Zachary Richard, a true wild man.

I hope I don't scare anyone with this photo, because in person, my friend in the photo below is the most respectful, intelligent, sensitive, quiet, and introverted individual. But you would never know it from the picture below taken at Grant Street Dance Hall for Mardi Gras in 1991.


Blast from the past. Grant Street Dance Hall Mardi Gras 1991. Le bon vieux temps

Below are a couple of more photos which are a little more like Ralph "Zachary" Richard as we know him, when he is not on stage.


Photo courtesy Gregory Holt. From Chartres Street. deep in the heart of the French Quarter


Zachary is one of the people who campaign to represent our Acadian/Cajun/Creole culture in it's true form, and present that to the world. Often we suffer from outsiders attempting to define "What is a Cajun", and grossly misleading the rest of the world. The Renaissance we are presently experiencing culturally here in south Louisiana would not be possible if it were not for people like Zachary who have brought the music abroad.