<h1>Doors at 7:00 PM / Cajun/Zydeco Dance Lesson at 7:00 PM / T Marie &amp; Bayou Juju at 7:30 / Ann Savoy &amp; The Raggedy Ann Dance Band 8:30 PM</h1> When Ann Savoy travels alone to one of her favorite places, Berkeley, she calls some her her best musician friends to get together and play music. This fun resulted in the creation of Ann Savoy and the Raggedy Ann Dance Band, which will be playing at the wonderful Ashkenaz Dance Hall on San Pablo Avenue. They will be playing Cajun, Zydeco, country blues, and even some R&amp;B!! Put on your dancing shoes and come enjoy the fun!! AND to make it even better, we will be joined on stage by brilliant Berkeley star Laurie Lewis!!!! T Marie and Bayou Juju serves up original and traditional South Louisiana Cajun, Creole, Swamp Pop, Country, Zydeco, and New Orleans tunes. The band offers fresh South Louisiana dive bar and dancehall interpretation of traditional music. Poignant original songs written by the band members (in both English and Francais Louisianaise) personalize the music. Each band member is a musician and songwriter in their own right, and when they play together, you can feel the power of the musical friendships that they have cultivated. The band was formed in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida and the album they recorded just 6 months after being born 1) made the initial Grammy Ballot for Best Regional Roots Music Album, 2) was nominated for Offbeat Magazine's Best Cajun Album, 3) came in at #3 on Band Camp's Cajun/Zydeco chart for both July and November 2022. <h2>TICKETS:</h2>STUDENT discount:&nbsp;$12 (ONLY AT THE DOOR - have your student ID ready)GA Presale: $20GA DoS: $25 More Information:Ann Savoy is a musician, an author, a record producer, and a photographer. In 2024 her latest CD, "Another Heart", will be released by the prestigious Smithsonian Folkways. Before that she recorded a twice Grammy nominated CD of duets “Adieu False Heart”, with the legendary artist Linda Ronstadt. As a musician she plays guitar, fiddle, and accordion, and traveled throughout the world with her husband accordionist Marc Savoy and fiddler Michael Doucet in the Savoy Doucet Cajun Band, with her all-woman band The Magnolia Sisters, and with Marc and their talented sons in the Savoy Family Band. She appears with her son Joel in the film Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood and performs three of the twelve cuts on the accompanying soundtrack on Sony Music. She has recorded 20 CDs on the Arhoolie, Rounder, and Vanguard labels. She worked with renowned producer T Bone Burnett as associate music producer for the Sony film “All The King’s Men”, composing a song for the film which is performed by Ann Savoy and her Sleepless Knights, her vintage style jazz group. Ann has appeared in many documentaries on the subject of Cajun music, including the PBS series American Roots Music, and with her husband was the subject of Les Blank’s film,”Marc and Ann”. Most recently she was on the "Samantha Brown's Favorite Places" with her group the Magnolia Sisters, and was featured in an episode of "Craft In America" with the Savoy Family Cajun Band. With the Magnolia sisters she performed at the Dolby Theater in Los Angles for a Lifetime Achievements show honoring Chris Strachwitz. She also has works as an record producer for Vanguard Records, for whom she produced the Grammy nominated tribute to Cajun music, "Evangeline Made", featuring, among others, pop and folk idols Linda Ronstadt, John Fogerty, Richard and Linda Thompson, Nick Lowe, and Rodney Crowell performing traditional Cajun tunes. Her second project for Vanguard, a tribute to Creole and Zydeco, entitled Creole Bred, featuring Cyndi Lauper, Taj Mahal, David Hidalgo, and many others,came out in May 2004. As a writer, she is the author of two books, Cajun Music, A Reflection of a People Volumes 1 and 2, books which chronicle the history of Cajun and Zydeco music through interviews, biographies, historic and current photographs, and song transcriptions. These books are considered the Cajun Bible all over the world. She wrote the chapter on Cajun and Zydeco in the recently released book, American Roots Music, Rolling Stone Press, as well as authoring numerous articles on Cajun music and historic CD booklets. For the show she will be joined by well known Berkeley musicians, among them the hugely acclaimed Laurie Lewis and fiddling wunderkind Suzy Thompson plus members of the Creole Belles.