Louisiana Crossroads

The storied music series featuring Louisiana's most compelling artists. The Acadiana Center for the Arts presents special one-night-only concerts in the James Devin Moncus Theater featuring two or more artists with a musical connection that ties back to Louisiana. The show includes an on-stage interview with the series’ host and curator to help tell the story of the artists, representing traditional and contemporary music alike.

Thursday, November 9
Les Hay Babies
James Devin Moncus Theatre
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Les Hay Babies are the regeneration of their Acadian culture; they make us travel with their songs strewn with old words and current images. The three young women hailing from New Brunswick will make you feel the familiarity and warmth of their little corner of the country.

Thursday, December 14
Leyla McCalla
James Devin Moncus Theatre
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There are more questions than answers on Leyla McCalla’s remarkable new album, Breaking The Thermometer. What does democracy look like? Who does it work for? How long can it last? On its surface, the record explores the legacy of Radio Haiti—Haiti’s first radio station to report the news in Haitian Kreyòl, the voice of the people—as well as the journalists who risked and lost their lives to broadcast it for nearly 50 years. But on a more fundamental level, the collection is a deeply personal reckoning with memory and identity, with the roles of artists and activists and immigrants in modern society, with the very notion of storytelling itself.