"THE BEST CAJUN BAND IN THE WORLD"
    - Garrison Keillor, Prairie Home Companion

"BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, they play music that's honest to the bone! " - Allen Toussaint 		 

2010 GRAMMY Nominee for Alligator Purse (Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album)
- their 11th GRAMMY Nomination over their 30-plus year career

2009 GRAMMY Winner for Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album)

1998 GRAMMY Winner for L'Amour Ou La Folie (Best Traditional Folk Album)

2010 Winner: Best Cajun Performer - Best of The Beat Awards, presented by New Orleans' offBeat magazine, an amazing 14th win for them in this category

2010 Winner Best Cajun Album - for Alligator Purse - Best of The Beat Awards

"That's my kind of music!" - Bob Dylan, upon listening to BeauSoleil during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Alligator Purse named among Best of 2009 per Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics Poll, offbeat Magazine

One of the most frequent guests on National Public Radio's legendary program, A Prairie Home Companion

Michael Doucet awarded 2007 United States Artists Fellowship & 2005 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts

Performed at Super Bowl XXX Halftime Show (1997)

Featured in Dancing To New Orleans, a two hour Bravo television special (2003)

2009 festival Performances include: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington DC; Voodoo Fest, New Orleans; Merlefest, NC; Houston International Festival; TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival; On The Waterfront Festival, IL; Narrows Festival of The Arts, MA; Chandler Jazz Festival, AZ and many more