Sentences with phrase «from zydeco»
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — April — May The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - one of New Orleans most celebrated events — is a musical, culinary and cultural celebration of New Orleans heritage, with great food, crafts and over 10 stages of music ranging from zydeco to rock to jazz.
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Add to that a cavalcade of clichés from the local color that reads like a Chamber of Commerce video (jazz bands, an overdose of zydeco flavoring in the score by Ry Cooder wannabe Steve Mazzaro, Bobo's swamp house that's apparently just down the bayou from Jason Statham's in «The Mechanic») to the utterly predictable story beats, and you've got a thoroughly generic movie that can only sporadically provide even gut - level thrills.
The commonly accepted explanation for the word «zydeco» is that it comes from the old Creole adage, «Les haricots ne sont pas sales,» meaning literally «the beans aren't salty,» a lamentation that times are hard when you can't even have salt for your beans.
Zydeco markedly differs from Cajun music (with which it is often conflated or confused) in that Cajun utilizes the fiddle heavily, while zydeco's distinctive sound comes from the accordion, accompanied by the frottoir.
In Red Now and Laters, there are several references to zydeco, a type of music descended from Louisiana Creoles.
I knew I wanted to use zydeco music — zippy playful music from my Louisiana heritage that went along with an underlying music theme in the book.