One of Northern California’s main Cajun/Zydeco bands over the past two decades, the women-led Tee Fee Swamp Boogie has a reputation for playing infectious, happy dance music that mixes as much highly charged electric blues as Cajun roots into its shows, and tops it off with rich vocal harmonies. The high-energy band began in 1992 when Annie Marie Howard Byrd, inspired by zydeco bandleader Queen Ida, gathered other women musicians together (including Queen Ida’s daughter, Tee Fee’s original rubboard player) to play their own versions of Louisiana zydeco and Cajun, blues from Louisiana, Texas, and California, and even songs from the Caribbean. The name Tee Fee, taken from Clifton Chenier’s song “Hey Tee Fee,” comes from the French “petite filles,” or little girls. Along with singer-fiddler-accordionist Byrd, Tee Fee today is rubboard player and singer Maureen Coyle, drummer-singer Kelvin Dixon, guitarist Kevin Suto, and bass player and singer Diane Dutra.