Links
If you want to find out a little about Lu’s influences and inspirations, check out these links:
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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. |
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Asheville, NC’s free outdoor festival.held every July. |
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The Lake Eden Arts Festival (aka. LEAF Festival) is a 3-day festival held every May and October in Black Mountain, NC. |
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MUSIC LINKS |
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Greenville, SC’s premier music venue with an excellent restaurant and bar. |
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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. |
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Donna the Buffalo's music is a very danceable unique blend of reggae, rock, country, zydeco, Cajun, and folk traditions. |
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Habib Koité has his own individual style, but is also infused with the African traditions of his country, Mali. |
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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. |
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Steve Riley and his band, the Mamou Playboys, have been among Cajun music’s best bands for years. |
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The Neville Brothers play some of the best New Orleans funk. |
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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. |
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A Canadian reggae band that fuses the lilting rhythms of the Caribbean with the outlaw imagery of the wild west. |
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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. |
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The best slide guitarist in the world and a great songwriter. |
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One of zydeco's most soulful vocalists and fieriest accordionists. |
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Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi is one of Zimbabwe's greatest artists. |
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Urban Trad is a band from Belgium that mixes Celtic music with more urban sounds. |
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ART LINKS |
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A newspaper covering the visual arts of North and South Carolina. |
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A museum in Biloxi, MS devoted to George E. Ohr (1857-1918), who has been called the first art potter in the United States. |
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Metropolitan Arts Council |
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Greenville County Museum of Art |
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The South Carolina Arts Commission |
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The Spartanburg County Museum of Art |
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Upstate Visual Arts |
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This website is endorsed by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. |
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A museum dedicated to the celebration of the works of Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965), |
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MISCELLANEOUS LINKS |
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Our alma mater - Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette |
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New Orleans and Louisiana's monthly music magazine. |
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Lafayette, LA’s free weekly entertainment paper |
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Our son’s web site. |
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WNCW is a public supported radio station that plays a unique mix of music. |
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