Monday January 19, 2009 Source:UW Union Theater Location: Madison, WI
Playing piano since age 9, Buckwheat Zydeco rose to fame in 1984 with “Zydeco Boogaloo,” one of the genre’s signature songs. He will be performing in a dance party in the Great Hall at the Memorial Union on Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $28 for the general public, $26 for WAA members, Union members, UW faculty and staff, and non-UW students. As always, UW-Students are only $10! Tickets can be purchased by phone (608-265-ARTS), by fax (608-265-5084), by mail or in person at the box office (Wisconsin Union Theater, 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706) or online at http://uniontheater.wisc.edu/.
An exciting performer and expert keyboards and accordion player, Buckwheat is an innovator who crafted a bold new sound for zydeco, the music of the Creole, French-speaking Blacks of Louisiana. In addition to his well-received innovations, Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr. is a pioneer in many ways. He is the first zydeco artist to have been signed to a major record label, the first to have launched his own record label, the first to perform on a national television show, the first to release a children’s album, and the first zydeco artist to win an Emmy award! Most lately, he recorded two Bob Dylan songs with Yo La Tengo for the 2007 film “I’m not there.”
Buckwheat’s performance doubles up as a dance party in Great Hall. Special Louisiana food and drinks will be available for purchase.
Sponsors include the Wisconsin Union Directorate. Support is also given by the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Wisconsin Union Theater Endowment Fund. Media sponsors are Maximum Ink, The Onion and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Higher Ground.
Monday June 16, 2008 Source:Zude.com Location: Milwaukee, WI
Zude™.com, the social computing platform that provides users an unprecedented level of freedom and design customization, announced today the launch of the online community for Summerfest, “The World’s Largest Summer Music Festival,” attracting nearly 900,000 fans.
In conjunction with the eleven-day festival, to be held in Milwaukee June 26-July 6, Zude.com will auction off three Summerfest packages. Auction proceeds will go to the Foundation Fighting Blindness. The auction, beginning today and running through June 23rd, is being managed by Kompolt online auction agency (www.kompolt.com).
Summerfest selected Zude.com as the platform for its online community. Dubbed “Summerfest Nation” (www.zude.com/Summerfest), the community is designed to help festival attendees make the most of their Summerfest experience. Summerfest Nation features a variety of useful information, such as car pool details, hints to compete in the event’s scavenger hunt, festival shopping guides, as well as everything a fan would need to know about the bands and their music. Zude.com is also giving away free concert tickets to the first 2000 fans to sign up for Summerfest Nation.
Two eBay auctions, sponsored by Zude, will award winners VIP concert packages, including hotel accommodations, tickets and backstage passes to see either The Crystal Method or Filter. In a third eBay auction, the winning bidder and three friends will receive a private behind-the-scenes tour of the 75-acre Summerfest grounds, four general admission tickets, a collectors’ book titled 40 Years of Summerfest, and other festival memorabilia. For more information, please go to www.ebay.com/SummerfestNation.
“We’re thrilled to be playing Summerfest, but especially excited to play a part in raising money for the Foundation Fighting Blindness,” said Ken Jordan, lead DJ of The Crystal Method. “This Foundation helps thousands of people each year, funding research to help find treatments and cures for a number of leading causes of blindness.”
