Pointe Noir Cajun Band Cajun Band from Montpelier, VT

Pointe Noir plays an uplifting combination of exciting dance music, country songs, and Cajun tunes from Lafayette and beyond. Pointe Noir finds its rhythm deeply seated in Southwest Louisiana, where many of its members have studied and learned Cajun music. Katie Trautz is a seasoned fiddle player, who drifted south to the Bayou after many years of playing Oldtime music. Chris Hollis, the Montpelier based old time musician playing guitar in the band, also found an interest in Cajun music, and together he and Trautz traveled to Louisiana to learn the musical traditions there. Cannon Labrie is a longtime Cajun and Zydeco accordion player. Pointe Noir’s rhythm section includes Walker Blackwell, a percussionist who has been surrounded by Cajun music his entire life and has been performing percussion in several local bands on and off since he was four years old. Christiana Athena-Blackwell is a multi-instrumentalist and music educator.