Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble
October 17, 2025
Doors 7pm • Show 8pm – 11pm
Advanced General Admission Available next Saturday (July 26th) at 10am!
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.
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