Vancouver Folk Music Festival

July 14 to 16, 2023

Cedric Watson & Jourdan Thibodeaux | LA

Festival veterans might remember a few years back – in 2012 in fact – at a workshop on what was then Stage 6, when Cedric Watson, the only soloist among a bunch of bands. led the whole thing and shone with his accordion, Zydeco, and Cajun folk songs. Well, he’s back and he’s brought a friend, fiddler Jourdan Thibodeaux.

Watson is a man with a vision “to present the Creole Nation of Louisiana to the Creole Nations in other parts of the world, to make these Creole cultures aware of the one in Louisiana, and vice versa.”  A decade later, with four Grammy nominations and hundreds of shows under his belt, Texas born Watson is still on his mission and still celebrating and performing the music of Louisiana.

Jourdan is described by his record company as “the guy you picture when someone says the word “authentic”… straight from the backwoods of Cypress Island, Louisiana.” His voice reminds you of where Hank Williams got his, and his fiddling is as good as it gets.

As a duo, Cedric Watson and Jourdan Thibodeaux are a compendium, second to none, of the living tradition of Louisiana. Eh la bas!