The Cedar Presents
LOUIS MICHOT with Soul Trouvère
Thursday, March 5, 2026 / Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:30 PM
All Ages
Seated
$18 Advance, $22 Day of Show
*For Cedar Presented shows, a $4 facility fee is included in the ticket price (Ticket fee info here).
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LISTEN
Rêve du Troubadour feat. Rising Stars Fife and Drum video courtesy of Louis Michot’s official YouTube channel.
ABOUT THIS SHOW
Louis Michot is best known as the fiddle player and lead singer for the Grammy award-winning Lost Bayou Ramblers, but his passion for Louisiana French and local folklore, and sustainability in the fastest disappearing landmass in the world, are what fuel his career as a musician. With two Grammy awards, six film scores, and over 20 LPs under his belt, his music career continues to push the boundaries of the Louisiana French music traditions.
LOUIS MICHOT
Louis Michot is a Grammy award winning fiddle player and singer for Lost Bayou Ramblers, and in 2023 released his debut solo album “Rêve de Troubadour”. In 2018, Michot founded Nouveau Electric Records, promoting experimental and traditional around Louisiana French. In early 2020 Louis was named ‘Louisianian of the Year’ in 2020 along with his brother Andre. Louis began incorporating solar technology into his music operations in 2020, with a solar powered studio and a mobile solar music stage dubbed the “Solar Roller” This work also bled into doing hurricane relief work as noted in Rolling Stone (Can This Cajun-Punk Musician Protect His Culture From Climate Change?, September 16, 2021) while raising funds to procure solar generators and panels for residents of Terrebonne Parish affected by Hurricane Ida, as written about in New Yorker magazine (The Lost Bayou Ramblers Get Lit, January 3, 2022).
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Soul Trouvère
Soul Trouvère is a Minneapolis Country & Eastern band, performing original and folk music from Eastern Europe and the Americas. Colleen Bertsch is a violinist who studied and performed music in the Transylvanian countryside, and is a co-founder of the Minneapolis Balkan party band Orkestar Bez Ime. A founding member of the New Orleans band the Zydepunks, Juan Küffner performs on piano accordion. Together they sing in multiple languages, including Yiddish, Romanian, Ukrainian, Spanish, French, German, Boyash, Romani, Sorbian, Serbian, Russian, & English.
Juan’s career highlights include opening for Flogging Molly, Balkan Beat Box, and the Hold Steady, performing on stage with Gogol Bordello, and playing at numerous folks and rock festivals including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, French Quarter Festival (New Orleans), Voodoo Fest (New Orleans), Dranouter (Belgium), Aymon Folk (France), Musikfest (Pennsylvania), Tropical Heatwave (Tampa) and many others. His song “Dear Molly” was used on the soundtrack of NCIS New Orleans.
Colleen is a trained ethnomusicologist who has received multiple artist and scholastic grants and fellowships including a Fulbright to Romania and multiple Artist Initiative grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board. As a member of Orkestar Bez Ime, she was awarded the McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians and a Minnesota Emerging Composers Award from the American Composers Forum. She plays fiddle for the Minneapolis-based Balkan party band Orkestar Bez Ime, Szászka (Transylvanian) String band, and was co-founder and original violinist of the Ukrainian Village Band. She has had the pleasure of backing fantastic acts including Semisonic, The Moody Blues, Jeremy Messersmith, Davis Bain, and substituting for The Laurels String Quartet. Her favorite collaborators include Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum, Ethnic Dance Theatre, Minnesota History Theatre, Mila Vocal Ensemble, guitarist Maja Radovanlija, and the Minnesota Orchestra for their Young People’s Concert Series.
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