"Could be straight out of the Louisiana swamps! Great energy, great sound and big crowds. You will love them!"
- Jamie McKew: Festival Director, Port Fairy Folk Festival,

"sounds so authentic you'd swear they hailed from South Louisiana!"
- Al Hensley, Rhythms Magazine.

"The Hog Stompin' Zydegators, one of my favourite party bands playing the music of Louisiana."
- Hugo T. Armstrong: Festival Director (until 2003), Queenscliff Music Festival,

"Rip roaring party music at its best and different to most"
- Andrew Tucker, Sunshine Coast Daily Music Critic.

”saw you at the Port Fairy Folky and wow I’m just another smiling fan now xxx love your work boys!”
– Realene , crowd member Port Fairy Folk Festival 2011 (Posted on facebook)

The Hog Stompin’ Zydegators were formed through their love of Zydeco, Swampy Blues & up there cranking music from the swamplands of Louisiana.
Influences include Clifton Chenier, (The King of Zydeco), Stanley Dural Jnr (Buck Wheat Zydeco), Australia’s own Psycho Zydeco and Zydeco Jump. Original music has a high priority with The Hog Stompin’ Zydegators to express where they’re coming from and where they’re heading.

The Hog Stompin’ Zydegators began performing in pubs late in 2001, but it wasn't to long before the band burst onto the festival scene. In fact that happened within the first 12 months of the band forming when it played its first Port Fairy Folk Festival in 2002, just seven months after its first gig!
Wasting no time at all, they launched their self titled debut CD which went on to be rated in the top 200 blues and roots albums of the year by Queensland music critic Andrew Tucker.

Their debut CD was also described as "standing among this country’s leading lights in a highly specialised music form” by Rhythms Magazine Australia in June 2003.
The Zydegators became festival favourites at the Port Fairy Folk Festival returning to play in 2004, 05, 06, 07, 08, 2010 and also in 2011 where they released their latest album Other festival appearances included the Summer in the City Festival (Warrnambool) in 2002. The (Warrnambool) Wunta Festival in 2003. The 2008 Gnatannwarr Multicultural Festival (Warrnambool), Queenscliff Music Festival in 02, 03 and 2004. The band also played at the Apollo Bay Music Festival in 2003 among many other festivals over the years.

Later CD releases include “Henry's Sawmill Road” 2003, Roar @ The Wine Bar, Port Fairy Folk Festival 2004 (live) and“Corn Soup” 2005 both studio albums also received national reviews. The most recent 5th album (Snakes & Ladders) came about after a highly successful performance at the 2010 Port Fairy Folk Festival where the band stripped right back to its roots performing the great zydeco songs on which the band made a name for itself in the beginning.

The band’s latest album"Snake and ladders 10 years of the Hog Stompin' Zydegators" was released at the 2011 Port Fairy Folk Festival and is a compilation of most of the band’s original material to date as well as some choice live recordings from the recent past.
The album was released in combination with The Hog Stompin’ Zydegators 10th year anniversary as a celebration of 10 years of great times, great songs and great gigs the band has played to date and you can be guaranteed of plenty more to come!