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2012 Offbeat Magazine Best of The Beat Awards - BeauSoleil's Michael Doucet nominated for Best Violinist/Fiddler (a category he won in 2008)
2011 OffBeat Magazine Best of the Beat Award Winner for Best Cajun Artist - an amazing 15th Award Win in this category
Awarded "Best Non-European Cajun Band 2011" in The European Cajun and Zydeco Awards, Cologne Germany - First Time Ever Presented
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
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
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