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Better Than Ezra will headline the third-annual free-admission Best of the Bayou Festival’s music lineup, which organizers announced on Monday
Lining downtown Houma’s Main Street, Best of the Bayou III is scheduled for Sept. 28-29. Other notable acts amid a list of 15 organizers revealed include Baby Bee, Rebirth Brass Band, Flow Tribe, Amanda Shaw and Jonathan Boogie Long.
“Better Than Ezra is somebody we’ve been trying to get since year one, because they’re quite a draw here in Houma and they have some local flavor,” said Dave Norman, co-chair of the festival’s entertainment committee and music critic for the Gumbo Entertainment Guide.
Better Than Ezra’s 2010 concert sponsored by Coastal Commerce Bank in downtown Houma drew a tremendous crowd. Based in New Orleans and founded at Louisiana State University, the high-energy, alternative-rock trio is most known for its No. 1 hit “Good” on the 1993 album “Deluxe,” which went platinum.
BTE two weeks ago released the single “Crazy Lucky,” its first new music since the 2011 EP “Death Valley.” The band’s last full-length album was “Paper Empire” in 2009, the same year co-founding drummer Travis McNabb left the band to join the country-music supergroup Sugarland.
Best of the Bayou is meant to flaunt the area’s tourism potential and give a forum for its arts and cuisine, with the musicians on hand serving as the magnet.
Filling out the preliminary lineup, regional acts like Bag of Donuts, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas are complemented by local talent including Chaos of the Cosmos, Treater, RH Sound Factor, The Lewinskys, Soul Survivors and the Houma-Terrebonne Community Band.
More acts should be finalized soon, Norman said.
“The BoB committee is extremely pleased with this year’s lineup,” Norman said. “From the headlining Better Than Ezra to Terrebonne’s favorite swamp rockers, Treater, we’ve got top-drawer talent. … We’re hoping to have record turnouts this year, and with strong lineup (and soon to be stronger) we have a real good shot at that.”
Best of the Bayou will accept entries for its annual poster-design contest, which awards the winning artist $250, through June 27. Entries must convey original art and be on a canvas 16 inches wide by 20 inches high. For more information visit bestofthebayou.org.
