Buckwheat Zydeco at James Hugh Powers Hall - Needham Town Hall

The Needham Bank Great Hall Performance Foundation presents Buckwheat Zydeco.
Sales for this individual concert begin on September 3, however you can subscribe to our entire 2016-17 series of four concerts (also including Rita Coolidge, Rockapella, and Mimi Stillman & Dulce Suono Ensemble) immediately.

American musical legend Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. (aka Buckwheat Zydeco) is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana's zydeco music. Contemporary zydeco's most popular performer, Buckwheat infuses his propulsive music with strains of rock and R&B.

Over the course of his career, this Grammy-winning artist has performed with everyone from Eric Clapton and Lyle Lovett to the Boston Pops - including performances at both of President Clinton's Inaugurals - bringing international attention to Louisiana-style zydeco....

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The Needham Bank Great Hall Performance Foundation presents Buckwheat Zydeco.
Sales for this individual concert begin on September 3, however you can subscribe to our entire 2016-17 series of four concerts (also including Rita Coolidge, Rockapella, and Mimi Stillman & Dulce Suono Ensemble) immediately.

American musical legend Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. (aka Buckwheat Zydeco) is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana's zydeco music. Contemporary zydeco's most popular performer, Buckwheat infuses his propulsive music with strains of rock and R&B.

Over the course of his career, this Grammy-winning artist has performed with everyone from Eric Clapton and Lyle Lovett to the Boston Pops - including performances at both of President Clinton's Inaugurals - bringing international attention to Louisiana-style zydeco.

Buckwheat Zydeco's groundbreaking first album, On a Night Like This (1987), brought the unique sound of zydeco into the musical mainstream. It was also the first major label zydeco record and a Grammy nominee. The band claims the three largest selling zydeco albums of all time - no other zydeco artist has come close to selling as many records or exposing the music to more people around the world.

The band celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009, and capped it with the release of the Grammy Award-winning CD, Lay Your Burden Down. In February of 2010 the album won for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album. Buckwheat Zydeco had been nominated four previous times in three different categories. This was the bands first Grammy win.

Over the course of Buckwheat Zydeco's career, he has performed with everyone from Eric Clapton and U2 to The Boston Pops. The band performed at the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics to a worldwide audience of three billion people. Recent national television appearances include PBS's tribute to Paul Simon, where Buck performed with Lyle Lovett; sitting in with Paul Shaffer on The Late Show With David; and feting Ozzie Ozbourne among others on VH1's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Buckwheat was recently profiled by Scott Simon, on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday. The band has appeared six times on Letterman, and on CNN, The Today Show, MTV, NBC News, CBS Morning News and many others.

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