Louis Michot, the co-founder of the Cajun-singing punk band the Lost Bayou Ramblers, plays a set from the Solar Roller, his own sun-powered stage, and discusses how solar power can save Louisiana.
When the Cajun punk rocker Louis Michot was seventeen, he decided to learn French. Michot’s great-grandfather had spoken the language, but refused to teach it to the younger generations.
“There’s always a word you didn’t know,” he said. “Any culture needs to rely on its traditional knowledge and keep up with the modern technology.” Michot was wearing a camouflage jumpsuit, one of a dozen jumpsuits that he has collected since he lost his grandfather, Louis Michot, Jr., whose father had been the one to spurn French. “He wore them fishing, to church, to fix the truck,” he said. “Different jumpsuits for different occasions.
For the festival in New Orleans, Michot had driven the Solar Roller, a sixteen-by-seven-foot solar-powered stage, a hundred and thirty-five miles from Lafayette. He erected the stage—a welded metal frame and a solar-panel roof—on a flatbed trailer that he’d used to haul dirt and equipment when building his house. “We had to take off the top of the door of the venue to get the trailer in,” he said. Bands would perform on it all afternoon and evening.
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