When most people picture Mardi Gras, they think of parades, beads, and Louisiana's Most Famed Street, a vibrant adult playground of unique entertainment. In rural Louisiana, however, smaller cities ...
A $100,000 Smithsonian grant is helping Festivals Acadiens add a sixth stage exploring the sounds that shaped Cajun and Zydeco music.
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 ...
On Sunday’s episode of 60 MINUTES, correspondent Jon Wertheim visited southwest Louisiana, where the sounds of Cajun and Zydeco music – long the soundtrack in this singular pocket of America – are ...
Two hours west of New Orleans, the town of Opelousas is one of the best places to experience this irresistibly toe-tapping music genre created by Louisiana’s Black Creole community. Zydeco, a music ...
The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band has been playing together since 1977. The band includes husband and wife Marc and Ann Savoy, on accordion and guitar respectively, and Michael Doucet of Beausoleil on ...
When "60 Minutes" came to the Lafayette area last fall to film a segment on Cajun and zydeco music, they were confronted with the energy of a thriving cultural scene. CBS correspondent Jon Wertheim ...
The Ozark Folk Center State Park will host a “Louisiana Saturday Night” music show featuring Cajun and zydeco music trio, the ...
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, ...
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 ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Environmental portraits of Cajun musicians, often taken in their homes, usually showing them with their instruments, typically accordions, violins ...