Concert-Recording Session Featuring Sarah Lipstate, Dickie Landry, and Louis Michot Perform Solo Sets

The CENTER for LOUISIANA STUDIES is excited to partner with SICKBAY to host an intimate evening of solo performances at DOCKSIDE STUDIOS on Thursday, May 18, featuring DICKIE LANDRY, NOVELLER, and LOUIS MICHOT. These artists have achieved accolades and success far beyond their hometowns, pushing their instruments and their compositions well beyond the bounds of what would be considered Louisiana music into exciting new forms, yet remaining connected to the underlying roots of community building and storytelling through music and art. The event is a benefit for the Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore.

Tickets are $25 for general admission seating in the recording studio and $75 for VIP seating in the control room, and are available exclusively through Eventbrite.com (link below). Light refreshments provided by SCRATCH and MAGNOLIA MOON will be INCLUDED with admission during the event, as will a digital copy of the recording sessions once completed.

Doors open at 6pm and music will begin at 6:45. Please note that due to the nature of the event, no admittance will be allowed during performances, and no tickets will be available at the door. Seating is very limited, so purchase your tickets today.

Cecilia-born DICKIE LANDRY is a saxophonist, flutist, photographer and visual artist recognized for his accomplishments as an avant-garde jazz and classical soloist, as a founding member of the Philip Glass Ensemble, for his collaborations with Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, Ornette Coleman, Bob Dylan, Robert Rauschenberg and many notable others, as well as locally with super group Lil' Band 'O Gold and infamous Lafayette rockers Frigg A-Go-Go.

Through the guitar compositions of NOVELLER, Lafayette-raised, Los Angeles-based Sarah Lipstate conjures into sound the unutterable, intrinsic beauty of both the mundane and magical moments of waking life, and the terror and bliss of the subconscious. Her work feels inspired and at times otherworldly, yet somehow familiar, folding and unfolding onto itself organically. Over the past ten years, Lipstate has released eight albums and a trove of EPs, and gone from being influenced by Glenn Branca and the guitarists of Sonic Youth to collaborating with them. She has extensively toured nationally and internationally on her own as well as in support of artists ranging from the Jesus Lizard to Saint Vincent to Iggy Pop.

Also from Lafayette, LOUIS MICHOT is richly steeped in traditional Cajun culture -- from its language and history, both written and anecdotal, to living day-to-day in Prairie des Femmes, and into the music he has played since childhood with Freres Michot, Michot's Melody Makers, and the celebrated Lost Bayou Ramblers -- yet not at all content to leave it solely in the past, constantly challenging expectations of what Cajun music can sound like through a vibrant synthesis of a broad range of traditional and modern modes and a commanding vision distinctly his own.

Each musician will perform a solo set, which will be recorded live among the general seating.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cls-and-sickbay-present-solo-sets-with-nove...

The Center for Louisiana Studies and Sickbay would like to thank the generosity of the Haynie Family Foundation for its support of these performances.