Life on Florida’s West Coast

Zydeco

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I was listening to some old CDs a friend made me years ago and came across a couple of zydeco tunes. Zydeco music is the Creole sound of New Orleans and the surrounding areas of Louisiana. That got me thinking about when I worked for a market research company in Frederick, MD and one of the VPs there talked a lot about how he had become very involved in zydeco dance. Zydeco dance is syncopated version of two-step that is done in place. It was always very hard for me to imagine this guy dancing at all, little less a super fact two-step. He was a nice guy and super intelligent, but not the sort you imagine involved in coordinated activities like dance, of any kind. Nonetheless, I regret not taking him up on going to see him perform. I may have been pleasantly surprised. Maybe he was gifted at dance.

To this day, when I hear anything about zydeco, I think of that guy. I hope he is doing well. I think I’ll go download some new zydeco tunes now. They will pep me up so I can get more work down this morning.

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