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Louisiana supergroup! A tonic of swamp-pop, Cajun, country, blues, and zydeco!

The Revelers, founding members of the Red Stick Ramblers and The Pine Leaf Boys - “unquestionably the two groups at the vanguard of the Louisiana cultural renaissance” - have joined together to form a Louisiana supergroup which combines swamp-sop, Cajun, country, blues and zydeco into a powerful tonic of roots music that could only come from southwest Louisiana.

As individuals, they are each in high demand having performed and recorded with T-Bone Burnett, Natalie Merchant, Linda Ronstadt, Preston Frank, Walter Mouton, Mamadou Diabate, the Duhks, Cedric Watson, and Tim O'Brien, to name a few. As a group they play with a sense of empathy and depth that can only be fostered after years of making music together. They have all appeared on the 2011 season finale of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, and they also were handpicked by David Simon (producer/creator, The Wire) to be featured musicians for the third and fourth seasons of HBO's Tremé.

Equally at home on a festival main stage, a late night dance party, or a performing arts hall, the Revelers have taken their mission coast to coast in the U.S. and around the world from Ireland to Denmark, to their own Black Pot Festival in Lafayette, Louisiana. The Black Pot festival is a celebration of the culture of food, music, and dance that's still thriving in Acadiana, along with the Revelers' ties to the wider roots music community. Attracting a who's who of regional Louisiana dance bands along with folk, bluegrass, Tex-mex, gospel, songwriters, and old-time from across North America, it's the annual culmination of the party that the band brings with them to every stage they play on.

“Groove bound and dance compelling…” - Offbeat Magazine

http://revelersband.com/