Swallow Hill Music & Northglenn Arts PRESENT

BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet

March 7, 2026 | 7:30 PM

About BeauSoleil

For the past 50 years, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. Born out of the rich Acadian ancestry of its members, and created and driven by bandleader Michael Doucet’s spellbinding fiddle playing and soulful vocals, BeauSoleil is notorious for bringing even the most staid audience to its feet. BeauSoleil’s distinctive sound derives from the distilled spirits of New Orleans jazz, blues rock,folk, swamp pop, Zydeco, country and bluegrass, captivating listeners from the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, to Carnegie Hall, then all the way across the pond to Richard Thompson’s Meltdown Festival in England.

Their most recent album and the 25th in their 45-year career, was titled “From Bamako to Carencro,” alluding the cultural and migratory connection between Bamako, in Mali, West Africa,and Louisiana (symbolized in name by the Lafayette, LA suburb of Carencro), a connection that draws a sonic bloodline back to BeauSoleil’s roots. Since becoming the first Cajun band to win a GRAMMY with “L’amour Ou La Folie” (their Traditional Folk Album – 1998) and then a second Grammy in 2010, “Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival”, BeauSoleil has garnered many accolades, including twelve GRAMMY nominations. They are regular guests on Garrison Keillor’s NPR show A Prairie Home Companion, where Keillor has dubbed them as “the best Cajun band in the world,” and their music is so integral to the Cajun culture that they have been featured on the New Orleans–based hit HBO program “Treme”. Critics unanimously agree that it is “bon temps, every time they play,” (New York Times).

In addition to their show, Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet created their own Christmas performance,“14 Cajun Christmas”. A detour from the routine path of holiday musical fare, “14 Cajun Christmas” presents his beloved ensemble performing selections from their rich catalog alongside Bayou flavored versions of classic holiday tunes. Expect both the familiar and some surprises for a ”cool-yule” of an evening!

Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!

NORTHGLENN ARTS STAFF

Michael Stricker – Executive Producer

Patrick Berger – Artistic Producer

Dan Mori – Technical Director

Wren Tran Ryder – Asst Technical Director

Veronica Legler – Production Stage Manager

Terra Mueller – Marketing Manager

Maggie Sapyta – Marketing Assistant

Kimberly Jongejan – Theatre Programs

PATRON SERVICES

Victoria Caraballo, Ana Guzman, Kendra Layne, Olivia McCurdy

Linda Symack, Ken Lassiter, Fatima Totten

ABOUT SWALLOW HILL MUSIC:

Founded in 1979, Swallow Hill Music is a Denver-based nonprofit organization with a mission to build community through music performance, education, and outreach. Swallow Hill is a music school and performance venue that also produces community events throughout the Denver metro region. It is an SCFD organization. Swallow Hill is also a recipient of both the Mayor’s and the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and an inductee of the Colorado Music Hall of Fame and Folk Alliance International’s Business Lifetime Achievement awards. For more information visit www.swallowhillmusic.org. 

Upcoming Shows:

Screening of Buster Keaton’s “Go West” presented in partnership with Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra

Buster Keaton takes Horace Greeley’s advice and heads west, where he finds work on a cattle ranch. He befriends a young milk cow, and they look after each other as he learns the ropes and lassos of ranch life. But when the cattle train ends up at the wrong station, Buster finds he must get the entire herd across Los Angeles by himself.

Rodney from Mont Alto said “We’ve got a new score, there’s beautiful video, and it’s a very entertaining film.”

Catered lunch is offered at the 10am showing. 

March 25 at 10am & 7:30pm

Tickets

Little Women – Phamaly Theatre Company