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Freret Street Fest returns April 6 with Little Freddie King, Dwayne Dopsie & more
On Saturday, April 6, the Freret Street Corridor in Uptown New Orleans will transform into a street party when the Freret Street Festival returns. Produced by Freret Market, the free […]
John Boutte, Dwayne Dopsie, Hot 8 & more set for Tremé Fall Festival
The first weekend in October will mark the return of the Tremé Fall Festival, the annual affair aiming to preserve Tremé’s architecture, culture, history and future. Supported by the Historic Faubourg […]
Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers, “Top of the Mountain” (Crew Records)
Dwayne Dopsie is always stylin’ whether he’s kicking in on a hot, uptempo two-step, showing his roots as an accordionist and vocalist on a more traditional tune or swaying an […]
Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers, Calling Your Name (Sound of New Orleans)
Zydeco accordionist and vocalist Dwayne Dopsie is a dynamo whose energized stage charisma translates right onto his recordings. Dospie, the youngest son of the late zydeco giant Alton “Rockin’ Dopsie” […]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 14): Dwayne Dopsie’s Zydeco Birthright
“I loved to listen to it. That was the old-style blues. To play that style of blues on an accordion, it was unheard of — unless you was Clifton Chenier,” […]
Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers, Up in Flames (Sound of New Orleans Records)
A churning dynamo, fully powered from start to finish, the latest release from Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers backs up the threat of its title. All 10 tracks burn […]
Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers, Up In Flames (Sound of New Orleans)
Unlike his contemporaries Keith Frank, Chris Ardoin and Curley Taylor, whose fathers also played professionally, Dwayne Dopsie leans more towards the older, bluesier variety of his father, the legendary Rockin’ […]
Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, Traveling Man (Sound of New Orleans)
In the zydeco world, the acorn doesn’t seem to fall far from the tree. Nearly every major zydeco artist from the 1970s and 1980s now has a son carrying on […]
