About Us
5th Avenue was conceived around 1982 by Tom Landry, Tracy
Menard, Brent Guidry and Errol
Girouard. Brent, Tommy and
Tracy are the 3 original members remaining in the
group today. The band played local and regional night clubs and
many high school proms during their
infancy. They grew in popularity due to
their delivery of the music. They wanted
each song to sound just like the record so
they tried to get the synthesizers and
vocals to sound exact - and they did. Throughout the years many local
musicians played with 5th Avenue during their 8+ year run including Tony
Goulas, Steve Fullington, Charlene Howard,
Danny Williams, Tony Ardoin, Errol Girourd,
Marcus Elizondo and Jim Sides. Then came high energy music in
1988 of Stevie B, Expose’, Dino, and
many more. Charlotte Elizondo joined
the band and added the female
persona for that era of music. Also,
joining the group during that time
was Jim O’ Brien, John Couvillion and Larry Max. The band then
broke up in 1990. All members continued to play music locally
and Tom moved to Hawaii for 7 years. Tracy went on to play with
many local bands including Zachary Richard, Wayne Toups, City Limits, Louisiana Red & Richard
Lebouef just to name a few. Both Tom and Tracy got married and Tom soon missed home and
returned with his wife Johanna and 4 children. In 2006, local
radio personality CJ from KTDY had an idea to have a “Cedar’s
Reunion”. Cedars was a night club in Franklin Louisiana where
5th Avenue started their journey in the early 80’s, and we were
asked to put the band back together for one show. After much
thought Tom and Tracy decided to put that band back together
with the original members Tom and Tracy, Brent Guidry, Marcus Elizondo and Errol Girourd.
Our original sound man, Whitney Menard passed away in 2006 of cancer. That night sparked
the fire to put 5th Avenue back together and the rest is history. Currently, 5th Avenue is
comprised of Tom Landry, Tracy Menard, Bryan Perrin and Brent Guidry and returning member
Tony Goulas. The band is still playing all the old school favorites along with cajun, zydeco,
swamp pop and jitterbug. Visit our contact page and make 5th Avenue part of your special
event.