Not content with simply booking one-off cajun and zydeco events and teaching folks how to spin and strut to those genres, last year Sharon Schiliro and Michael Hart organized the first Dancing by the Bayou Festival at Glen Echo Park. The festival's back this weekend, with the addition of a pre-fest kick-off dance tonight at [...]

There are international and roots music offerings aplenty this holiday weekend.  Some highlights below:
Friday May 28
Xtreme and Julio Voltio at 9 p.m. at Star Lounge, 7203 Little River Turnpike Annandale VA. (571) 263-3882. $25.  Dominican duo Xtreme will bring the slow-dance bachata ballads while Puerto Rican Voltio will spit reggaeton verses.
Bruce Daigrepont and band at [...]

Louisiana Creole and Cajun music has long had a home in the D.C. area.  From the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Twist and Shout club and Wolf Trap’s “Swamp Romp” to Texas Fred Carter’s WPFW Saturday afternoon radio show and dances at Glen Echo Park,  distinctive fiddle and accordion-led bayou sounds have always been on the [...]