Blake Miller & the Old-Fashioned Aces are breathing new life into an old sound. It’s traditional Cajun music in a traditional setting, but more than that, it’s a powerhouse trio having fun.  Whether they appear as an acoustic trio or a full electric band, finer musicians playing Cajun music cannot be found. In a world where it seems everyone is continually stretching the boundaries of Louisiana French music, the Aces nest comfortably inside the well worn tracks of Cajun Music. From old fiddle tunes, to classic dance floor packers, to bilingual country classics, their music is comfort food for the Cajun music fan. 

Blake Miller

Blake Miller comes from a multi-generational musical family in Iota, Louisiana.  He learned to play all the instruments traditionally found on a Cajun bandstand through his grandpa (world-renowned accordion maker Larry Miller of Bon Cajun Accordions), father, uncles, the late local accordion player Kenneth Thibodeaux, jam sessions at D.I.’s Cajun Restaurant, as well as the Augusta Cajun Week in Elkins, West Virginia.  He started playing regular dances at the age of 14, and at 17, he began bringing his love of Louisiana French Music around the world with bands such as the Red Stick Ramblers, Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole, and Pine Leaf Boys among others.  Today, you can find him with the Revelers, with his wife Amelia Biere in the Old-Fashioned Aces, Balfa Toujours, the Daiquiri Queens, the Lafayette Rhythm Devils, and you never know who else.  You can hear him on the radio as well with his bilingual public radio show called La Lou Jukebox on 88.7 fm, KRVS.org.  He also loves to teach and pass on the music he loves through private lessons, at various music camps, and even at his alma mater UL Lafayette.

Amelia Biere

Originally from a small town in Wisconsin, Amelia was exposed to many forms of traditional music at an early age from her father and his music community. After moving to Minneapolis for school and attending the regular Cajun dances, she picked up the guitar. A few years after being mentored by musicians of the Twin City scene and attending Cajun music camps in Louisiana and West Virginia, she decided to move to the source of it all - Lafayette, LA. There, her and her partner Blake Miller founded the Old-Fashioned Aces in 2017. Since then she’s won CFMA’s Female Vocalist of the Year, become a regular on the Lafayette music scene and most recently joined bands including Chère Elise and the Luke Huval Band as well as a country band called Grampa. 

AJ Srubas

AJ Srubas is originally from Green Bay, WI where he grew up playing Irish music in a family band. After graduating high school, he went to study fiddle in Ireland for a few months but upon returning home he was introduced to old-time music when his older brother started to learn claw hammer banjo. Before he knew it, he was completely hooked. AJ now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has been playing old-time music for the last decade. He plays old-time fiddle in Steam Machine and Cajun fiddle and pedal steel guitar in the New Riverside Ramblers. When not playing music, he is an apprenticing violin bow maker and organizer for The Monday Night Square Dance and other Minnesota festivals. AJ teaches private lessons and has taught at the Central Rockies Old-time Music Association's summer festival, Berkeley Old-time Music Gathering and many Minnesota Bluegrass and Old-time Music Association events.