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Louisiana Cajun and roots band The Revelers made their musical intentions clear for their debut performance at this year’s Redwood Coast Music Festival.
“Our goal is to be the ultimate Southwest Louisiana jukebox,” said Revelers’ fiddle player Daniel Coolik. “We always want to play dance music. We play for the people and not ourselves.”
The festival takes place Oct. 2 to 5. There will be eight Eureka stages, including the Adorni Center, Eagle House, Eureka Theater, Red Lion, the Eureka Veterans Building, Sequoia Center, the Morris Graves Museum of Art and at the Gazebo on Second Street. For more information about the festival, lodging and tickets, go to rcmfest.org.
The Revelers will play two sets at the festival: Oct. 3 at 8:30 p.m. at the Adorni Center and on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in the Eureka Theater.
Coolik has played with the Lafayette, Louisiana-based band since its inception in 2011. The priority on playing dance music has resulted in the band’s steady regional and touring schedule. Coolik said the band generally tours for two weeks and then takes two weeks off. Their tours often include forays to New Brunswick, Canada home to Acadia where the original Acadians settled after coming from France in the 1600s.
Many Acadians eventually moved to the Lafayette and created the highly danceable “Cajun” music. The musical foundation of the six-piece Revelers is Cajun music, but Coolik said they play a much wider spectrum of dance music. They call it swamp pop.
“It’s a term created in Southwest Louisiana that refers to the rhythm and blues of our region from the late 1960s,” Coolik said. “It’s great dance music.”
The band features fiddle, accordion, saxophone, electric guitar, bass and drums. Each year, they play the prestigious and huge New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
“We’ve developed our own sound,” Coolik said. “Everyone in the band writes songs and we play covers, too.”
The band is also popular in the northeastern United States, the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest, including Vancouver Island. The group is getting ready to release its third album.
“Since our first album we’ve figured out how to make stuff work,” Coolik said. “We know where we are going. We’ve grown into ourselves.”
The Revelers are also deeply involved with the Black Pot Festival musical and cultural festival held every October in Eunice, Louisiana, an hour from Lafayette. The band’s drummer, Glenn Fields, has been its organizer since the beginning. The camp and festival incorporates cooking, dancing and music classes, as well as a wide-ranging music festival.
Coolik was a part of the deep Ashville, North Carolina music scene before he moved to Lafayette at age 27. Now 44, he said some members of the band now have families, but they are committed to playing together.
“We’d like to this for a long time,” Coolik said.
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