We’re looking forward to more performances this summer and will post them as they get confirmed.By Alan and Paul 10 Awesome French Podcasts for French Learners Everyone is invited to hear us as the featured act that evening at the Epicure along with several other local performing artists. Then we have our performance at the Epicure Cafe at Ron Goad’s SAW.ORG Music Variety Showcase, on Wednesday, July 26, 7:30pm – 11:30pm. One is a private summer kick-off party for a local realtor and one of my real estate photography clients, Jennifer Powell, of the Powell Team at Keller Williams Realty, at a local winery. The party featured bands playing everything from traditional county such as local recording artist Karen Collins and Friends, to French Cajun trios and a honky-tonk band, Mostly Honky Tonk, featuring lead singer Rob Petrie of Cold Hard Cash and the Petrified Pickers, to the sounds of traditional and inventive Cajun and Zydeco-style dance music by Nutalusa and the Louisiana-style party band, the Wild Anacostias, playing Mardi Gras, Street Parade Brass, Cajun, Zydeco, Funk, R&B & more.įrench Coast Café has two upcoming events. With a repertoire of tunes from Québec, France and Louisiana, French Coast Café continues to expand its exploration of French world music. gypsy jazz, blues, Cajun/Zydeco and world music.įrench Coast Café, with guest guitarist Jack O’Meara, recently participated as one of 11 bands performing at a Louisiana-style “ Fais Do Do” Cajun dance party. The music includes French classics, samba, jazz. We play mostly French music from France as well as French-speaking Canada and other Francophone countries, along with original tunes by our guitarist, Duane. With Carole Bausell on vocals and percussion, Duane Siler on guitar, and Larry Golfer on electric bass, the group’s niche is both classic and contemporary. This showcase has been offered since August 2011 by Ron Goad and The Songwriters’ Association of Washington (SAW), a nonprofit organization that hosts the annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest and publicizes opportunities for the music community monthly at SAW.orgįrench Coast Café is a trio of musicians from the Washington, DC area who play what we call French World Music. The Epicure was listed in “The Best Place to Hear Singer-Songwriters” in the Washingtonian Magazine, June 2016 We’ll be joined by five other outstanding acts. Come out at see us on November 3 at 7pm.Ĭome join us for an evening of entertainment, food and drinks as French Coast Café appears as the featured act in Ron Goad’s SAW.org Musical Showcase, this Wednesday evening at 7:30pm at the Epicure Café in Fairfax, Virginia. Many of the exhibiting artists were on hand at the reception to talk to visitors about their art, including French Coast Cafe bassist Larry Golfer.įrench Coast Cafe’s next gig will be at Beans in the Belfry, a unique coffee house in an historic restored church in Brunswick, Maryland. We’ll be there! Check with the Marx at (202) 518-7600 for show time.įrench Coast Cafe provided the soft background sounds of classic and jazzy French tunes, originals by guitarist Duane Siler, and more contemporary French music at the opening reception of the Lake Barcroft Art League Show, “Nature’s Artistry,” which began a month long exhibit at the new Gallery Walk space at Goodwin House, Alexandria.įrench Coast Cafe vocalist Carole Bausell entertained the crowd with her unique vocal stylings on tunes in both French and English such as La Mer (“The Sea”), made famous in the states by Bobby Darin, Nuages (Clouds) by Django Reinhart, and Autumn Leaves, originally done in French as “Les Feuilles Mortes,” as well as several beloved numbers by the great Edith Piaf. Robert will be at the Marx Cafe in Mount Pleasant on election night, Tuesday, November 6. 3203 Mt Pleasant St NW, Washington, DC 20010.
Our next house concert will be featuring the Stewart Sisters, some time in early 2019.
Robert followed with a great set of his blues tunes and some of his original pieces including “If I Were the President,” “She’s the One I Love,” and “Planting Season.”Ĭlick on the House Concert link on the upper right of this post to hear us playing three of our favorite tunes: “You Hung the Moon,” a piece written by our guitarist Duane Siler the Django Reinhardt tune “Nuages,” and our version of Sting’s “Consider Me Gone.” Opening acts included Cajun Malheur with Chris Smith and Will May, Americana songwriter/guitarist Alan Partlow, our band French Coast Cafe, and the Stewart Sisters. We were pleased to welcome Robert Lighthouse again as the featured act of a house concert here at the “Offshore Lounge” on October 21.
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