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Press Information for C. J. Chenier & His Red Hot Louisiana Band

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Zydeco Superstar Will Close the Long’s Park 2010 Season August 29, 2010.

LANCASTER, PA -- C. J. Chenier, “the best living zydeco singer and accordionist” (Living Blues Magazine), and his Red Hot Louisiana Band will close the Long’s Park 2010 Summer Music Season on a sizzling high note Sunday, August 29, 2010. With a music tradition laden with funk and blues, the foot-stomping, dance-inducing music of the bayou will begin at 7:30 pm.

The Red Hot Louisiana Band promises to have its Long’s Park audience on their feet with “contemporary, turbo-charged dance music” (The Boston Globe). Led by the consummate showman C. J. Chenier, the band’s music “remains unparalleled as a party starter” (Billboard Magazine).

Chenier inherited his accordion and his band from his father and zydeco legend, Clifton Chenier. The younger Chenier remains true to his father’s roots and is widely regarded as “zydeco’s new torch bearer” (Blues Revue). Growing up, C. J.Chenier listened to an eclectic mix of funk, blues, soul and Motown. He dreamed of becoming a jazz masician, and today these influences permeate his own brand of funky and soulful attitude. Declared the Chicago Reader, he “embodies the probable future of zydeco, stirring contemporary influences...into his spicy musical gumbo.”

C. J. Chenier & His Red Hot Louisiana Band have taken their music far from the Big Easy with appearances on VH1, CNN, Jon Stewart and “Entertainment Weekly.” Fans have followed them to jazz and blues festivals from New Orleans and Houston to Chicago and Seattle.

Chenier has released seven albums. After the devastation of the Gulf region the Red Hot Louisiana Band calls home, Chenier returned to the studio to record “The Desperate Kingdom of Love” which was released in 2006.

The finale of the 2010 season is a “guaranteed crowd-pleaser” with “an authentic zydeco master (The Chicago Tribune).

Long’s Park concertgoers are invited to bring picnics, blankets and lawn chairs to the park. A selection of food purveyors will also be in the park, offering a complete meal’s worth of family foods and desserts. Long’s Park is an alcohol-free park.

The 48th annual Long’s Park Summer Music Series is produced and underwritten by the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation. The 13 weeks of award-winning, live performances are presented free of charge at Long’s Park, thanks to generous sponsors, private donors and proceeds of the Labor Day weekend Long’s Park Art & Craft Festival. Season sponsors are Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and Susquehanna Bank. Season media sponsors are WARM 103 and 96.1 WSOX. Weather sponsor is WGAL-TV News 8. Building sponsor is Wickersham Construction and Engineering, Inc.

Partial funding has been provided through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA), a state agency funded by an annual state appropriation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PCA supplies funding to nonprofit, tax-exempt corporations, a unit of government or a school district with arts programming or services in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Long’s Park is conveniently located at 1441 Harrisburg Pike in Lancaster, just off Route 30 across from Park City Center. All events are free of charge and held rain or shine, except in the case of dangerously inclement weather.

Additional information and links to musical previews of Long’s Park’s performers can be found at www.longspark.org or on Facebook. For details on corporate sponsorships of the Long’s Park Summer Music Series and to learn how to make individual and corporate contributions, contact the Long’s Park Amphitheater Foundation at www.longspark.org.