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How a family legacy sparked a tribute to the King of Zydeco

Summary by The Current
About three years ago, Cajun multi-instrumentalist Joel Savoy played a show at Ashkenaz Dancehall in Berkeley, California, when someone approached him with an unexpected proposition. “John Leopold, who was the interim director of the Arhoolie Foundation, came up to me at a gig and said, ‘Hey, I’d like you to co-produce a tribute to Clifton Chenier with Steve Berlin of Los Lobos on Valcour Records,’” Savoy remembers. “It almost knocked me off my …
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The Current broke the news in on Sunday, July 27, 2025.
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