Louis Michot at The Stone.

Lost Bayou Ramblers’ Louis Michot to Host Residency at Eclectic New York City Venue

Lost Bayou Ramblers co-founder Louis Michot will host a six-day residency at The Stone, a New York City music space curated by experimental music legend John Zorn. The series of shows will take place May 31 to June 5.

Located in NYC’s Alphabet City neighborhood, the venue has a reputation for hosting boundary-pushing jazz and avante-garde musicians, as well as for facilitating eclectic collaborations. Michot, a fiddler and vocalist, will be the first cajun/zydeco musician to lead a residency at the space.

lpm goMuch like past multi-day residencies at The Stone, Michot’s outing will consist of 12 shows over the course of 6 days. The series will begin on Tuesday, May 31 with an early set from his family band–Les Freres Michot–which feature his father Tommy Michot on accordion and his brother Andre Michot on guitar. It will be followed by a standard set from the Lost Bayou Ramblers.

Michot will lead a number of other off-kilter performances throughout the week, including sets from the Lost Bayou Ramblers Unplugged, Spider and the Cajuns (playing The Pogues with Spider Stacy of The Pogues), Michot’s Meldoy Melody Makers, The Mello Joy Boys (cajun swing), Le String Noise (violins ‘n’ fiddle) and a rendition of the Beasts of the Southern Wild score with members of the Wordless Music Orchestra. Some of these acts will be performing for the first, and possibly the last, time.

The full schedule for Michot’s residency can be found via The Stone’s calendar.