Message: This was my second Daphne Zydeco Festival. It was great. Your entertainment lineup is superb. Great dance floor. I plan to make the trip to Daphne an annual event.

Message: Sandra , it was great meeting you and your festival is the BEST! I go to lots of festivals and I haven't seen one so focused to dancing and dancer comfort. It was incredible and I've already made plans to be there next year and am telling everyone I know they should be there too! You, the volunteers, the bands, the venue, the city, the area are all incredible - thank you for making me feel so welcome and for providing a festival that is a dancer's dream! See you next year! Cleo Home

Hi, I loved the music, the food and the people of Daphne!!!!!!  It was a well-planned festival. IT WAS A LOT OF FUN!!!!!!!!!

Message: Our second trip to this great festival. You are doing an amazing job getting great talent for such a young festival. Keep it up! (Thanks for "Big Hat"--he's great!)

Message: Looking forward to it. I am a member with the Mystic Order of Gators (MOGs) in the parade! Thanks for doing this each year!

Message: Keep doing what you have been doing - it gets better each year -

Message: I have been at the Daphne festival all three years. I really loved the addition of the outdoor tent and the free bands playing outside - especially because the weather was beautiful.

Message: I like it, the line up was good, and the out side stage was a good addition.

Message: Great bands. We brought two newbies to Zydeco with us. So glad we have this fest down here. Thanks

Message: I enjoyed the 2007 Zydeco Festival so much. Looking forward to 2008.

Hi Sandra, it was so nice to meet you & attend your wonderful Zydeco festival! This was the most comfortable (dance lessons, bathrooms, food/drink, A/C, & good dance floors!) festival that I've been to, and I've been to a lot of them!...

All in all, it was an EXCELLENT festival and you should be very proud of yourself. - Jan DeCosmo

Well - YOU DONE GOOD, KIDDO!!!!! We had a ball!! What a great time, great food, great entertainment - the dance floor was superb!!!....

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU (and on and on and on) PLEASE PLEASE let's do this again next year ----

laissez les bon temps ruler

LOVE TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAD A HAND IN THIS ~~~~~ Wonderful!!! VERY WELL DONE, ALL OF YOU!!!

Marie DiTullo (and I can speak for all of us from Birmingham and Huntsville and Atlanta who came)

Sandra,

I want to congratulate and thank you for the outstanding Zydeco Music Festival! My wife Mary Ann and I thoroughly enjoyed the event on Saturday afternoon and evening, and a bunch of our friends from around Birmingham were equally impressed. We loved the band line-up and the facility was ideal for enjoying the music while dancing. I know that the wood dance floor was appreciated by lots of folks. Mary Ann commented that someone spent a lot of effort decorating for this event, too. Naturally, it is very nice in the summer to have air-conditioning, in addition to good food and drink nearby, and real rest rooms.

I feel certain that many of us would like to return next year if the festival becomes an annual event. We had some friends who could not make it this time, but wished they could have…

Best Regards,
John Krupsky

wanted to extend my compliments to the Daphne Civic Center for organizing and putting on a superb Zydeco dance festival. You had dancers from Birmingham, Huntsville, Atlanta, Memphis, Arkansas, Mississippi and, of course, Louisiana.

In going to these festivals around the country, we, as dancers, are seldom fortunate enough to get inside, air conditioned dance halls with wooden dance floor and clean restrooms. The music lineup was excellent and the food was authentic and delicious. Some of the best I've ever experienced at a festival.

What more can I say except "See ya next year".

bob eberhart
birmingham, al

Dear Ms. Morse,

Sorry to be so late, but I wanted you to know how much fun I had at the Gulf Coast Zydeco festival! I was there Friday night-a family emergency Saturday came up and I had to go to Georgia! We had another couple from Montgomery with us who stayed for Saturday and they had a ball as well. I hope this gets to be an annual event.

As I am sure you have learned, there is a 'community' of Cajun/zydeco dancers from all over the country. I saw friends from Birmingham, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana-one of the Zydeco Posse was from Arizona! That has got to be good for Daphne to bring people to the area for such a positive experience.

Here's hoping you will do it again next year! Please call on me to help 'spread the word' in the dance community if you do it again.

Sonny Barksdale
Bama Backdoor Cajuns
Montgomery, Al

Hi:

First, I want to say thank you for the fine job you and your staff did in bringing this event to your facility. The set-up of the rooms was great and the line up of bands was fantastic. As a dancer, I really appreciate the wooden dance floor. I hope the donations for drinks worked out well; it was another feature that really made us feel welcome and we tried to contribute in an appropriate way. I am from Birmingham and I'm estimating that we had a group of at least 30 dancers there. I didn't hear anything negative from any of them.

As far as suggestions for next year(and I hope that you do this again next year), if you can release the line up of bands and their tentative schedule a little earlier, I believe you can attract dancers from all across the country. Having attended festivals from California to Fort Lauderdale, I can tell you we have a devoted Zydeco dance group who will go anywhere to dance!! But they do tend to plan ahead, so the more lead time you can give, the better.

You have a great facility, friendly staff, and a "destination" location close to the beach. I hope you will continue to build this festival and invite us dancers to come again.

Thanks,
Janet Keasler
Pinson, AL