What better way to celebrate 12th Night than with authentic Cajun music, good food, and local friends? Grab your family and ...
(AP) Members of the Cajun band T’Monde are young, but they like their music old. The band of 20-somethings opened the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Friday with century-old, fiddle-heavy Cajun ...
Along with Jason Frey in Lagniappe, Travis Matte was an integral part of the outstanding À la Vieille Manière album that notched several CFMA Awards in 2001. That was Matte’s last totally trad Cajun ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole heritage takes center stage this weekend when the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks a half-century of honoring and celebrating the culture through ...
Marc Savoy is a Louisiana legend not only in Eunice but around the world. He has dedicated his life to preserving the Cajun culture through making instruments, holding jam sessions and maintaining a ...
Every Sunday for the past 25 years and 10 months, Cajun singer and songwriter Ivy Dugas left his home in Vinton at 8:30 a.m. and headed east on Interstate 10 for the one-hour and 40-minute drive to ...
Tradition runs deep in Louisiana, but there's always room for rediscovering the old and making way for the new in the Cajun music of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys. Outtakes caught up with Riley ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Cajun and ...