Raucous dancehall tunes, heart-rending ballads, and ridiculous nonsense, liberally spiced with fiery intrumental breaks and warm, congenial humor: the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band present the full spectrum of traditional Cajun life, transforming the Freight stage to a screened-in bayou porch for the evening with their down-home style and amazing virtuosity. In the trio, Marc Savoy provides invigorating traditional accordion work, Michael Doucet adds incendiary fiddling, and Ann Savoy holds everything together with her sure-fingered rhythm guitar and earthy, passionate vocals. Not only are the band members acclaimed musicians (Marc won a National Heritage Fellowship in 1982, Michael also plays with Fiddlers 4 and Grammy winners Beausoleil, and Ann appeared in the film and soundtrack of last year's "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood"), they're also authorities on southwest Louisiana history. The trio adds further depth to their shows by providing glimpses into Cajun culture, demonstrating the evolution of Cajun music through early French ballads and double fiddle-triangle numbers, and peppering performances with anecdotes and translations of song lyrics. On albums like their 2002 Arhoolie release, The Best of the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band and in performance, Savoy-Doucet presents the true soul of Cajun music-and defies listeners to remain chair-bound!