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The House of Bishops
Zydeco Show and Blues Revue!

314-249-5908

Zydeco (French: "les haricots"
or "le zaricot", English: "green
beans" or "snap beans") is a form
of American roots music. It
evolved in southwest Louisiana in
the early 19th century from forms
of Creole music. The rural black
Creoles of southwest Louisiana
and southeast Texas still sing and
play this music.

Usually fast tempo and dominated
by the button or piano accordion
and a form of a washboard known
as a "rub-board," "scrub-board,"
"wash-board," or frottoir, zydeco
music was originally created at
house dances, where families and
friends gathered for socializing.

Blues is the name given to both a
musical form and genre that
originated in African-American
communities of the Deep South at
the end of the 19th century from
spirituals, work songs, field
hollers, shouts and chants, and
rhymed simple narrative ballads.
The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz,
rhythm and blues and rock and roll
is characterized by specific chord
progressions, of which the
twelve-barblues chord
progression is the most common.
The blue notes that, for
expressive purposes, are sung or
played flattened or gradually bent
(minor 3rd to major 3rd) in relation
to the pitch of the major scale, are
also an important part of the sound.