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FITZGERALD'S 33rd ANNIVERSARY TENT SHOW: Tab Benoit plus Sol Driven Train

The third of four consecutive nights celebrating FitzGerald's 33rd Anniversary. Tab performs in a special holiday festival (heated) tent!

TAB BENOIT: Guitarist-singer Tab Benoit is the real deal. Born and raised on the Louisiana bayou, this self-proclaimed “new kid from the old school” 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. And if dedicating his life to his musical roots weren’t enough, 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. www.tabbenoit.com

SOL DRIVEN TRAIN: Sol Driven Train’s music weaves through genres like images in a Tom Robbins paragraph. The band’s sonic schizophrenia absorbs songwriting influences like John Prine and Paul Simon, afrocaribbean rhythmic explorations, and funky New Orleans-style brass into earnest songs of life, love, loss, and long johns. The versatile 5-piece band, based in Charleston, SC, features rotating lead vocalists, and multi-instrumental talent spread across horns, strings, and percussion. Combining rich varieties of American pop and folk music into their own port-town sound, Sol Driven Train has carved out a unique musical identity within the burgeoning roots music scene. http://soldriventrain.com/

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Food will be available as Tom “Festival” Cimms will be manning the grill and serving up Louisiana specialties. Holiday drink specials will also be on offer throughout December. 

Tickets are $25. Coat check will be available.

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