How to Use zydeco in a Sentence

zydeco

noun
  • During their sons’ younger years, the Franks used to travel across states to listen to zydeco bands.
    Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • One of the zydeco bands cooked jambalaya in a slow cooker.
    Robert Cadwallader, star-telegram.com, 17 May 2017
  • The King of Slideco, Sonny Landreth, performs at 7 p.m. with his blend of rock, blues and zydeco.
    Kathy Cichon, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2018
  • The Baltimore band plays zydeco, blues, roots, rock and reggae as part of the outdoor Concerts in the Park series.
    Jillian S. Jarrett, Washington Post, 28 June 2017
  • Parisian French seemed at once at home and out of place in Cajun country, like the voice of Édith Piaf emanating from a zydeco club.
    Richard Fausset, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Ardoin’s songs of a lost love named Joline and life as an orphan helped to lay the foundation for modern Cajun music and zydeco.
    Herman Fuselier, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Bertaut inherited her parents' love of dancing and is now a zydeco teacher in the New Orleans area.
    Melinda Morris, NOLA.com, 2 July 2017
  • As always, the fest will include local favorites, national icons, young up-and-comers and more artists from across the spectrum of blues, soul, rock, zydeco and beyond.
    OregonLive.com, 26 June 2017
  • This new concert series honors the great jazz, blues and zydeco musicians of Houston in free concerts taking place in three parks.
    Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2018
  • This will be your chance to strap on a button accordion or a frottoir, as the percussive metal vest washboards featured in most zydeco bands are known.
    George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2017
  • Crawfish, zydeco and draft beer weren’t all that was in evidence at this weekend’s 16th annual Gator by the Bay festival at Spanish Landing.
    Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 May 2017
  • Creole Stomp separates itself from zydeco groups that tend to play strictly zydeco all night long.
    Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Servers don Mardi Gras beads and deliver frozen daiquiris and hurricanes against a backdrop of zydeco music and chipper, colorful decor.
    Malcolm Mayhew, star-telegram, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Zydeco is the distinctive, churning and whirling African-American spin on cajun music by French-Creole speakers.
    John Adamian, courant.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • At the pardoning ceremony Tuesday (Feb. 20), Emile was escorted down a red carpet in a crawfish trap to the tunes of a zydeco band before being plopped into an aquarium.
    Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • More than 100 performers will play blues, Cajun, zydeco, rockabilly, salsa and country tunes on seven stages.
    April Orcutt, latimes.com, 6 May 2018
  • Nine contests around the state feature polka, Cajun, zydeco and conjunto accordion music.
    Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Players performed on drums galore, zydeco washboard and squeezebox, multi-cultural percussive instruments, brass and flutes.
    Dylan Owens, The Know, 13 Mar. 2017
  • The agenda also includes a cooking competition, children’s activities and a zydeco dance party.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, AL.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Artists perform a variety of acoustic genres, including Americana, blues, zydeco, Dixieland, big band and contemporary folk.
    Judy Peterson, The Mercury News, 19 May 2017
  • All genres of accordion music are welcome, including conjunto, zydeco, Cajun, polka and more.
    Houston Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Messina's other specialty food items were its signature antipasto display, duck and andouille gumbo, canefield salad, a pork loin carving station, crawfish zydeco pasta and white chocolate bread pudding.
    Elizabeth Moore, NOLA.com, 15 Apr. 2018

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