International Cajun & Zydeco Festival - Warming up the Winter

Mar 1
08:54

2010

Nirmani Dabare

Nirmani Dabare

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Bringing together a formidable collection of bands, the International Cajun and Zydeco Festival serves to warm your winter with a three day non-stop party.

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Bringing a warm taste of the America’s south to thaw through the cold,International Cajun & Zydeco Festival - Warming up the Winter Articles this January, Gloucester Guildhall will be the venue of a non-stop party lasting for three days. Entitled the International Cajun & Zydeco Festival and entering its seventeenth iteration, this year the festival promises an impressive selection of bands with a Cajun flavour.Some of the genre’s premier bands in the United Kingdom will be making an appearance this year including the likes of Sarah Savoy and the Francadians, The Whiskey River Zydeco Twisters, The Doughboys and The Cajun Company who will perform through the long weekend beginning on January 22nd. The event will also feature two dance workshops that will help visitors brush up on their moves for the event and future events as well. To complement the American theme the two workshops revolve around Cajun and Zydeco dancing.Movie goers will also be able to sit down to a screening of at least one film with a Cajun flavour to it, though there could well be more this year. While on the Saturday both Delta Maid and the Boat Band will be taking over the cinema space with their performances.The party has proved to be extremely popular each year and visitors from all over Europe including Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, Holland and even the United States travel to Gloucester to be a part of the festivities. Tickets are available for the weekend or for individual days each of which features a different price. Guests wanting to attend the festival whilst residing in the capital will find staying at a hotel in London such as Millennium Gloucester Hotel London Kensington to be an ideal choice. Guests of this Kensington hotel London will be situated in one of the city’s most prominent neighbourhoods and yet still be able to get to Gloucester conveniently.