PUTNEY — Twilight Music concludes its 13th annual Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of summer concerts on Sunday, Aug. 23, with Cajun/Creole roots music sextet Slippery Sneakers.
The seventh and final concert of the 2015 series begins at 6 p.m. in downtown Putney on the Putney Tavern lawn (attendees are asked to bring a lawn chair or blanket) or at The Putney Community Center at 10 Christian Square in case of rain.
Slippery Sneakers is a high-energy dance band that brings together traditional and contemporary Cajun/Creole roots music from Southwest Louisiana. The Rhode Island-based band's sound is a spicy mixture of up-tempo zydeco, blues and soul, Cajun waltzes, and a bit of rock 'n' roll.
Led by the lead vocals and accordion sounds of Robert Graves Leonard, Slippery Sneakers has broken attendance records at many monthly zydeco dances held around the Northeast, and has played major festivals of the genre from New York to Florida.
Leonard is an award-winning singer/songwriter and Nashville recording artist who contributes many original songs to the band. The band also consists of Jeff Potter on drums, Betsy Dawn Williams on “frattoire” or rubboard, Peter Breen on bass, and Putney residents Mark Trichka on guitar and Lisa Brande on fiddle.