Buckwheat Zydeco
New Orleans, LA
Blues / Zydeco / Soul
Bio
American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr.—along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco—is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Over the course of 30 years, Buckwheat Zydeco has gigged with everyone from Eric Clapton (with whom Buckwheat also recorded) 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. Buckwheat even performed for President Clinton twice, celebrating both of h...
Comments
Mark Sherry:
Much love to you Buckwheat Man! Great to find you here...Mark
Sep 30
Jamband Express:
great sound ... 're recording an album that will have accordion on two tracks ... a blues and a version of this rip join the Rolling Stones ... is getting very good:)
Jul 26
Press
“Stanley ‘Buckwheat’ Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics…propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances.”
Status
Status:
Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural, Jr. (of Buckwheat Zydeco) won the Blues Music Award for Best Instrumentalist - Accordion. The band recently won the Grammy Award in the Zydeco category for its Alligator de
Artist Stats
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Blog
BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO SCORES AT THE BLUES MUSIC AWARDS
May 07, 2010 at 12:23 PM
On Thursday, May 7 the Blues Foundation awarded Alligator recording artist Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural, Jr. (of Buckwheat Zydeco) the award for Best Instrumentalist - Accordion. The band recently won the Grammy Award in the Zydeco category for its Alligator debut, Lay Your Burden Down.
The Blues Music Awards are recognized as the highest honor given...
