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American Routes
American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical. Now in our 15th year on the air, American Routes explores the shared musical and cultural threads in these American styles and genres of music — and how they are distinguished.
It’s the best of American Routes Live–studio concerts and conversation in collaboration with the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park–including Creole banjoist and songman Don Vappie, New Orleans’s king of the jazz trumpet Kermit Ruffins, and an acoustic set from Rickie Lee Jones. Then, we return for the second part of our live set celebrating the music of the legendary Cajun band Beausoleil, lead by fiddler Michael Doucet with family and friends in their 50th year playing Louisiana French folk and popular music locally and globally… all in front of a packed hometown house in Lafayette, Louisiana!
