Based inside 1975, Beausoleil (typically billed when "Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet") freed its forevirtually all album within 1977 & became one of a most easily-known elastic performing traditional & original music rooted in the folk tunes of the creole & Cajun humans of Louisiana. Beausoleil tours extensively in the U.S. & internationally. When its repertoire includes hundreds of traditional Cajun and zydeco songs, Beausoleil has also pushed preceding constraints of strictly traditional instrumentation, rhythm, & lyrics of Louisiana folk, incorporating elements of rock-&-rock & roll, jazz, blues, calypso, & more genres inside original compositions and reworkings of traditionl tunes. Lyrics inside Beausoleil recordings come sung in English or even Cajun French (and another time two around of these song).

Based on data from a band's site, Beausoleil's musicians "take the rich Cajun traditions of Louisiana and artfully blend elements of zydeco, New Orleans jazz, Tex-Mex, country, blues and more into a satisfying musical recipe."

A band's title occurs as tribute to [http://www.cajunculture.com/People/broussardJ.htm Joseph Broussard dit "Beausoleil"], a leader of the Acadian resistance to British deportation efforts beginning in 1755. Beausoleil was at length captured, however ensuing his imprisonment managed to lead 193 exiles to Louisiana prior to he died within 1765.

Beausoleil has appeared in soundtracks to films The Big Easy, Passion Fish and Belizaire a Cajun. A class actiin plays at jazz & folk festivals & has appeared on many tv program, including CNN's Showbiz Now, Austin City Restricts, Late Nighttime by having Conan O'Brien, & Emeril Survive. Beausoleil appears regularly in Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion radio show. Keillor hwhen hailed a class action as a "best Cajun band in the world." Beausoleil has likewise performed crane-like by using Mary Chapin Carpenter and opened for the Grateful Dead.

Beasusoleil was natural at a right moment for a fresh b& to acquire along sustaining the rebirth of interest inside Cajun culture withinside Lousiaiana, & the class action beyond any doubt helped the expanding interest inside (&, occasionally would say, exploitation of) Cajun music & ethnical symbols in the United States, France, and in numerous more countries.

Around Louisiana in a Fifties & Sixties after Michael Doucet was growing higher, the musical heritage of Acadie (French for "Acadia") got aged, withered, & sure wasn't considered cool, potentially for humans of Acadian descent. The turning point come whenever Doucet was awarded the Folk Arts Apprenticeship per National Endowment of the Arts. "I had planned to go to graduate school in New Mexico to study the Romantic poets," he recalls on the Vanguard records website. "Instead I traded William Blake for Dewey Balfa." Doucet sought out each living Cajun musician, including Balfa, Dennis McGee, Sady Courville, Luderin Darbone, Varise Connor, Canray Fontenot, & Freeman Fontenot & others. He exposed their techniques & songs & encouraged a few to resume public performances.

Recognition
Beausoleil is one of two or three groups performing traditional Louisianthe music to win a Grammy Award. ''50'Amour Ou La Folie (Love Or even Folly), recorded around 1995 & freed in Rhino Records, earned a 1997 Grammy for Right Traditional Folk Album. Within the view in Amazon.com, Richard Gehr wrote, "By now the sextet transcends the dancehall, possessing the ability to transform nearly any traditional Cajun, Creole, or French tune into high art while preserving a clear sonic bloodline back to its roots." Around 2005, Beausoleil’s Gitane Cajun, freed in Vanguard Records, earned a class action its tenth Grammy nomination for Right Traditional Folk Album. The reflection of its versatility is that Beausoleil has as well earned the Grammy nomination in the Contemporary Folk category, for the 1999 album Cajunization, sustaining songs that effortlessly span Cajun, Calypso, French ballad, blues & more genre.

Within 2005, BeauSoleil won a Heavy Convenient amusement Award for Right Cajun B&, a tenth instance a band was honored in the Eighteen-month history of the awards presented per Up to date Orleans music and entertainment publication Gambit Weekly.''

Around 2005, BeauSoleil founder Michael Doucet was one of Xii creative person awarded the National Heritage Fellowship per National Endowment for the Arts. Anterior Heritage fellows stand included B.B. King, Doc Watson Bill Monroe, The Blind Boys of Alabama and the late John Lee Hooker.