Buckwheat Zydeco at WMNF Heatwave Festival, Cuban Club Tampa 2000
Buckwheat Zydeco is the stage name of Stanley Dural, who heads up a hard-rocking Zydeco band from Louisiana. WMNF Heatwave is an annual music festival held in Ybor City, Tampa to benefit WMNF community radio. This video was aired as part of "Video Cafe No. 27" community access television show in Oct 2000. Bright House Community Access was channel 96 out of Clearwater Florida and reached about 250,000 homes. Cable Access was killed by the Pinellas County Commissioners in 2007 supposedly to satisfy budget cuts.
About Buckwheat Zydeco
Buckwheat Zydeco (born Stanley Dural Jr.; November 14, 1947 – September 24, 2016), was an American accordionist and zydeco musician. He was one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music group was formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Sont Partis Band ("Ils Sont Partis" being French for "They have left," or a race announcer's "And they're off!"), but they often performed as merely Buckwheat Zydeco. The New York Times said: "Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the...
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