Louis Michot

Musician, songwriter

Louis Michot is best known as the fiddle player and lead-singer for the Grammy
award winning Lost Bayou Ramblers, but his passion for Louisiana French, local
folklore, and sustainability are what fuels his career as a musician. Based near
Arnaudville, LA, Louis has been performing professionally for almost three
decades with Les Freres Michot, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Michot’s Melody Makers,
Soul Creole, and 2023 marked his debut solo album Rêve de Troubadour and
adjoining tour schedule.
The last few years have brought special adaptations for Michot, from restarting
his live music during the pandemic, to doing hurricane relief work as noted in
Rolling Stone (Can This Cajun-Punk Musician Protect His Culture From Climate
Change?, September 16, 2021) while raising funds to get solar generators and
panels to residents of Terrebonne Parish affected by Hurricane Ida, as written
about in New Yorker magazine (The Lost Bayou Ramblers Get Lit, January 3,
2022).
Louis began incorporating solar technology into his music operations in 2020,
starting a solar powered studio, and fabricating the “Solar Roller” mobile solar
music stage equipped with solar generator and panels. In early 2020 Louis was
named Louisianian of the Year in 2020 along with his brother Andre, and their
band Lost Bayou Ramblers was named Entertainers of the Year by New Orleans’
Big Easy Awards in 2019.
In 2018, Michot founded Nouveau Electric Records, a record label with the mission
of promoting local music within the experimental and traditional realms, with a
focus on Louisiana French. The label has since released over 20 LPs, Eps, and
singles, in genres ranging from Zydeco to avant-garde.
Louis has recorded and performed along-side Rickie Lee Jones, Scarlett
Johansonn, Jon Batiste, Lucinda Williams, Aloe Black, Donald Byrd, Spider Stacy,
Gordon Gano, and Dr. John, as well as Cajun greats D. L. Menard, Belton Richard,
Vin Bruce, Hadley Castille, and Luderin Darbonne.