Accordion player/vocalist Kermit Venable and his four-piece band, the Beau Bassin Cajun Band, are one of the New Orlean's best-kept musical secrets. Outside of a 1981 tour of Europe and Japan as part of the cast of Labor of Love, a Japanese-American musical about rice farming, Venable (born January 3, 1944 in Lafayette, LA) has rarely been heard outside of his native state. Venable and the Beau Bassin Cajun Band, however, have been attracting enthusiastic crowds to their four nights a week performances at New Orleans restaurant Michauls for the past six years. Affectionately c...