TCB
By Christopher Gray, Fri., Feb. 11, 2005
Photo By John Anderson
Fais Do-Do
Far from the madding crowd of Sixth Street, age-defying Cajun entertainers BeauSoleil dropped by the Texas Union Ballroom Saturday night for a mature Mardi Gras party. Fiddler Michael Doucet led his follically challenged ensemble, which he formed in the mid-Seventies, through traditional numbers like "The Flames of Hell" and new material from the band's recent Gitane Cajun, as a steady stream of dancers twirled around the Ballroom floor. The main pulse was Cajun waltz, not Texas two-step, but Austin's Cindy Cashdollar, who toured with BeauSoleil in 2001, added some homespun twang, as did Doucet's set-closing cover of friend Augie Meyers' "Can't You See." Très bon!
