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The Great Big Fais DoDo is a three-day Honky Tonk, Cajun and Western Swing music and dance festival i

10/29/2024

When a horse walks into your h***y tonk!!!!

Church With No Walls written by Caleb Klauder.
Caleb Klauder on mandolin and lead vocals.
Reeb Willms on acoustic guitar & vocal
Drake LeBlanc on trumpet and horse.
Chris Miller on saxophone.
Mike Bub on upright bass.
Glenn A Fields on drums.
Rusty Blake on steel guitar.
Joel Savoy and Katie on fiddles.
Jesse Lege on accordion.
Paul “Bird” Edwards on rub board.
Ethan Lawton and Hailey Pexton on vocals.

Filmed by Steve Kunnen

Church With No Walls written by Caleb Klauder. Performed live at Blackpot Camp October 2024, at Lakeview Park & Beach in Eunice, Louisiana. Caleb Klauder on ...

09/05/2024

Get your tickets now for this one off The Great Big Fais Do Do.

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Thursday Sept 26. Portland, Oregon. spare Room Spare Room Restaurant & Lounge

05/21/2024

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Join us for a special evening of Cajun and Country music. The Great Big Fais Do Do is back for one night only. Sept 26 2024

02/22/2021

We are so happy to share this new video with you all. It comes from the wonderful Deep End Sessions in Southern California. Seems like eons ago since we made this kind of music. Cant wait to do it again live.

Foghorn Stringband, Waterbound. Traditional. First recorded in 1929 by Fields Ward’s Buck Mountain Band (also known as Grayson County Railspitters and later ...

02/04/2021

Friends. Reeb Willms and I are excited to share this with you. We will be performing live, on Feb 27th, on a brand new streaming platform called FrQncy. This will be a special day with two performances one early on for Europe and one later on for the US. If you want more interaction between performer and audience in a livestream, this is the show for you.
Check out— https://frqncy.live/caleb-reeb/

Feb 27 2021. 7pm PST and 7pm GMT.

Pickathon Proudly Presents Caleb & Reeb Livestream

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The Great Big Fais Do Do 2019

The Great Big Fais Do Do (pronounced Fay-Doe-Doe) is the Northwest’s premier roots country music festival. It is a welcome all dance and music festival in Northeast Portland, Oregon bringing together h***y tonk, cajun, western swing, bluegrass, and string band music. At the Great Big Fais Do Do we can forget, for a joyful moment, about life’s hardship through music, dance, and social communion, a tradition that is as old as humanity.

Fais Do Do is a Cajun french phrase that means “go night night”, meaning, put the kids to bed and let’s have a party! Traditionally this would have been a house party with live unamplified dance music and partner dancing. It grew into a wider used phrase for the Louisiana country dancehall, and there is even a Fais Do Do stage at Jazz Fest in New Orleans. Now we use it again as an attitude we wish to promote here in Portland. Jimmy C Newman said it perfectly in his famous song, Great Big Fais Do Do: “at the great big fais do do, where you glide across the floor, then you eat some hot gumbo, then go back and dance some more!”