Red’s Old Cajun Club

Status: Closed

Parish: Vermilion

Location: Kaplan

Hollis Boudreaux- “My first memories are there, I was very young when my parents would go there, back then kids could go in places like that. It was the host of many of French bands and many of a mardi gras dance. My dad and I used to run mardi gras there, prizes were given to the prettiest, the ugliest and the funniest. We took the ugliest category almost every year. T-Will Marceaux was the main band in its later years then Donny Broussard the grandson of t-will took the band over. Donny is a talented guy that can play every instrument in a band. Joe bonsall, Milton Adams and too many to mention, oh here’s one a lot if you know, the woodpecker song. Joe turner did that when he was with Pat Savant back then. I was spinning records there when they played one weekend and joe gave me the new album to promote it,the woodpecker song was on fire back then and the duson waltz right behind it.” Bruce Daigrepont played there