The 1960s had to be an exciting time for Cajun music. Even though it hadn’t reached hipster status yet, its dancehalls were thriving, a scene held together by dedicated musicians keeping their ...

The long-running Cajun dance hall and restaurant Mulate’s will soon reopen, though it will take a little longer to get the fiddles, accordions and dancers back in the equation. The restaurant has been ...

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 ...

Following Cajun supergroup sextet High Performance’s blueprint of releasing two live CDs from the same 2008 performance, spin-off quartet 4Horses adheres to same formula. Live at La Poussiere – Part ...

It seems improbable, but it's true. L'Angelus, a brother and two sisters from Lafayette, La., who play Cajun music with Irish roots, got their start singing with their mother at the Urban Stampede in ...

A dance floor is a place of joy, where people have a chance to do more than listen to music — they can really experience it, adding their own creativity to the infectious beats that fill the air ...

Cajun dance music, courtesy of BeauSoleil, the world’s foremost Cajun band, will be heard Nov. 4 in Mayo Civic Center auditorium. The Riverside Live! concert will be set up to allow for dancing on the ...

Bruce Daigrepont is a gifted singer, master accordionist and composer of songs that have already become classics, not only within the Cajun tradition but in Canada’s French-speaking Maritime Provinces ...

Southwest Louisiana temporarily relocates to Uptown New Orleans this weekend for the fourth Cajun/Zydeco Dance Fest at Tipitina's, with two full days of live music and dance contests. Geno Delafose ...

Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - The Sulphur Regional Library held free Cajun Dance lessons. “I had actually done a Cajun Line Dance tutorial on our YouTube and it got so many likes that I got pressured into ...

She and her husband, Joe, recorded the first commercial recording of Cajun music ever made, giving voice to French-speaking Louisiana. By William Grimes This article is part of Overlooked, a series of ...