One of the most prominent torchbearers of Louisiana zydeco music, Grammy-winning New Orleans legend Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural continues to tour and record well into his 60s. His long-running, finely tuned group of musicians is dubbed Buckwheat Zydeco and the Ils Sont Partis Band, though they’re known to the masses as simply Buckwheat Zydeco. The band’s most recent album, 2009’s Lay Your Burden Down, features several Dural originals, as well as zippy, soulful versions of tunes by Bruce Springsteen, Gov’t Mule, JJ Grey and even Captain Beefheart himself, Don Van Vliet. The accordion master and his highly capable cast of supporting characters will hit The Foundry this weekend.
8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). thefoundryathens.com
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