Save the date for KGNU-CFCZ’s Mardi Gras Dance Benefit Featuring Koray Broussard & The Zydeco Unit!
Saturday, January 31, 2026 at the Avalon Ballroom.
Doors: 6:30 p.m
Dance Lesson: 7:00 p.m.
Music: 8:00 p.m.
Non-alcoholic beverages and Cajun/Creole food available for purchase, with complimentary King Cake.
Costume contest with fabulous prizes, Vodoo Alley, and more.
This event is a benefit for KGNU and CFCZ.
Ticket Info
- Reserved Kingfish Table for 6: $240 (due to popular demand, we’ve added a few more tables!)
- Regular: $45 Jan 9 – Jan 30
- Day of Show At The Door: $50
- Students: $20 with valid student ID, day of show at the door only.
- Early Bird: $40 through Jan 8
Sponsors
This project is funded in part by a grant from the Boulder Arts Commission, an agency of the Boulder City Council.
About Koray Brussard
Ever since Koray Broussard arrived on Earth, he was destined for a career in Zydeco, the music played by Louisiana’s French-speaking Creoles.
His grandfather Delton Broussard fronted the long-running Lawtell Playboys, his father John led the Zydeco Blazers, and Uncle Jeffrey spearheaded Zydeco Force, an influential band famous for inventing the Nouveau Zydeco style heard today.
His large family also developed the sexy, eight-count dance style that departed from traditional two-steps and waltzes. A prodigy, Koray became a professional drummer at age eight with the Trail Blazers.
A year later, he played the accordion as well as his father. Being self-taught wasn’t easy. Since instruments were expensive, his father forbade Koray from playing his accordion, but he carefully sneaked in practicing without anyone knowing.
That’s also how he learned the electric guitar and bass, sneaking around his father and uncles to play their instruments.
After high school, he toured with veterans Roy Carrier, Curley Taylor, and whiz kid Andre Thierry, besides developing his own band. Thierry insisted Koray know every idiom of Zydeco and drilled that into him.
These experiences made the multi-instrumentalist extremely versatile to maneuver easily between traditional, Noveau, and the more modern R&B influenced Zydeco.
— Dan Willging
