The CBS News show “60 Minutes” recently proclaimed Jourdan Thibodeaux “Cajun music’s equivalent of a rock star,” saying he has become “something of a global ambassador for Cajun country and its way of ...

One thousand five hundred miles northeast of Lafayette is one of the nation’s newest Cajun and zydeco festivals. The Bayou Boogie, three days of dancing and camping in the rolling Connecticut hills, ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Hundreds of people came out to enjoy the Cajun bands and danced along to the tunes of the 38th annual Cajun Music and Food Festival. Chloe Craner says she is the youngest ...

Cajun music is rooted in the songs and fiddle tunes of the Acadians—French speakers who migrated from France to Canada in the seventeenth century, and from Canada to Louisiana in the eighteenth ...

SHEBOYGAN – John Michael Kohler Arts Center has released the 10-date lineup for the 11th season of the Levitt AMP Sheboygan Music Series. The free weekly summer concert series kicks off June 26 with ...

Louisiana has always been a state that dances to its own beat. That beat might be a jazz brunch in Lake Charles, Cajun dance at a traditional pig roast in Baton Rouge, or swamp pop blasting out a ...

Jamey Bearb grew up with strict accordion rules. His dad, Cajun musician Ricky Bearb, demanded the accordion, handmade by pioneer builder Marc Savoy, sit a precise position in its storage box. Even ...

DUMMERSTON — Louisiana takes on Vermont this Saturday, from 1 to 4 p.m., at the 2nd Annual Cajun Festival at Kampfires Campground, Inn and Entertainment. Three live bands take the stage at an all ...

Seventy-three years ago today, Hank Williams was atop multiple country charts with a song that became an international favorite.

This weekend, the French Food Festival will mark half a century of Cajun culture and unforgettable food. See the full ...

In the post-Fort Spokane apocalypse, bands found themselves with fewer places than ever to play, fans had one less club to patronize and things looked bleak. Then, out of the void, a voice was heard.

When Council for the Development of French in Louisiana Chairman James Domengeaux and a group of academics, activists and musicians decided to throw a concert celebrating Cajun music and culture in ...