Buckwheat Zydeco Plays the Patchogue Theatre Tonight

Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts (PTPA) will present Louisiana's hottest Creole music, Buckwheat Zydeco and his band, tonight, March 14, at 8 p.m. Buckwheat brings the Louisiana zydeco music scene to Patchogue for the first time. Buckwheat Zydeco is the stage name of Stanley Dural, Jr., born November 14, 1947, an American accordionist and zydeco musician. He is one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music group is formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Son Partis Band, but often they perform as merely Buckwheat Zydeco.

Buckwheat performed with a large number of famous musicians from Eric Clapton, with whom he also recorded, and U2 to the Boston Pops. The band performed at the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics to a worldwide audience of three billion people. Buckwheat has performed for President Clinton twice, celebrating both of his inaugurations. His band has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, CNN, The Today Show, MTV, NBC News, CBS Morning News, National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. More recently, Buckwheat Zydeco performed "On a Night Like This" with Jimmy Fallon on the final Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show.

The New York Time says, "Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics...propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances."

Tickets for Buckwheat Zydeco at Patchogue Theatre are on sale at the box office, by phone, or online at PatchogueTheatre.com. Ticket prices range from $38 to $56 plus fee. For more information on Buckwheat Zydeco and his band's performance, visit patchoguetheatre.com or contact the box office at 631-207-1313.