Zydeco (French: "les haricots" or "le zaricot", English: "green beans" or "snap beans") is a form of American roots music. It evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th century from forms of Creole music. The rural black Creoles of southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas still sing and play this music.
Usually fast tempo and dominated by the button or piano accordion and a form of a washboard known as a "rub-board," "scrub-board," "wash-board," or frottoir, zydeco music was originally created at house dances, where families and friends gathered for socializing.
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and genre that originated in African-American communities of the Deep South at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-barblues chord progression is the most common. The blue notes that, for expressive purposes, are sung or played flattened or gradually bent (minor 3rd to major 3rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part of the sound.
Zydeco Show and Blues Revue is just a damned good feelin' of snap beans and soulful sounds. It ain't about what you know, but about what you feel!
It's just about hot stepping music and good times. It's about five people who want to play music that will lift your spirits and make you feel good. It's about a show and not just playing music, but giving you something to feel, too.
The House of Bishops is just down right fun. Come and and enjoy the good times!!!
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