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Vasona Vibrations Concert, Andre Thierry, 6/30/18 by Ronald Horii
Vasona Vibrations is a very popular free summer concert series at Vasona Lake County Park in Los Gatos. It is organized by South Bay Folks, who pick the acts that perform:
http://vasonavibrations.org/
The performers volunteer their time to perform. The concerts benefit Second Harvest Food Bank. https://www.shfb.org/
Today's concert featured Andre Thierry. He has been performing at Vasona Vibrations for many years and is a crowd favorite. This was his concert last year at Vasona: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1467239989966185.1073742224.100000405933924&type=1&l=ba694863bb
It was well-attended, but this year's audience looked bigger. His concerts draw some of the biggest crowds. Estimates ranged from 500-600 attendees for today's concert.
This is how South Bay Folks describes Andre Thierry:
Grammy-nominated Andre Thierry was born and raised in Northern California, but his French Creole heritage is deeply rooted in Louisiana. He grew up with the French Creole ("la-la") dances that his grandparents held at their church parish, St. Mark's Catholic Church. The best zydeco musicians Louisiana had to offer would travel to California to play at these dances. It was that exposure which led to his love for traditional French Creole music.
By age twelve, Andre had formed his own band, "Zydeco Magic". Self-taught, Andre's repertoire grew by leaps and bounds as he was regularly invited to play with visiting bands, such as the late John Delafose and many local Zydeco and Cajun bands, including the late Danny Poullard (California Cajun Orchestra).
Today, playing with a force few can match, the award-winning musician and his band effortlessly deliver energetic performances with electrifying sounds, fun dance breaks, and accordion soul that have captured the attention of music lovers all over the world. The Washington Post called Andre:
"A master at pumping out fast, funky rhythms on an instrument not usually associated with earthy syncopation. A versatile student of the music, Thierry can't be lumped into Zydeco's old-school R&B-influenced camp or its nouveau, rap-inspired one: He and his band, lay down both soulful, traditional slow-dances and bottom-end-booming kinetic grooves."
Here are future performances by Andre Thierry: https://www.andrethierry.com/shows
Vasona Vibrations is a very popular free summer concert series at Vasona Lake County Park in Los Gatos. It is organized by South Bay Folks, who pick the acts that perform:
http://vasonavibrations.org/
The performers volunteer their time to perform. The concerts benefit Second Harvest Food Bank. https://www.shfb.org/
Today's concert featured Andre Thierry. He has been performing at Vasona Vibrations for many years and is a crowd favorite. This was his concert last year at Vasona: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1467239989966185.1073742224.100000405933924&type=1&l=ba694863bb
It was well-attended, but this year's audience looked bigger. His concerts draw some of the biggest crowds. Estimates ranged from 500-600 attendees for today's concert.
This is how South Bay Folks describes Andre Thierry:
Grammy-nominated Andre Thierry was born and raised in Northern California, but his French Creole heritage is deeply rooted in Louisiana. He grew up with the French Creole ("la-la") dances that his grandparents held at their church parish, St. Mark's Catholic Church. The best zydeco musicians Louisiana had to offer would travel to California to play at these dances. It was that exposure which led to his love for traditional French Creole music.
By age twelve, Andre had formed his own band, "Zydeco Magic". Self-taught, Andre's repertoire grew by leaps and bounds as he was regularly invited to play with visiting bands, such as the late John Delafose and many local Zydeco and Cajun bands, including the late Danny Poullard (California Cajun Orchestra).
Today, playing with a force few can match, the award-winning musician and his band effortlessly deliver energetic performances with electrifying sounds, fun dance breaks, and accordion soul that have captured the attention of music lovers all over the world. The Washington Post called Andre:
"A master at pumping out fast, funky rhythms on an instrument not usually associated with earthy syncopation. A versatile student of the music, Thierry can't be lumped into Zydeco's old-school R&B-influenced camp or its nouveau, rap-inspired one: He and his band, lay down both soulful, traditional slow-dances and bottom-end-booming kinetic grooves."
Here are future performances by Andre Thierry: https://www.andrethierry.com/shows
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