Events

For the Bayou works with musicians and artists that support restoration and preservation of Louisiana’s wetlands.  In working with these artists, we hope to educate fans on the importance of our nation’s biggest coastal wetlands, and to help preserve this environment, its culture and its people for many generations to come.

See our list below for some amazing local legends pumping out great Louisiana roots music and swampland jam while crusading for Louisiana’s coast and its wetlands.

Photo © Nell Campbell

FEATURED ARTIST

Stanton Moore - acclaimed drummer for Galactic and the Stanton Moore Trio - is a passionate advocate for the wetlands. Galactic played the Fillmore in SF recently for 2 sold-out nights.

Here’s what he writes:

Even though New Orleans is rebuilding, we are still very vulnerable to future storms. Please click below to send a letter to President Obama, asking him to take action and help save our coast, New Orleans, Jazz fest, Mardi Gras, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast!!! http://action.healthygulf.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=310

CALIFORNIA

Blue Bear School of Music - Live V Benefit Concert
TROMBONE SHORTY, ZIGABOO MODELISTE & MORE
San Francisco - Bimbos 365 Club
Friday, May 14, 2010
Join For the Bayou in supporting Blue Bear School of Music for the annual benefit supporting youth music education serving over 600 under served San Francisco Bay Area youth.  Featuring a night of New Orleans super stars, Trombone Shorty, Zigaboo Modeliste and more.  Click for tickets and details!

7th ANNUAL “SF CRAWFISH BOIL”
San Francisco - Crissy Field
Saturday.  June 12, 2010
Two Southern boys with too much reminiscing about crawfish boils back home has led to the biggest crawfish feed in the Bay Area.  Join us this year as they rope in For the Bayou to make this feed a philanthropy.  We are happy to join and assist them in making this 7th Annual the biggest and most successful crawfish boil outside of Louisiana.   Click for details!

LOUISIANA

2010 is jam packed with action for Louisiana and its wetlands.  Volunteer to plant with the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana if you plan a trip to the Big Easy or join the Voice of the Wetlands during Jazz Fest while they raise awareness and funds for restoration projects!

• WE ARE...

  • for the alligators, for the brown pelicans, for the white pelicans, for the speckled trout, for the red drum, for the black drum, for the sac-au-lait, for the snapping turtles, for the cypress, for the mangroves, for the bald eagles, for the silver seatrout, for the sand seatrout, for the tricolored heron, for the great blue heron, for the reddish egret, for the green heron, for the woodstork, for the little blue heron, for the hooked mussel, for the blue crab, for the Louisiana oysters, for the choupique, for the brown shrimp, for white shrimp, for the Gulf menhaden “pogy”, for the gulf kingfish, for the southern kingfish, for the squid, for the pink shrimp, for the rock shrimp, for the alligator gar, for the marsh deer, for the crawfish, for the snapper, for the tarpon, for the blue, flathead and channel catfish, for the buffalo fish, for the crappie, for the shad, for the pallad, Atlantic and shovelnose sturgeon, for the paddlefish, for the pink flamingos, for the mallards, for the Canada goose, for the teal, for the pintail, for the wigeon, for the poule d’eau, for the grosbec, for the chorook, for the papabotte, for the Louisiana racoons, for the Louisiana black bears, for the garfish, for the beaver, for the muskrat, for the otter, for the mink, for the bobcat, for the opossum, for the rabbit, for the squirrels, for the toads, for the striped mullet, for the silver mullet, for the yellow, white and striped bass, for the bluegill, for the bowfin, for the freshwater drum, for the ling, for the king and Spanish mackerel, for the hawks, for the owls, for the ground orchid, for the hyacinths, for the Louisiana quillwort, for the American chaffseed, for the snails, for the sea turtles, for the snowy egret, for the cattle egret, for the roseate spoonbill, for the night herons, for the great-egret, for the ibises, for the armadillo, for the tree frogs, for the snakes, for the alligator snapping turtles, for the water moccasin, for the canebrake rattlesnake, for the Louisiana blue star, for the southern lady’s-slipper, for the long-sepaled false dragon-head, for the parrot pitcherplant, for the gopher tortoise, for the Louisiana pearlshell mussel, for the red-cockaded woodpecker, for the gulf killifish “cocahoe”, for the sheepshead minnows, for the bay anchovies, for the fiddler crabs, for the Atlantic croaker, for the southern flounder, for the Atlantic sheephead, for the white alligator, for the millions of migratory waterfowl and the thousands of other plants and animals that are rapidly losing habitat in Louisiana’s wetlands, for the Cajuns, for the coast of Louisiana...