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Giant Omelette 2010 Entertainment Schedule
let's get dancin......
Wow what a line up. Grab your dancing shoes or your lawn chair and come on out. All music is located adjacent to Abbeville's Magdalen Square. See you there! | | | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH, 2010
| | | Jim Voorhies and the All Niters: 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
 |  | | Jim Voorhies and the All Niters | | | Jim Voorhies and the All-Nighters is a lively three piece band that captures the heart and soul sound of Southwest Louisiana Music. based out of Lafayette, this band has performed and pleased audiences in and around the area at various nightclubs, restaurants, private functions, and special events, such s Lafayette's extremely popular Downtown Alive!, Alexandria's Downtown Rocks, and the Gonzales Swamp-Pop Festival.
The group continues to enjoy popularity with dancing audiences who enjoy their varied repertoire and entertaining performances. While the music they play is firmly rooted in Rhythm and Blues, their repertoire include Roots Rock and Roll Oldies, Swamp pop , Disco, Funk, Zydeco, and Soul.
This rockin' 3-piece is firmly anchored with veteran musicians that effectively combine to give the music a distinctive local flavor, whether it be Southwest Louisiana or the New Orleans sound, to all points in-between. It's good-timin' music for good-timin' people.
| | | The Babineaux/ Fuselier Band: 12:00 - 3:00pm
|  | | The Babineaux / Fuselier Band | | | The Babineaux/Fuselier Band is led by three extremely talented young musicians. The band consist of 12 year old Gracie Babineaux on accordion, fiddle, and vocals and her 10 year old sister, Julie Babineaux on guitar and vocals. The sisters are originally from Forked Island, Louisiana but now call the community of Meaux their home. They have been playing music for nearly five years.
13 year old Zachary Fuselier of Scott, Louisiana joins the sisters on fiddle and vocals to make an outstanding youth trio. Zachary has been playing fiddle for nearly a year and has been studying the French language for over eight years. He is very dedicated to preserving Cajun culture.
The band is very active and has performed various venues such as Festivals Acadian, Liberty Theatre, Vemilionville, The Begnaud House, and the Louisiana Folk
roots Balfa week.
| | | Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys: 3:00pm - 5:00 pm
|  | | Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys | | | Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys!!
AAA Southern Traveler Magazine has awarded Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys the title of "Best Local Musician" in the South.
Here is what they had to say:
Best local musicians: The Mamou Playboys
More than 20 years ago, Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys came on the scene with their brand of Cajun French music. Today, the band performs around the world and frequently appears in their home state of Louisiana. The current CD, “Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys Live” garnered their third Grammy nomination.
The band is called Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys. The guy in the middle holds a button-box that squeezes like an accordion, but shouts hallelujah like a big brass band. The fiddle cracks wise and warm, the guitar falls off the edge of the earth, and the rhythm section is purring rumble like a Coupe DeVille of shark-fin vintage. It all flows as a liquid-smooth groove, topped with three heartfelt voices harmonizing in 17th-century French from the steamy sub-tropics.
Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys began over twenty years ago with a reputation for excellence. Their stunningly clean and cohesive performance of Cajun French music from the backwaters of Southwest Louisiana propelled them into the world music limelight early on, and by their third release had garnered them a Grammy nomination in the worldwide field of traditional folk music, another in 2004, and then another in 2009.
From the day they started, they have gone from strength to strength. Never before in Cajun music has a comparable wealth of skills been brought to the same table.
When all that heart and all that skill focus on the revelry of a hot two-step, then turn on a dime and deliver an a cappella ballad, then play something that sounds like Howlin' Wolf fell in lust with a Creole girl, you've found the most Cajun music you can find in any one spot. You've found Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys.
click here to read more about Steve Riley | | | SUNDAY NOVEMBER 7th, 2010
| | | Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band: 10:00am - 1:00pm
|  | | Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band | | | One word to describe the swampdelic sounds of Chubby Carrier and Bayou Swamp Band? Fun. Pure Louisiana zydeco fun with a hot sauce chaser. Anybody who has doubts about the accordion as an instrument will be swayed the right way with Carrier's passion and fire on the instrument.
Discover more about Chubby Carrier | | | | | | Fa Tras Band Cajun Band: 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Each year the Fa Tras Cajun Band entertains the crowd while the 5000 Egg Omelette is being prepared. They are an institution with the Omelette Celebration and the local flavor they add to the afternoon is irreplaceable.
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Celebration Highlights
Saturday, November 6th
Walk for Charity
Tour of Homes
Juried Art Show
Live Entertainment
Kid's World
Antique Implement Show
Antique Tractor "Egg Cracking" Competition
Sunday, November 7th
Official Mass
Poker Run
Juried Art Show
Antique Car/Implement Show
Live Entertainment
Procession of Chefs
Giant "5000 Egg" Omelette Cooking
Future Omelette Dates
Nov. 6th & 7th, 2010
Nov. 5th & 6th, 2011
Nov. 3rd & 4th, 2012
Nov. 2nd & 3rd, 2013
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