For everyone else, Aug. 30-31 is Labor Day weekend. For zydeco music fans, these are holy days of festival obligation.
Seismic cultural shifts take root that weekend. St. Landry Parish and the surrounding countryside serve as the soil, where generations of accordion-playing families were born and continue to live.
The Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music planted the seed in 1982. The Treasures of Opelousas, a social group affiliated with Holy Ghost Catholic Church, were concerned that the music’s pioneers were dying…