Jennings, LA - The historic Strand Theater in Jennings will host Louisiana's premier Cajun fiddle competition on November 1, featuring multiple age categories and $3,400 in prize money. The 9th Annual ...

Louisiana French music is most associated with the Fiddle. These days, Louisiana French music is infused with the sounds of several key instruments, including the guitar, the accordion, and more. But ...

JENNINGS, La. (KPLC) - If you’re a fan of Cajun music, then make your way down to the Battle of The Bows Cajun fiddle contest where players of all ages come together to share a bond of Cajun culture ...

JENNINGS, La. — Registration is open for the seventh annual “Battle of the Bows” Cajun Fiddle Competition. The competition is open to all Cajun-style fiddle playing. This year’s event will be held ...

Born in Church Point in 1929, Ellis Vanicor's Cajun sound would become indelibly linked with a little community smack in the middle of Jennings and Lake Charles — Lacassine. A self-taught fiddler, ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A great way to get people together is through music, and that is exactly what Battle of the Bows accomplished. Battle of the Bows is a competition that is meant to spread ...

Imagine going to a Rolling Stones show, making your way to the stage and ordering up your favorite chestnut from "Exile on Main Street." Good luck with that; Mick and the boys aren't exactly in the ...

In last year’s Wheeler Opera House performance, Louisiana’s Beausoleil played its Cajun fiddle music with few twists. But on “Gitane Cajun,” purportedly an homage to a trio of deceased Louisiana ...

Sometimes it seems as if the Cajun tradition is America’s favorite cultural spice. Naturally, some of that has to do with the way Louisiana French cooking has bubbled over from local crab boils and ...

The leader of the Hackberry Ramblers for more than six decades, Luderin Darbone was a fine fiddle player and, more importantly, one of the great innovators in Cajun music. Today, both the music and ...