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Open Thread - 7-14-23 - Zydeco Party

What is zydeco music? Wikipedia says this.

Now, that tells you kinda what to expect your ears to hear, but neglects to tell you what your eyes see, and your how your heart fills with passion and love.

On the last day of my vacation we went to a bar/restaurant on Taylor Bayou at LaBelle, Texas, near Beaumont, to listen to Leroy Thomas and the Zydeco Roadrunners at the Pine Tree Lodge. Listen to music, feed the gators, the usual stuff, was the plan. We got there early, scored a table ate a slow lunch, and by 2pm., the place was packed, standing room only, and the band started playing. Except, the leader of the band, the star, could be heard, but not seen. You could hear him playing the squeezebox along with the band, but there was no LeRoy. Hmmm...Well, his grand entrance was to hook up his accordion to blue tooth allowing him to make his approach to the dock via a swamp air boat from down the bayou! He got off onto the deck of the restaurant without missing a beat, wandered through the crowd, made his way to the stage, and the crowd went wild, stayed wild for the next 4 hours.

We sang and celebrated everything from love, crawfish, dancin', and the leader of the band pointed out the oldest person in the place, a 94 yr old woman, and he dropped his accordion, grabbed her hand, danced, and just begged us to honor her for her time and life on earth. Then, he resumed singing, playing using his accordion as his dance partner.

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Sunday Open Thread: September 24th is National Punctuation Day !!

World History this day
0622 -- Muhammad and his followers completed their Hijra from Mecca to Medina
1674 -- The second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, an early Indian nationalist
1932 -- Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agreed to the Poona Pact
1948 -- The Honda Motor Company was founded