Michael Doucet is a Cajun fiddler, singer, and songwriter living in Lafayette, Louisiana. His music combines elements of zydeco, New Orleans jazz, Tex-Mex, country, and blues. He performs regularly with his band BeauSoleil (recipients of a Grammy Award in 1998) and the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band. Doucet is a treasured artist, historian, and educator, and in 2005 he was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts.*

For more information, visit www.lsue.edu/acadgate/music/mdoucet.htm.

*The NEA National Heritage Fellowship program, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007-08, is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts presented with support from the Darden Restaurants Foundation and the Darden family of restaurants including Red Lobster and Olive Garden.