Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Born and raised in southwest Louisiana, Renée Reed has always been unselfconsciously Cajun.

She grew up on the accordion-bending knee of her grandfather Harry Trahan, in the middle of countless jam sessions at the one-stop Cajun shop owned by her musician parents, Lisa Trahan and Mitch Reed. She was surrounded by a litany of Creole music legends, both backstage at the many festivals of Southwest Louisiana and on the porch of her family home.

Renée voraciously explored beyond her cultural roots. She dove into a broad spectrum of 60s folk and attended Richard Thompson's masterclass camp in the Catskills outside of Woodstock, New York. She developed an affinity for outsider art, animation, and puppetry. At around the same time Renée started writing her own songs she discovered Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, and yé-yé. What might seem incidental to some, encountering French in this way was a revelation to Renée and began to forge a bridge between her many influences.