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GRAMMY NOMINATION! Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars

 

December 6, 2007 (Lafayette, LA) – Octavia Records proudly announces a Grammy nomination for Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.

This year the Recording Academy has honored Octavia Records recording artist Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars with a Grammy nomination for their 2007 double album release: “The La Louisianne Sessions”.

This is a great year for Octavia Records as “The La Louisianne Sessions” is the label’s first release!  Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars are honored to represent their unique Cajun/Creole culture and heritage with this work.

Octavia Records had this to say upon the announcement, “Octavia is honored to have Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars nominated for a Grammy in the inaugural year of the “Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album” category.  This band has put all heart and soul into making “The La Louisianne Sessions” a beautiful representation of their Lafayette, Louisiana heritage.  We would also like to congratulate the other nominees.” 

Bandleader Roddie Romero states, “It’s going to be incredible. Six of the seven bands are from Lafayette or the surrounding area. It’s Lafayette music. - It’s Lafayette, it’s Acadiana — and it’s time.”

The nomination is:

Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars – The La Louisianne Sessions – Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album

Thanks to all for your support! 

For more information on Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars contact:

Octavia Records - 337-322-3377 – 606 S. Jefferson St. Abbeville, LA 70510

www.roddieromero.com                               www.myspace.com/roddieromero.com

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BIG NEWS! -  Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars' new release, The La Louisianne Sessions - has been nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album!

BIG NEWS! - Offbeat Magazine gave The La Louisianne Sessions a TOP 10 ranking for the best 50 Louisiana recordings released in 2007! Click the link to view: Offbeat Top 50 Releases of 2007

BIG NEWS! - Roddie Romero and the Hub City All Stars' The La Louisianne Sessions nominated for the prestigious Best of the Beat Award for Best Cajun Album!  Click here to VOTE!

* Check out the OFFBEAT review of "The La Louisianne Sessions"!  http://offbeat.com/artman/publish/article_2381.shtml

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THE HUB CITY ALL STAR

VOL I

October 2005

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Thanks for checking out volume one of the Hub City All Stars newsletter!  It has been an exciting and busy summer!  The band has been traveling the globe while managing to record our new album (the first album in 10 years!), and organize a huge benefit for Hurricane victims on the gulf coast. 

The summer started out with a performance at the Mississippi Valley Blues festival in Davenport, Iowa on the banks of the Mississippi River.  We were the only band representing Cajun and Creole music, which gave the crowds a break from the blues to get on the dance floor and rock a while – Bayou Style!  We were treated like kings by the festival and really had a great time playing under the stars as Ol’ Man River flowed by.  –It’s really amazing what happens to Kyle when you give him unlimited access to a Cadillac Escalade limousine for the weekend!  

Roddie and the boys then took off for multiple European and Canadian performances with Zachary Richard.  Being the celebrity that he is in Canada and abroad, Zachary gave the band an opportunity to perform in some really swanky theatres in front of thousands of fans.  One gig in France involved a festival with Joe Cocker and a crowd of over thirty thousand strong!  The band returned sleep deprived and full of stories involving succulent, watermelon flavored oysters, and great bottles of French wine.

One week after the devastation of hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, I teamed up with Roddie and Todd Mouton of the Acadiana Arts Council to put on the ultimate benefit.  The Hub City All Stars invited some of our favorite friends and fellow Louisiana performers to join us on stage for one memorable night of jamming.  After rocking for a 40-minute set we started to invite our guests up on stage, including Zachary Richard, Sonny Landreth, Lil’ Nathan Williams, David Torkanowski, members of Beausoliel including Michael Doucet, David Doucet, and Jimmy Breaux.   Over 6,000 attended, over $34,000 raised and all proceeds went to The American Red Cross for Hurricane Disaster Relief.  The event received great press from the N.Y. Times, L.A. Times, and the Boston Globe.  If you weren’t able to attend, be on the look out for a twenty minute segment to be broadcast on Nick Spitzer’s American Routes radio program nation wide. 

Ironically enough, three weeks later, Hurricane Rita pounded our neck of Louisiana.  The individual members of the Hub City All Stars were not in dangers way, as we were performing the Grou Tyme Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada during the storm.  However, it proved to be a stressful five days as communications with our families was nearly impossible.  It was surreal to be watching television in Halifax and see CNN reporting from the Riverfront Restaurant just five blocks from my house in Abbeville.  I’m glad to report that all our families were fine and just minor damage was sustained to our homes.  I had a moment of hometown pride when I viewed the cover of the National Post Newspaper in the Halifax airport and there was a photo of an Abbeville man and son wading through hip deep water.  The caption stated, “trying to return home”, and written on the back of the man’s shirt read, “PEACE, LOVE, AND CRABS”!  That’s our people!  Also, it was truly amazing to see the outpouring of concern, empathy, and money, which came from our Acadian cousins in Nova Scotia while we played the festival.  There is definitely a bond between the Cajuns and Acadians, which has only grown stronger during the past few hundred years.   The festival was incredible and Halifax was beautiful.  On the first day, we performed a television show which was broadcast throughout the Maritime provinces, listened to the Maritime Military band perform Dixieland songs for us, watched as they raised the Louisiana flag over Halifax for the first time in history, and then rubbed elbows with the Mayor, and Canadian and Louisiana Delegates at a reception in the Mayors office – and that was just the first day.  The rest of the festival consisted of great music, lots of Canadian beer, private parties with living room acoustic jam sessions, and still enough time to catch a few local bands performing Acadian folk tunes.  I might want to also mention that the band put a dent in the salmon and scallop population of the Atlantic!  So it is fair to say that we made out pretty well considering there was a hurricane demolishing the Gulf Coast.  We were just thankful that the Grou Tyme festival gave us an opportunity to take our minds off of the uncontrollable and let us do what we do best – play!   

Lastly, I’m overjoyed to announce that in then next upcoming months, we will be releasing the NEW Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars record!  We have finished recording and are soon to start mixing what is sure to be a great record.   So far, I think we have about 18 songs and plan to release ALL of them.  We have a lot to say after 10 years of writing and collaborating!  You’ll find funky Zydeco, rockin’ dancehall favorites, powerful Americana originals, and a sneak peak of some broken-down traditional Cajun accordion and fiddle tunes. Look for more to come in upcoming newsletters! 

From where the crawfish hide and the bayous’ wide,

Eric