Dear friends and music lovers,

Please join the Occasional Cajun Band for our gig at the Rose Bowl. That will be this coming Sunday, July 14 from 4:00 to 6:00PM. We’ll be featuring our special guest Tom Martin. Here is a brief bio about Tom.

From St. Louis, multi-instrumentalist Tom Martin plays piano, button accordion, and piano accordion. He’s currently a member of the Southside Creole Playboys, a band that plays traditional Cajun and Creole music in the St. Louis area. From about 1995 to 2010, Tom was a member of Gumbohead and they played a terrific mix of Cajun, Zydeco and tunes from many New Orleans-based bands. Tom’s influences include Professor Longhair, Marcia Ball, Boozoo Chavis, Steve Riley and others.

So at the gig on July 14, expect a big mix of Cajun and Zydeco tunes as usual but we will be asking Tom to play some straight-up New Orleans piano classics. This should be fun and I hope to see some of you there.

Rob