Cajun Certainties - Music & Real Estate – Out To Lunch

Megan Constantin sits in for Christiaan Mader on this edition of Out to Lunch Acadiana.

Megan Constantin sits in for Christiaan Mader, hosting Out to Lunch at Tsunami Sushi in downtown Lafayette

When I say the name “Jourdan Thibodeaux…” You’re thinking of a musician. He’s hard to miss on stage at a festival as a fiddler and frontman for Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rôdailleurs. But Jourdan is also a business owner. In Henderson Swamp outside Breaux Bridge, Jourdan and his partner Scott LaGrange own and operate Cypress Cove Landing — a marina, dance hall, restaurant, bait shop, and alligator hunt outfitter.

Jourdan Thibodeaux who you might know as a musician, is also an entrepreneur and Co-Owner of Cypress Cove, a cultural hub aimed at authenticity. “If I had to walk into one more building that was all brand new stuff and all fake cypress and looking at a mardi gras mask one more time I was gonna lose my mind. If it’s July and you still have Mardi Gras beads up, I kind of hate you.”

Born on Cypress Island, Jourdan was raised speaking French by his grandmother, self-taught on a pawn shop fiddle. Everything he does is a kind of cultural advocacy. So you’re probably not surprised that he thinks of Cypress Cove Landing as a cultural hub. And a hub it certainly is. Cypress Cove offers boat slips, houseboat rentals, guided alligator hunts, fishing, and weekly Cajun dances that regularly draw five to six hundred people. The venue also hosts music tour groups through SOKO Music Tours. It’s deliberately family friendly — all ages, all parts of the property.

For Jourdan, it’s a place that exists because he got tired of watching authentic Cajun culture get replaced by a commercial version of it. Cypress Cove is a mission driven kind of entrepreneurship. But, as Jourdan will tell you, that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Cypress Cove employs ten people, and Jourdan puts whatever the business earns back into the operation and the community.

Beau Bourque, Founder and President of Beacon Realty, belives what sets Acadiana apart from the rest of the country is our unique joint belief in work/life balance. “I’m going to have a successful business AND have fun with my family and friends.”

Real estate broker Beau Bourque, has always wanted to run something of his own. He grew up in New Iberia, studied business at UL Lafayette, and came out of school looking for work with an entrepreneurial edge. He found it selling beer and liquor for Crescent Crown Distributing — out front, making things happen. Then real estate called.

Beaux joined a commercial team at Van Eaton Romero in 2011, built a niche in mobile home parks and industrial properties, and in 2020 launched Beacon Realty — his own commercial brokerage in Lafayette.

Beacon serves local and national clients. It completes an average of a transaction every couple of weeks, which is impressive for a company that, so far, runs lean. Beau has brought on a second commercial agent and sees room to grow to five or six. About eight out of ten deals come through online leads, though Beau still makes at least an hour of calls every day and mails letters to prospective clients. The fundamentals, he’ll tell you, don’t go out of style.