photos
photo by: john patrick adams (click to open/download)

photo by: jesse lalonde

photo by: alyce labry

articles
THE CORNER NEWS
Auburn, AL - August 10, 2008 - read article

OFFBEAT MAGAZINE
New Orleans , LA - June 2008 - read article

COUNTRY ROADS MAGAZINE
Baton Rouge , LA - May 2008 - read article

OFFBEAT MAGAZINE
New Orleans , LA - September 2007 - read article

TIMES OF ACADIANA
Lafayette, LA - August 22, 2007 - read article


quotes
"The Figs have taken a completely different tack by cutting their own path. The Figs’ shows are filled with lovely harmonies and a sense of being delightfully out of phase with modernity."
-Alex V. Cook, COUNTRY ROADS MAGAZINE
Baton Rouge, LA

"On Cross that Bridge, they recorded one of the most haunting songs of the year."
- Nick Pittman, OFFBEAT MAGAZINE | New Orelans, LA

"From blues to rockabilly to straight-up old-timey and haunting a capella, these ladies make the vintage stuff sound fresh and the new stuff sound retro."
- Sharon Arms Doucet, AUTHOR | Lafayette, LA

"The Figs can be haunting, uplifting and shimmy-inducing all in the same evening."
-Tim Landry, TIMES OF ACADIANA | Lafayette, LA

"The Figs, a six-piece outta Lafayette, Louisiana are a bit like what would happen if The Pipettes decided to wear flowery as opposed to polka-dotted dresses, traded in their keyboards for banjos and were just generally more Fig-like. The sassy sextet stomp their feet and bat their eyelashes as they hoot, holler and coo their own interpretations of Louisiana roots rock."
-Alexis Swerdoff, PAPER MAGAZINE | New York, NY

"In the great musical orchard of Acadiana, The Figs bloom on a tree scarcely plucked: vintage string mountain music. The members of the female sextet (decked out like city-going country ladies of the 1920s) each sing backing harmonies and switch up lead vocal duties. Between old time swing, country weeping and sassy takes on both traditional tunes and similaroriginals, the Figs take sounds like that of the "O Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack and add their own grit and spit - a sweet yet strong concoction."
-Nick Pittman, THE INDEPENDENT | Lafayette, LA

"With the girls decked out in modest dresses, each of The Figs' live shows acts as a throwback to equally modest times. It's all girls. It's dresses. It's roots music laced with sugar-sweet harmonies. "
-Tim Landry, TIMES OF ACADIANA | Lafayette, LA

"If there are three things in this world I like, it is women, banjos and ukuleles, and The Figs present all three with the charm of a county fair, their harmonies clear as a church bell."
-Alex V. Cook, 225 Magazine | Baton Rouge, LA

"This Acadiana female sextet makes sweet music out of vintage mountain sounds. Ukulele, banjo and guitar are the instrumental underpinnings for the group's formidable vocal talents; it's members alternate lead and harmony vocals for an ever-changing tapestry of voices and textures."    
- THE INDEPENDENT | Lafayette, LA

ALBUM ART click images to download high res cover

posters
full color | 11"x17" (click to open/download)

sound chart


selected appearances
Festival International de Louisiane (2007, 08) | Lafayette, LA
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (2008) | New Orleans, LA
Suwannee Springfest (2008) | Live Oak, FL
Tipitina's | New Orleans, LA
Kentuck Festival of the Arts (2008) | Northport, AL
South Louisiana Blackpot Festival (2006, 07, 08) | Lafayette, LA
Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival (2008) | Breaux Bridge, LA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art | New Orleans, LA
Luna Lounge | New York, NY
Springwater Supper Club | Nashville, TN
The Basement | Nashville, TN
Jack of the Wood | Asheville, NC
Boone Saloon | Boone, NC
Flying Monkey Arts Center | Huntsville, AL
Blue Moon Saloon | Lafayette, LA
Grant Street Dancehall | Lafayette, LA
307 Jazz & Blues Club | Lafayette, LA
The Maple Leaf | New Orleans, LA
DBA | New Orleans, LA
Chelsea's Café | Baton Rouge, LA

we've performed with the
following fine folks...
Irma Thomas
Red Stick Ramblers
Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys
Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars
The Hacienda Brothers
Pine Hill Haints
Pine Leaf Boys
Jeff & Vida Band
Gill Landry
Feufollet
Christabel & the Jons
The Bluerunners
Mario Matteoli
Ian Thomas
Bonsoir, Catin
Dire Wood