If you like to dance then you’ll love Ken Pickard & Zydeco Explosion, the Pacific NW’s hottest Zydeco band. ZE specializes in a music genre that evolved in southwest Louisiana by French Creole speakers, blending blues, rhythm and blues, and music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles and the Native people of Louisiana. The fast-paced rhythms are led by second-generation accordion wizard, Ken Pickard, along with Ranger Kidwell-Ross on rubboard and backed by some of the Northwest’s most experienced musicians on guitar, sax, bass and drums.