Author Archives: Sam Irwin

September 1st 2011

Quiet Time at the Red Dragon Listening Room in Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge is the musical no man’s land between funky New Orleans and canaille Lafayette. It has one thing neither city has—the Red Dragon Listening Room—a venue concept that will never make it in Uptown New Orleans or in the Hub City because it’s a club that is not designed to make a profit, ever. [...]

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November 1st 2010

Neck and Neck at Tom’s Fiddle and Bow

Al Berard takes his place in a chair at Tom’s Fiddle and Bow in Arnaudville. He runs his fingers down the neck of his violin and taps the bow lightly across the bridge. Luthier Tom Pierce has already set up the room for Berard’s Monday night “learn-as-you-play” Cajun fiddle-teaching jam. Pierce’s shop is perched above [...]

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