerhouse, Jesse Lége. Growing up in a rural pre-electricity home in Gueydan, LA, Jesse spoke Cajun French and learned music from relatives, neighbors, and the family’s much-loved battery-powered radio. Today he is one of the most admired Cajun accordionists and vocalists in the world, known especially for his high, clear, “crying” vocals. Jesse has been playing traditional Cajun music and singing Cajun French songs for over 35 years performing with a variety of well-known musicians in various Louisiana and southeast Texas dance halls. He is a winner of numerous CFMA awards: Traditional Band of the Year, Accordion Player of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Band of the Year, and Song of the Year. In 1998 he was inducted into the Cajun Music Hall of Fame.

Completing the revival is Kelli Jones, who grew up in North Carolina before moving to Lafayette, Louisiana. Her father Carl Jones is an Old Time, Appalachian influenced fiddler and Kelli started fiddling at 15 and has been playing fiddle and guitar with the best Cajun bands since 2006. Kelli plays fiddle and guitar in the progressive Cajun band Feufollet and is a prolific songwriter in both English and Cajun French. She plays Country, Old Time and Cajun and her bewitching, melodic grace adds a special dimension to those beautiful contemporary and old tunes.