Dirk Powell is Acadiana’s musical Renaissance man. See where he’s playing on Friday.

In music, Dirk Powell does just about anything that can be done.

He’s a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. He’s a producer and recording engineer. He’s a valued sideman on the stage and in the studio.

A member of roots music star Rhiannon Giddens’ band since 2015, Powell performed alongside Joan Baez for a decade, until the folk music star stopped touring in 2019. His other performance and/or recording work includes Eric Clapton, the Raconteurs, Loretta Lynn, Linda Ronstadt and Irma Thomas’ Grammy-winning, recorded-in-Acadiana, post-Hurricane Katrina album, “After the Rain.”…

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