Week 1
Cajun/Creole Week
Zydeco Dance Party
Christy Leichty & Jim Phillips

Christy Leichty and Jim Phillips live in rural St. Landry Parish, Louisiana and are familiar faces in the Southwest Louisiana dance scene, especially since winning a zydeco dance contest at The Creole Culture Family Festival at Vermillionville in 1994.   Just the other day, at a welding shop in Opelousas, Louisiana, Jim was reminded about that long ago event by one of the Creole welders. He called Jim "Zydeco Man."  People in Louisiana love to see and have a long memory for dancers enjoying themselves and letting their hair down on the dance floor.  Christy and Jim simply love that Southwest Louisiana music. Zydeco or Cajun, it's all French music to them.  And, they can't stop moving to that chank-a-chank and funky syncopation.