Buckwheat Zydeco at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

If you’re even a casual fan of the music of Louisiana, you’ve heard the name Buckwheat Zydeco. The stage name of Stanley Dural Jr., Buckwheat Zydeco lays claim to having recorded the three highest-selling zydeco records of all time, and no other artist in the genre has had such a far-reaching influence. A fixture on the regional Louisiana/Texas scene since the 1970s, Buckwheat Zydeco brought mainstream notoriety to his genre with the 1987 Island Records release of On a Night Like This, the first zydeco album ever released on a major label. Equally adept at both accordion and organ, Dural and his band bring high-energy arrangements to the stage, blending the accordion-washboard-powered zydeco with soul and funk in celebratory and infectious fashion...

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If you’re even a casual fan of the music of Louisiana, you’ve heard the name Buckwheat Zydeco. The stage name of Stanley Dural Jr., Buckwheat Zydeco lays claim to having recorded the three highest-selling zydeco records of all time, and no other artist in the genre has had such a far-reaching influence. A fixture on the regional Louisiana/Texas scene since the 1970s, Buckwheat Zydeco brought mainstream notoriety to his genre with the 1987 Island Records release of On a Night Like This, the first zydeco album ever released on a major label. Equally adept at both accordion and organ, Dural and his band bring high-energy arrangements to the stage, blending the accordion-washboard-powered zydeco with soul and funk in celebratory and infectious fashion. Concert crowds and zydeco dancers have not been the only ones singing the praises of Buckwheat Zydeco over the years, as he’s collaborated and toured with U2 and The Boston Pops, among others, He also performed at both of President Clinton’s inaugurals and the 1996 Olympics. Buckwheat Zydeco is, as USA Today notes, “a zydeco trailblazer.”

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