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Boogalusa at Fat Sams |
Boogalusa (10pm start)
Cajun-Zydeco swamp kings Boogalusa celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2010 and, to celebrate that landmark, they’ve released a brand-new live album this year. Recorded at several concerts during 2009, it brings all the fervour of their live set, including several new, never-before released tracks, to CD.
Based in Dundee, Boogalusa are a six-piece band playing their own original music based on rootsy cajun/zydeco swampland swing. With the emphasis on uptempo, in-your-face, get-up-and-dance fervour, they have delighted audiences the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland as well as in mainland Europe.
In addition to their very obvious cajun and zydeco influences, the band have introduced contrasting rhythms including reggae, African, Irish and even Ska, blended with their earlier influences to create their own unique sound.
In the 20 years they have been together they’ve notched up an impressive list of festival appearances, including T in the Park, the Edinburgh Festival, Celtic Connections, Mayfest, Shetland Festival, Orkney Festival, Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party, Glasgow Green, Dundee Millennium Party, etc., as well as festivals in France, Holland and Ireland. We're delighted they're playing at WestFest. |
The Five Aces |
The Five Aces (8:00pm start)
By their own admission The Five Aces are "a rhythm & blues group based in Glasgow". Armed with a hammond organ, a drum set and a singer (who brandishes other instruments), as well as the obligatory bass guitarist and guitar player, the band, in the words of top record producer Bosco Mann (Daptone Records) "successfully reclaim R&B" from it's "modern bastardization by major label pop".
Loosely speaking, their brand of music spans the period between the late 1950s and 1960s where rhythm & blues had almost started to develop into soul music and hammond organs played instrumentals that girls danced to. Within that description you will find them playing a generally uptempo selection of their own songs and interpretations of chart toppers previously performed by the likes of Eddie Bo, Lowell Fulson, Ray Charles, The Gardenias and of course the British Groups of yesteryear. - Hammondbeat
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