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'The building would bounce to the beat': Saving one of Louisiana's oldest remaining dance halls
When Slim’s Y-Ki-Ki Zydeco dance hall closed in Opelousas in 2016, it represented an end of an era. Not an end to listening to zydeco, certainly. Festivals, both local and worldwide, celebrate southwest Louisiana’s homegrown sound. Today's zydeco artists travel for gigs all over the world — in addition to being recognized at the Grammys and regularly played on radio and streaming services where any group of Creoles and Cajuns are gathered. Indeed, zydeco is still very much the soundtrack of life across Louisiana.
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