Caitlin Cary, Savoy Doucet Cajun Band to swing Ipas’s Rock for Reproductive Rights

28.11.2008 On Saturday, December 6th, Ipas supporters will break out their dancing shoes and kick off the holiday season at the Rock for Reproductive Rights benefit concert at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC.

The 2008 lineup brings together a North Carolina favorite with national legends. The evening will begin with a mix of rock, country and folk blended in the music of Caitlin Cary. Cary is a veteran of the alt country favorite Whiskeytown and a founding member of folk trio Tres Chicas; her most recent album is a duet with Thad Cockerell, “Begonias.” This will be the second time Caitlin has leant her voice to Ipas’s cause – Tres Chicas mesmerized the audience during the 2005 Rock for Reproductive Rights.

During the second set, traditional Cajun music gets a contemporary treatment from the legendary Savoy Doucet Cajun Band. The Savoy Doucet band brings together three of the country’s most influential guardians and promoters of Cajun music, Michael Doucet, the Grammy award-winning lead singer and fiddler from Beausoleil, and Ann and Marc Savoy, both celebrated Louisiana musicians. Both Doucet and Marc Savoy are recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts – the highest honor in U.S. folk and traditional arts. Ann Savoy is a Grammy-nominated producer who has appeared in many documentaries on the subject of Cajun music, most recently the PBS series “American Roots Music,” and with her husband was the subject of Les Blank’s film, Marc and Ann.