Why play zydeco? "It think it's because I grew up listening to this type of music," Louisiana's Rosie Ledet, the "zydeco sweetheart," says, relaxing on a couch before she and her group Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys hit the boards at the Narrows Friday night. "My parents were always singing it and playing it around the house," she says. "I'm Creole French, you know, so it's heritage music."
Not a way to get rich, but "I'm just glad I'm not a shrimper from home now," she adds, referencing the BP oil disaster.
No doubt the audience Friday night also felt glad she's not a shrimper, as they stepped smartly to Rosie's heritage.
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