Birmingham Zydeco Cajun Club

Current Events Calendar

Special Events

BZCC Birthday Bash! (Meetup, Music & Jam)

Thursday, August 28, 2025 6:30-8:30 – True Story Brewing

Join us on August 28th for a “Special Event” the free BZCC Birthday Bash (Music! Cake! Giveaways!) to celebrate our first year of holding Cajun/Creole/Zydeco music events in Birmingham.

Birmingham Zydeco Cajun Club (“BZCC”) Members and Friends will gather for a FREE Meetup, Music & Jam in the side room of True Story Brewing for Cajun/Creole/Zydeco music on the 4^th Thursday of the month. Members of Birmingham’s Swamp Poppas band join us when they are able. All musicians are welcome and encouraged to bring their instruments and join in a casual jam. Dancers are encouraged to bring friends that dance. We will stream music before/after the jam. True Story Brewing has a full bar, food and space to gather.

Live Music Events

BLACKCAT ZYDECO

featuring

Dwight Carrier

September 19, 2025

True Story Brewing

5510 Crestwood Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35212

Doors 7pm • Show 8pm – 11pm

Tickets: $20

Advanced General Admission Available are now on sale!

Will Call Tickets via the BZCC Website (HERE) on the "Shop BZCC" Page

Physical tickets available via Fred: [email protected] or 205-208-9797 (call/text)

Watch Blackcat Zydeco perform LIVE

Dwight Carrier, popularly known as “The Black

Cat,” is one of the most exciting Zydeco musicians

around. Dwight grew up in the small town of Church

Point, Louisiana, deeply rooted in the “Carrier”

family tradition, where music is both a passion and

a way of life. Dwight has a unique style that infuses

zydeco, with blues, country and R&B and produces

a high-energy performance and infectious fun.

“When Black Cat’s in town, everybody party down!”

More Information:

https://blackcatzydecomusic.com

Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble

at

October 17, 2025

Doors 7pm • Show 8pm – 11pm

Woodlawn Theatre

5301 1^st Ave N, Birmingham, AL 35212

Tickets are now on sale!

E-Tickets via the Woodlawn Theatre website (HERE) or www.woodlawntheatrebham.com

Will Call Tickets via the BZCC Website (HERE) on the "Shop BZCC" Page

Physical tickets available via Fred: [email protected] or 205-208-9797 (call/text)

Watch Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble perform LIVE! “It’s Alright”

After leaving the audience at the 2025 Birmingham Folk Festival wanting more, Curley Taylor and his band, Zydeco Trouble, will return to Birmingham on Friday, October 17th, and take the stage at the Woodlawn Theatre at 8pm!

Curley Taylor and the band hail from the heart of Creole country in Louisiana. Curley's soulful, bluesy vocals and the band's hard driving zydeco beat blend to create their unique style of zydeco and blues that keeps audiences dancing. It's always a party when Zydeco Trouble comes to town.

Louisiana native Curley Taylor has been around music all his life. Born into a musical family, drums were Curley's first instrument when he began his professional career at age 16 by playing drums in his father's band, Jude Taylor and the Burning Flames, a band deep in Louisiana Blues, Soul and Zydeco. At a young age, Curley had played drums with some of Louisiana's musical legends, including: CC Adcock, Steve Riley, John Hart, "L'il" Bob and the Lollipops, and his uncles, "L'il" Buck Senegal and Wayne "Blue" Burns. He toured with CJ Chenier, son of Clifton Chenier (aka the "King of Zydeco"), who is a Zydeco legend in his own right. While traveling with CJ Chenier's band, Curley became interested in playing the accordion, learned to play, and formed Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble in 2003.

The band tours extensively throughout the US, playing festivals and clubs from New York to San Diego and from Florida to Seattle. Recently, Curley played accordion to accompany Jon Cleary on the song “I’m on the Wonder” on the album, “A Tribute to the King of Zydeco,” to honor the legacy of Clifton Chenier, and Curley played rubboard on the song from the same album performed by the Rolling Stones, “Zydeco Sont Pas Salés,” released as a single on June 25, 2025, which would have been Clifton Chenier’s 100th birthday.

More Information:

www.CurleyTaylor.com

Zydeco fitness

Get fit with a Zydeco beat!

Zydeco Zumba

Instruction by Libby

The Magnolia Ballroom

2198 Columbiana Rd Suite 100

Birmingham AL 35216

Every Thursday, 5:30 PM

$10

MEET UP to JAM, dance and listen to Zydeco/Cajun music

Meetup: BZCC Cajun/Creole/Zydeco Music & Jam

When: 4th Thursday of every month (6:30 - 8:30 PM)

Where: True Story Brewing Company https://www.facebook.com/truestorybrewing

5510 Crestwood Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35212

Description: Birmingham Zydeco Cajun Club ("BZCC") Members and Friends will meet in the side room of True Story Brewing (which has a sound system and room to dance) for Cajun/Creole/Zydeco music on the 4th Thursday of every month. Members of Birmingham’s Swamp Poppas band join when they are able. All musicians are welcome and encouraged to bring their instruments and join in a casual Jam. Dancers are encouraged to bring friends that dance. We will stream music before/after the Jam. True Story Brewing has a full bar, food and space to gather. Please join us!