Marty Christian has been working with youth through after school workshops in his club, Mardi de Musique since 2011. Through these workshops, students learn about the history of the Blues and how it relates to Louisiana music in French and English through the genres of Zydeco, Cajun, Swamp Pop and Rhythm and Blues. Students then participate in songwriting workshops and participation through playing washboards (frottoirs) and other instruments.
Mardi de Musique students performed around Lafayette, LA at Festival International, the Acadiana Center for the Arts and for the Louisiana French High School Teachers conference. They also collaborated with esteemed musicians in the region such as: Carol Fran, Bobby Michot and Lee Zeno.
From 2018-2021, Marty taught at the University of Louisiana as an adjunct instructor in the Traditional Music Department. There he taught a group of students about the many ways Blues could be performed in ensembles or as a solo artist as part of their graduate degree program. Students performed at Festival Internatuonal and other venues and recorded a live video at KRVS-FM.
Mardi de Musique now lives on with Marty in New Orleans as he continues to play Blues, write songs and organize performances and workshops for youth in libraries and schools throughout Louisiana.
Marty Christian is available to do Blues workshops for youth or adults
en français:
Depuis 2011, Marty Christian travaille avec les jeunes dans le cadre d'ateliers extrascolaires au sein de son club, Mardi de Musique. Dans le cadre de ces ateliers, les élèves apprennent l'histoire du blues et son lien avec la musique louisianaise, en français et en anglais, à travers les genres Zydeco, Cajun, Swamp Pop et Rhythm and Blues. Les élèves participent ensuite à des ateliers d'écriture de chansons et jouent des planches à laver (frottoirs) et d'autres instruments.
Les élèves de Mardi de Musique se sont produits à Lafayette, LA, au Festival International, à l'Acadiana Center for the Arts et à la conférence des professeurs de lycée français de la Lousiane. Ils ont également collaboré avec d'éminents musiciens de la région tels que : Carol Fran, Bobby Michot et Lee Zeno.
De 2018 à 2021, Marty a également enseigné à un groupe d'étudiants à l'Université de Louisiane en tant que professeur adjoint au département de musique traditionnelle. Il y a enseigné à un groupe d'étudiants les nombreuses façons dont le blues pouvait être interprété dans des ensembles ou en tant qu'artiste solo dans le cadre de leur programme de diplôme d'études supérieures.
Mardi de Musique vit maintenant avec Marty à la Nouvelle-Orléans, où il continue de jouer du blues, d'écrire des chansons et d'organiser des spectacles et des ateliers pour les jeunes dans les bibliothèques et les écoles de toute la Louisiane.
Marty Christian est disponible pour animer des ateliers de blues pour les jeunes ou les adultes.
contact : [email protected]
Marty Christian BIO : Guitariste de blues (acoustique et électrique), chanteur, auteur-compositeur, enseignant.
Marty Christian BIO: Blues guitarist (acoustic and electric), singer, songwriter, teacher)
Teaching Experience:
2011 - 2025: French Immersion teacher in Lafayette, LA and in New Orleans, LA (2021-present)
Founder of after school music club (Mardi de Musique) that focuses on performing and writing Roots music from Louisiana: Blues, Zydeco and Cajun in French. "Mardi de Musique" consists of 5th graders in French Immersion classes that write, rehearse and perform original and traditional songs throughout the year. The club ranges in size from 10-16 students. Students play percussion ("frottoir"/rubboard, "ti' fer"/triangle), sing, play saxophone, violin, trumpet, guitar and/or trombone. Lessons are based in Blues music patterns and introduction to theory and how the Blues form relates to Zydeco, Cajun and other music. The club's goal is to perform at the school throughout the year but it has also performed at Festival International and the ArtExpo at the ACA in Lafayette.
2018-2021: Adjunct instructor at the University of Lafayette in Louisiana, Acoustic Blues in the Traditional Music Department.
Recordings:
Independently released CDs of Original and Blues music:
2006 Bluesicana (solo/duo acoustic)
2009 Underground Blues (solo/duo acoustic)
2012 Rue Boogaloo (electric band)
2015 What I Came Here To Do (solo acoustic and electric band)
2018 Rambling Blues (solo acoustic CD to be released)
2025 No More Troublin’ Times (solo acoustic CD to be released)
Recordings as session guitarist:
2004: Thomas Big Hat Fields and his Foot Stompin' Zydeco Band: "Big Hat Zydeco Stomp" on Maison de Soul records
2009: Henry Gray and the Cats: "Times are Getting Hard" on Lucky Cat Records
2010 - Louisiana Swamp Stomp – cd compilation – guitarist for Carol Fran
2020 - Guitarist for Carol Fran - Vinyl LP: "All of my Life"
Performances:
2000 - present: Acoustic Blues and originals artist (solo, duo and trio): Performance venues including:
Baton Rouge Blues Festival, Festival International, Downtown Alive (Lafayette, LA), Blue Moon Saloon, Grant Street Dancehall, Artmosphere, Blue Dog Café, Sale Barn, Ernest Gaines Center at UL, Louisiana Music Factory, Red Dragon Listening Room, Crossroads (Winnsboro, TX), LCN-TV (Houma, LA), KRVS-FM (Lafayette, LA), Fred's Texas Café (Fort Worth, TX), Noble Savage Tavern (Sheveport, LA), Enoch's (Monroe, LA), The Cave (Chapel Hill, NC), Shedstock House Concerts (Sherman, TX), Acoustic Coffeehouse (Johnson City, TN), Ultimate Louisiana Party, Danelectros (Houston, TX), Barking Spider (Cleveland, OH), Kilted Mermaid (Vero Beach, FL), Hip Pocket Theatre (Fort Worth), Black Eyed Susan Acoustic Café (Angelica, NY), Union Coffee House (Buchanan, MI), Two Old Hippies (Nashville, TN), Pittsboro Road House (Pittsboro, NC), Bratz Y’all (New Orleans), Black Pot Festival as well as venues in France and Spain.
2010-2017 - Rue Boogaloo (frontman, guitarist): Electric Blues and Originals band performances at Downtown Alive, The Shed, Feed and Seed (Lafayette, LA), Zydeco Cycles (St. Martinville, LA), Hip Pocket Theater (Fort Worth, TX)
2003-2006 - Guitarist and singer for Thomas Big Hat Fields and his Foot Stompin Zydeco band. Performed at venues and festivals around Louisiana and the United States including: New Orleans Jazz Fest (2005), Oktoberfest, Columbus, OH (2003-2005), Harlingen Accordion Festival, Harlingen, TX (2004), Beale Street Mardi Gras, Memphis, TN (2004, 2005), Antone's, Austin, TX (2005)
2008-2016 Guitarist for Henry Gray and the Cats. Performed at venues and festivals across the United States including: New Orleans Jazz Fest (2009 - 2012, 2016), NEA Awards venues: New Hampshire, Montana, Edminton Blues Festival, CA, Baton Rouge Blues Fest, Downtown Alive (Lafayette, LA), Festival International, Black Pot Festival, Nacitoches Folklife Festival, Ogden Museum (New Orleans, LA), Louisiana Crossroads (Crowley, LA, Lafayette, LA), Shagfest (Myrtle Beach, SC), Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival (New Orleans, LA), T-Bone Walk Blues Festival (also performed with Honeyboy Edwards).
2014: guitarist and opening band for Carol Fran, Festival International
1993-94 - Good Hands Blues Band based in St. Barthelemy, France - performed in bars and venues around Eastern France. 1998-2000 Pressure Cooker, an electric Blues trio in Austin, TX that performed in bars and venues around the Austin area. 2000-2001 Marty Christian Trio - in Austin, TX.
Contact info:
Phone: 504-356-2320
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.Martychristian.com
Mardi de Musique students performed around Lafayette, LA at Festival International, the Acadiana Center for the Arts and for the Louisiana French High School Teachers conference. They also collaborated with esteemed musicians in the region such as: Carol Fran, Bobby Michot and Lee Zeno.
From 2018-2021, Marty taught at the University of Louisiana as an adjunct instructor in the Traditional Music Department. There he taught a group of students about the many ways Blues could be performed in ensembles or as a solo artist as part of their graduate degree program. Students performed at Festival Internatuonal and other venues and recorded a live video at KRVS-FM.
Mardi de Musique now lives on with Marty in New Orleans as he continues to play Blues, write songs and organize performances and workshops for youth in libraries and schools throughout Louisiana.
Marty Christian is available to do Blues workshops for youth or adults
- contact: [email protected]
en français:
Depuis 2011, Marty Christian travaille avec les jeunes dans le cadre d'ateliers extrascolaires au sein de son club, Mardi de Musique. Dans le cadre de ces ateliers, les élèves apprennent l'histoire du blues et son lien avec la musique louisianaise, en français et en anglais, à travers les genres Zydeco, Cajun, Swamp Pop et Rhythm and Blues. Les élèves participent ensuite à des ateliers d'écriture de chansons et jouent des planches à laver (frottoirs) et d'autres instruments.
Les élèves de Mardi de Musique se sont produits à Lafayette, LA, au Festival International, à l'Acadiana Center for the Arts et à la conférence des professeurs de lycée français de la Lousiane. Ils ont également collaboré avec d'éminents musiciens de la région tels que : Carol Fran, Bobby Michot et Lee Zeno.
De 2018 à 2021, Marty a également enseigné à un groupe d'étudiants à l'Université de Louisiane en tant que professeur adjoint au département de musique traditionnelle. Il y a enseigné à un groupe d'étudiants les nombreuses façons dont le blues pouvait être interprété dans des ensembles ou en tant qu'artiste solo dans le cadre de leur programme de diplôme d'études supérieures.
Mardi de Musique vit maintenant avec Marty à la Nouvelle-Orléans, où il continue de jouer du blues, d'écrire des chansons et d'organiser des spectacles et des ateliers pour les jeunes dans les bibliothèques et les écoles de toute la Louisiane.
Marty Christian est disponible pour animer des ateliers de blues pour les jeunes ou les adultes.
contact : [email protected]
Marty Christian BIO : Guitariste de blues (acoustique et électrique), chanteur, auteur-compositeur, enseignant.
Marty Christian BIO: Blues guitarist (acoustic and electric), singer, songwriter, teacher)
Teaching Experience:
2011 - 2025: French Immersion teacher in Lafayette, LA and in New Orleans, LA (2021-present)
Founder of after school music club (Mardi de Musique) that focuses on performing and writing Roots music from Louisiana: Blues, Zydeco and Cajun in French. "Mardi de Musique" consists of 5th graders in French Immersion classes that write, rehearse and perform original and traditional songs throughout the year. The club ranges in size from 10-16 students. Students play percussion ("frottoir"/rubboard, "ti' fer"/triangle), sing, play saxophone, violin, trumpet, guitar and/or trombone. Lessons are based in Blues music patterns and introduction to theory and how the Blues form relates to Zydeco, Cajun and other music. The club's goal is to perform at the school throughout the year but it has also performed at Festival International and the ArtExpo at the ACA in Lafayette.
2018-2021: Adjunct instructor at the University of Lafayette in Louisiana, Acoustic Blues in the Traditional Music Department.
Recordings:
Independently released CDs of Original and Blues music:
2006 Bluesicana (solo/duo acoustic)
2009 Underground Blues (solo/duo acoustic)
2012 Rue Boogaloo (electric band)
2015 What I Came Here To Do (solo acoustic and electric band)
2018 Rambling Blues (solo acoustic CD to be released)
2025 No More Troublin’ Times (solo acoustic CD to be released)
Recordings as session guitarist:
2004: Thomas Big Hat Fields and his Foot Stompin' Zydeco Band: "Big Hat Zydeco Stomp" on Maison de Soul records
2009: Henry Gray and the Cats: "Times are Getting Hard" on Lucky Cat Records
2010 - Louisiana Swamp Stomp – cd compilation – guitarist for Carol Fran
2020 - Guitarist for Carol Fran - Vinyl LP: "All of my Life"
Performances:
2000 - present: Acoustic Blues and originals artist (solo, duo and trio): Performance venues including:
Baton Rouge Blues Festival, Festival International, Downtown Alive (Lafayette, LA), Blue Moon Saloon, Grant Street Dancehall, Artmosphere, Blue Dog Café, Sale Barn, Ernest Gaines Center at UL, Louisiana Music Factory, Red Dragon Listening Room, Crossroads (Winnsboro, TX), LCN-TV (Houma, LA), KRVS-FM (Lafayette, LA), Fred's Texas Café (Fort Worth, TX), Noble Savage Tavern (Sheveport, LA), Enoch's (Monroe, LA), The Cave (Chapel Hill, NC), Shedstock House Concerts (Sherman, TX), Acoustic Coffeehouse (Johnson City, TN), Ultimate Louisiana Party, Danelectros (Houston, TX), Barking Spider (Cleveland, OH), Kilted Mermaid (Vero Beach, FL), Hip Pocket Theatre (Fort Worth), Black Eyed Susan Acoustic Café (Angelica, NY), Union Coffee House (Buchanan, MI), Two Old Hippies (Nashville, TN), Pittsboro Road House (Pittsboro, NC), Bratz Y’all (New Orleans), Black Pot Festival as well as venues in France and Spain.
2010-2017 - Rue Boogaloo (frontman, guitarist): Electric Blues and Originals band performances at Downtown Alive, The Shed, Feed and Seed (Lafayette, LA), Zydeco Cycles (St. Martinville, LA), Hip Pocket Theater (Fort Worth, TX)
2003-2006 - Guitarist and singer for Thomas Big Hat Fields and his Foot Stompin Zydeco band. Performed at venues and festivals around Louisiana and the United States including: New Orleans Jazz Fest (2005), Oktoberfest, Columbus, OH (2003-2005), Harlingen Accordion Festival, Harlingen, TX (2004), Beale Street Mardi Gras, Memphis, TN (2004, 2005), Antone's, Austin, TX (2005)
2008-2016 Guitarist for Henry Gray and the Cats. Performed at venues and festivals across the United States including: New Orleans Jazz Fest (2009 - 2012, 2016), NEA Awards venues: New Hampshire, Montana, Edminton Blues Festival, CA, Baton Rouge Blues Fest, Downtown Alive (Lafayette, LA), Festival International, Black Pot Festival, Nacitoches Folklife Festival, Ogden Museum (New Orleans, LA), Louisiana Crossroads (Crowley, LA, Lafayette, LA), Shagfest (Myrtle Beach, SC), Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival (New Orleans, LA), T-Bone Walk Blues Festival (also performed with Honeyboy Edwards).
2014: guitarist and opening band for Carol Fran, Festival International
1993-94 - Good Hands Blues Band based in St. Barthelemy, France - performed in bars and venues around Eastern France. 1998-2000 Pressure Cooker, an electric Blues trio in Austin, TX that performed in bars and venues around the Austin area. 2000-2001 Marty Christian Trio - in Austin, TX.
Contact info:
Phone: 504-356-2320
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.Martychristian.com
