LSUE Performing Arts presents Kyle Huval and Dixie Club Ramblers

LSUE Performing Arts presents Kyle Huval and the Dixie Club Ramblers at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 20 in the auditorium of the Health Tech building (nurses building).
Admission is free and donations are accepted. Tickets available at the door one hour before the performance.
To highlight local talent, and as part of the Experience Louisiana weekend, Kyle Huval is a native of Eunice, and a graduate of LSUE. He is a high school history teacher in Acadiana.
Huval, 25, came to learn the accordion at age 10 over another more traditional instrument is somewhat prosaic. It was the one instrument his family owned. “I had always wanted to play guitar, but we didn’t have a guitar and my parents couldn’t afford a guitar,” Huval said.“That’s what I learned on.“
Living in Eunice, Huval and his band, the Dixie Club Ramblers, play traditional Cajun music that sets dancers twirling. “We take the older things and we add a lot of energy, a lot of rhythm, a lot of youth,” Huval explains.
The group derives its name from Huval’s own history, his grandparents owned the legendary Dixie Club near Eunice. Helping him keep the traditional Cajun sound alive are a number of great musicians, including fiddlers Brandon Moreau and Robin Bruck-Tiralla, along with drummer Cody LaFleur and Beth Fogelman on guitar.
Where younger musicians might explore modern sounds and weave those into tradition to create something more progressive, Huval and the Dixie Club Ramblers have no intention of straying far from form. If anything, they draw on legends like Austin Pitre, Aldous Roger and the Balfa Brothers to lead their way.
“We stick whole stone to what we do,” Huval said. “We love what we do and people know us for that now. We don’t want to let those people down.”