NATCHITOCHES – The Louisiana Folklife Center at Northwestern State University will present a public concert by Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue on Tuesday, April 7 at 6 p.m. Natchitoches City Park at 401 Amulet Street in Natchitoches. The event is part of the Picnic in the Park series sponsored by the Natchitoches Parish Early Childhood Network and the Natchitoches Parish Library.
The event is free and open to the public. Call the Natchitoches Parish Library at (318) 238-9224 by March 30 to reserve your plate of a hot dog, chips, cookie and a drink.
Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue perform country, rockabilly and western swing music with songs dating back to the 1940s. They have played at numerous festivals, including the French Quarter Festival and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Their awards include New Orleans’ based OffBeat Magazine’s 2010 Best Country/Folk Band and Best Country/Folk Album 2010 (both awards voted on by an international readership), and Best Country/Folk Band in both 2008 and 2009 from the Big Easy Awards. Their performance at Picnic in the Park will feature a mix of country, rockabilly and bluegrass music, with songs that will appeal to a younger audience.
The concert is a prelude to the 46th Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival, which will be held in air-conditioned Prather Coliseum on the NSU campus on July 18. The day long Festival will feature folk crafts, food, the Louisiana State Fiddle Championship and three stages of music, with musicians such as Holiday, Kevin Naquin and the Ossun Playboys, Chris Breaux and Six String Rodeo and the Winnsboro Easter Rock Ensemble.
Support for the Festival is provided by grants from the Cane River National Heritage Area, Inc., the City of Natchitoches, the Louisiana Division of the Arts Decentralized Arts Fund Program, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Natchitoches Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Natchitoches Historic District Development Commission, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and the Shreveport Regional Arts Council.
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For more information, call the Louisiana Folklife Center at (318) 357-4332, email folklife@nsula.edu, or go to nsula.edu/folklife/.