FESTIVAL LINKS

www.festivalinternational.com

This free 5-day festival is held in Lafayette, LA annually during the last full week of April.  In our opinion, it is the best festival in the US.

www.belechere.com

Asheville, NC’s free outdoor festival.held every July.

www.theleaf.com

The Lake Eden Arts Festival (aka. LEAF Festival) is a 3-day festival held every May and October in Black Mountain, NC.

MUSIC LINKS

www.handlebar-online.com

Greenville, SC’s premier music venue with an excellent restaurant and bar.

www.chuckprophet.com

Chuck Prophet is a singer, songwriter and electric guitarist based in San Francisco. Formerly of the group Green on Red, he is one of rock & roll's bests.

www.donnathebuffalo.com

Donna the Buffalo's music is a very danceable unique blend of reggae, rock, country, zydeco, Cajun, and folk traditions.

www.habibkoite.com

Habib Koité has his own individual style, but is also infused with the African traditions of his country, Mali.

www.johnnyclegg.com

In the early 1970s, Johnny Clegg formed South Africa's first multi-racial band, Juluka.  Today, Clegg continues to blend African music with European pop influences.

www.mamouplayboys.com

Steve Riley and his band, the Mamou Playboys, have been among Cajun music’s best bands for years.

www.nevilles.com

The Neville Brothers play some of the best New Orleans funk.

www.poidogpondering.com

Poi Dog Pondering is a celebrated musical ensemble renowned for their joyous live performances and lush recordings. If we had to classify them, we have to call it eclectic worldbeat/folk-rock.

www.reggaecowboys.com

A Canadian reggae band that fuses the lilting rhythms of the Caribbean with the outlaw imagery of the wild west.

www.shawnphillips.com

One of most fascinating and enigmatic musicians to come out of the early '70s singer-songwriter boom.  His music, crosses between folk-rock, jazz, progressive, pop, and classical.

www.sonnylandreth.com

The best slide guitarist in the world and a great songwriter.

www.terrancesimien.com

One of zydeco's most soulful vocalists and fieriest accordionists.

www.tukumusic.com

Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi is one of Zimbabwe's greatest artists.

www.urbantrad.com

Urban Trad is a band from Belgium that mixes Celtic music with more urban sounds.

ART LINKS

www.carolinaarts.com

A newspaper covering the visual arts of North and South Carolina.

www.georgeohr.org

A museum in Biloxi, MS devoted to George E. Ohr (1857-1918), who has been called the first art potter in the United States.

www.greenvillearts.com

Metropolitan Arts Council

www.greenvillemuseum.org

Greenville County Museum of Art

www.southcarolinaarts.com

The South Carolina Arts Commission

www.spartanburgartmuseum.org

The Spartanburg County Museum of Art

www.upstatevisualarts.org

Upstate Visual Arts

www.vangoghgallery.com

This website is endorsed by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

www.walterandersonmuseum.org

A museum dedicated to the celebration of the works of Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965),

MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

www.louisiana.edu

Our alma mater - Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette
(Formerly Univ. of Southwestern LA)

www.offbeat.com

New Orleans and Louisiana's monthly music magazine.

www.timesofacadiana.com

Lafayette, LA’s free weekly entertainment paper

www.turkeyworld.org

Our son’s web site.

www.wncw.org

WNCW is a public supported radio station that plays a unique mix of music.