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PLANETE FOLLE-
Cajun/Zydeco Music FAT TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 28, 2006 from 9:00 pm– 1:00 am The
Cat's Eye Pub
The
occasion will be Crazy Planet’s 25th anniversary musician
reunion show! BROADSIDES & RETROSPECTIVES A 19 song collection of the “Best of Vic Sadot’s Crazy Planet & Planète Folle Bands” plus 6 new songs and 2 unreleased previous recordings. Five of the songs are poems by Jean-Henri Sadot, father of Vic & Rob Sadot, set to music. Three of those who rendered two JHS poems to music are guest singers and musicians on the CD. Vic plays back-up with other American musicians while Frenchmen Lionel Bernard & Jérôme Panier present The Statue of Liberty. Dean A. Banks delivers a beautiful rendition of A Little Girl’s Bedtime. Two songs were recorded long ago and never released: Broadside Balladeer and Respect For the Road. This CD is not traditional Cajun/Zydeco like the 1997 Comin’ Home CD. This is all original folk, rock, and blues, and one reggae: Need To Know… and one Spanish song: Recuerdo de los Pireneos. Noteworthy new topical songs that we hope you will request on your favorite radio stations: Mad Cowboy Disease and Are You A Citizen. In Newark we suggest WVUD (University of Delaware, 91.3 FM) Their request line is 302.831.2701. VIC SADOT SOLO- Acoustic Folk Rock Solo Act An Intimate Concert with Singer/Songwriter Vic Sadot Vic Sadot was born in Ridley Park, PA in 1947, and he grew up in Newark, DE. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1969 with a BA in Political Science. That’s when Vic bought a guitar and moved to Washington, DC. He began writing topical songs on the Watergate scandal and got some radio airplay on a nationally syndicated show called “In the Public Interest”. Since the 1970’s, Vic has been a prolific singer/songwriter in the Philadelphia to Baltimore/Washington, DC area. He is probably best known these days as the singer and 10 button accordion player in his Cajun/Zydeco band known as “Planète Folle” (Crazy Planet in French). These days Vic has looked back into his musical roots and organized an intimate and engaging solo/duo act that could gain him more recognition as a singer/songwriter. Original songs like “The Harbor of Love” and “Comin’ Thru” are truly romantic songs that have not been part of his band repertoires. Many of these original songs came out of the influence of the “60’s folk revival” led by such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, and Vic’s favorite of them all, Phil Ochs. Vic had the honor of meeting and interviewing Phil for WGTB radio of Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 1973. You will find several of the songs of this era in Vic’s new solo/duo show. They are the ones that have stood the test of time, such as Phil’s hauntingly beautiful “Changes”. New songs written just days before a show are often thrown into Vic’s mix as well.
Another rich source of songs for Vic Sadot has been the poems
by his father Jean-Henri, his brother Joe Sadot, and George
Reuter, a family friend. Vic has put music to “White Clay
Creek”, “Autumn’s Coming Down”, and
“The Fog Watch on Limestone Road”. There is a rich
harvest of roots material from these sources. In keeping with
this tradition, Vic wrote a poetic song tribute to his mother
and the area where she grew up. It is called “The Rugged
Hills of Landenberg”. These songs are part of a 16 song
CD collection of local folk songs under the title of Songs of
the Seasons. WVUD has a copy in it’s library if you should
like to request a song by calling the DJ at 302-831-2701. Vic went on to form the Crazy Planet Band,, an original folk/rock/blues act with his youngest brother, Rob Sadot on electric guitar. Their first professional show was at the Deer Park Tavern in Newark, Delaware in 1979. They released Good Time Delaware, a 45, in 1985, and they released an LP titled Ride the Wind in 1988. In 1992 Vic traveled throughout southwestern Louisiana to explore the French music of that area. He came back so enthusiastic about the music that he changed Crazy Planet into a Cajun/Zydeco band with a French name of the same meaning, “Planète Folle”. In 1997 they released a well received 16 song CD called Comin’ Home. There are original and traditional songs from all of these projects that work well into Vic’s solo show. All in all, this is a gentle and soulful tour de force that spans a wide range of subjects and sentiments! NO CURRENT BOOKINGS- Call (302) 836-1617 or email vasyvic@aol.com. BAYOU WEDDING BAND- Call (302) 836-1617 for more information. Vic
Sadot’s “Planète Folle” Band
In addition to the “sweet Cajun soul mixed with hot Zydeco pepper” that has gained the band widespread recognition, you can also have wedding classics like “Can’t Help Falling in Love”, “Beyond the Sea”, and “Stand By Me”. You may also want to engage the services of a band that can get your guests to cut the rug on such Rock & Roll favorites as “Mustang Sally”, “Sugar Bee”, and “Rock Me Baby”. Our master of piano accordion, Mike Reynolds, could bring such instrumental wedding classics as “Tarantella”, “Sunrise, Sunset”, and “Hava Nagila” to make your reception an even more memorable occasion. Guitar man Monty Cullum sings great versions of songs like “Brown Eyed Girl”, Margaritaville”, and “Many Rivers to Cross”. Legendary Nashville sessions drummer, Chris Sherlock, and the enormously talented Sam Chic will have your guests moving to their steady and irresistible rhythms. Do you want to hire the expanded band? Planète Folle Band tends to be a 5 piece band: Vic on lead vocals, Cajun accordion or guitar or scrub board; Mike Reynolds on piano accordion, guitar or scrub board; Monty Cullum on electric guitar; Sam Chic on bass; and Chris Sherlock on drums. Wedding budgets tend to pay well enough to expand the band a little or a lot. That gives us the opportunity to hire a saxophone, fiddle, or scrub board player to the mix. We can only do this BIG "Bayou Wedding Band" with sufficient advance time and a contractual agreement. Such professional players book themselves with other bands. So we need sufficient advance time to secure their services. And if you want the hottest band possible, then you may want to consider how they add so much to the sound and atmosphere. Wedding bookings require a contract and a 50% deposit that will not be refunded if the wedding is cancelled or the date is changed and we are unavailable. We do this because we are reserving that date exclusively for you, because of past experience with verbal contracts, and because we may have to pass on other attractive offers that might along. TRADITIONAL CAJUN TRIO ACT- I am currently looking for musicians for this act. Only serious and committed applicants need apply. Call (302) 836-1617 for more information.
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