TAB BENOIT'S SWAMPLAND JAM
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TIPITINA'S FRENCH QUARTER


Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Time: Doors open at 9pm
Place: Tipitina's French Quarter, 233 North Peters St., New Orleans
Tickets: Advance tickets are $20 available at www.backbeatpresents.com

Please join us at Tipitina's French Quarter on Saturday, April 25th for a night of Swampland Jam with Louisiana guitar sensation Tab Benoit!

Born and raised on the Louisiana bayou, guitarist-singer Tab Benoit has been the standard bearer for a new generation of Cajun blues musicians - a traditionalist and an innovator at the same time, grafting elements of rock and soul to the indigenous sounds of the bayou. With all the makings of an American music icon, Tab Benoit has become one of the premiere roots stylist of the century. He won the "2006 Best Contemporary Blues Recording" award at the Blues Music Awards with his release "Fever For The Bayou." That same year, Tab Benoit received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album with his record "Brother to the Blues." Tab Benoit also won the "Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year" award and the "B.B. King Entertainer of the Year" award at the 2007 Blues Music Awards.

And if dedicating his life to his musical roots weren't enough, Tab Benoit has also been a tireless crusader in recent years - prior to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina but even more so since - for the preservation of the rapidly vanishing wetlands of his native region. In 2004, he founded Voice of the Wetlands, a coalition of local artists and business leaders focused on driving awareness and developing educational outlets/programs about the loss of the wetlands in southern Louisiana. Tab Benoit also played a prominent musical role in Hurricane on the Bayou, a documentary by filmmaker McGillivray Freeman that chronicles life in Louisiana in the aftermath of Katrina and that was shown in IMAX theaters in the U.S., Canada and Europe throughout 2007.

Don't miss this legend of Louisiana's folklore at Tipitina's French Quarter!

Advance tickets are $20 and can be purchased at www.backbeatpresents.com or www.ticketweb.com.